Every year in Brooklyn, New York, competitors must eat as many hot dogs as they can within 10 minutes. One of the most popular of the many 'extreme eating' competitions in North America, this one is held annually on the 4th of July. The reigning champion is currently Joey Chestnut, who in 2013 won ...
This is possibly one of the most unpleasant contests on the planet. Competitors have to snorkel through the Waen Rhydd peat bog in Wales, UK – a dense mass of dirty water, mud, insects and flora. The championship has been running since 1976. Competitors are permitted to wear flippers, and they must ...
The World Sauna Championships was a popular Finnish event, and competitors came from all over the globe to compete. The contest is self-explanatory: competitors must sit in the sauna for as long as possible, enduring increasingly uncomfortable temperatures. The starting temperature for the men's ...
The contest is held annually in Devon, England. Of course, nettles are not harmful to eat in the slightest. Nettle soup is a classic countryside dish – but the nettles used in soup are cooked thoroughly, removing their sting. In this contest, the nettles are ingested raw, meaning that they sting ...
Kim Jong-un born 8 January 1983. Is the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea. The problem with North Korea is that the opaque nature of virtually all of their international relationships has created a wall between what we know and what actually goes on inside the ...
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is the leader of Equatorial Guinea, one of the world's poorest countries, but is also paradoxically one of the world's wealthiest heads of state, with an estimated net worth of $600 million. For perspective, Barack Obama has a net worth of about $11.8 million. ...
Afghanistan's first and (thus far) only president after the American invasion and occupation from 2001, Hamid Karzai will soon be stepping down and relinquishing power to the winner of the upcoming elections. At the beginning of his 13-year reign, Afghanistan had been the battleground for a brief ...
Islam Karimov is the first and, thus far, only president in the history of Uzbekistan. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Uzbekistan achieved independence for the first time since 1924. Karimov, who was leader of the territory while it was still under Soviet occupation, achieved a ...
