crazy sports
In this Finnish sport, men race through an obstacle course while carrying their female partners.
Wife Carrying
This "fruit" is famous for its delicious taste but is banned in many public places due to its "rotting trash" smell.
Durian
In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy famously says, "There's no place like..."
Home
This popular snack food was actually the first food ever intentionally cooked with microwaves.
Popcorn
This "sport" combines a slow-paced board game with a high-impact combat sport in alternating rounds.
Chess Boxing
Often called the "world's most expensive coffee," Kopi Luwak is made from beans partially digested by this animal.
Civet (or Civet Cat)
This 1994 film features a bench-sitting protagonist who compares life to a box of chocolates.
Forrest Gump
A group of these long-legged pink birds is known as a "flamboyance."
Flamingos
Originating in the UK, participants chase a 9lb wheel of Double Gloucester down a very steep hill
Cheese Rolling
This Swedish delicacy consists of fermented Baltic Sea herring and is notorious for its overwhelming odor.
urströmming
This is the first animated feature film ever to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Beauty and the Beast
This European country has a higher population of sheep than it does humans.
Iceland (or Wales/New Zealand)
This underwater version of a popular field sport uses a weighted puck and short sticks at the bottom of a pool.
Underwater Hockey
Casu Marzu is a traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese that contains thousands of live these.
Maggots
In The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader reveals he is the father of this protagonist
Luke Skywalker
Because they don't have stomachs, these "slow" sea creatures must eat constantly to stay alive.
Seahorses
In "Extreme" versions of this household chore, people take boards to remote locations like mountain peaks or forests.
Extreme Ironing
This Japanese pufferfish can be lethal if not prepared perfectly by a licensed chef due to its tetrodotoxin.
Fugu
This 1975 Spielberg thriller is credited with creating the "Summer Blockbuster" and making people afraid of the beach.
Jaws
In 1932, the Australian military "lost" a war against 20,000 of these large, flightless birds.
Emus