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YouTuber breaks Rubik's cube record while skydiving

A 23-year-old German YouTuber jumped out of a plane to break the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to solve a rotating puzzle cube while in freefall.

Tom Kopke, aka Tooleko on YouTube, solved his Rubik's cube in 23.333 seconds before opening his parachute over Mossel Bay, South Africa, in February.

He broke the previous record of 28.25 seconds, which was set by Australian Sam Sieracki in 2023.

"I first solved the Rubik's cube when I was 18 and practiced a lot back then. I even made a video attempting some crazy Rubik's cube challenges, where I also said that one day I would solve it while skydiving," Kopke told Guinness World Records.

He said the goal was put off for a while because he didn't have a skydiving license yet.

"I always wanted to learn skydiving because I have a lot more crazy skydiving videos planned, and I thought it would be really cool to start this journey with a clear goal in mind, which was to break the record," he said.

Kopke said he worried about dropping the cube in mid-fall.

"I practiced a lot with the cube in the air so I got used to it. The most dangerous part is actually the handover, kind of like in track and field where a lot of mistakes happen during the baton exchange," he said.

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Massive sea lion 'Chonkers' drawing crowds in San Francisco

Crowds are flocking to San Francisco's Pier 39 — including some from across the country — to catch a glimpse of a rare visitor to the city: a massive sea lion.

The Steller sea lion, dubbed Chonkers, has been seen lounging among the much smaller California sea lions on the docks in recent weeks.

Steller sea lions can grow up to 11 feet long and weigh as much as 2,500 pounds, making them about twice the size of California sea lions.

"They're so big because they dive deep and they swim in much colder waters than even here in San Francisco Bay," Sheila Chandler, the Pier 39 harbor master, told KGO-TV. "So they need all that blubber for sure."

She said Chonkers appears to be getting along well with his much smaller cousins.

"He's so much bigger. He's literally twice the size of the biggest California sea lion that you can see out there," she said. "And he's very mellow. It seems he's not that vocal from what we can see in here. And he doesn't have to go up against any of the others to prove who's dominant. It's sort of an implied 'yes.'"

Visitors have been gathering at the pier every day in the hopes of catching a glimpse of Chonkers.

"I saw on the news about Chonkers in Atlanta, Georgia, and I came all the way to San Francisco to see him," one visitor told CBS San Francisco.

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ored Man Confesses to Starting Forest Fire for His Own Amusement Rangers patrolling the Kaeng Hat Oi Forest, in Thailand’s Phitsanulok province, last Saturday, apprehended a suspicious young man, following repeated reports of fires in the area. The suspect was carrying a lighter and couldn’t offer a valid reason for his presence there, so he was taken in for questioning. At the police station, the 22-year-old man, identified only as Matina, eventually admitted to setting fires in Kaeng Hat Oi Forest, but offered a very bizarre reason for it. “I just wanted to have fun. I had nothing to do, so I started a fire to get forest rangers to put it out. I just acted out of recklessness,” the man casually said. Rangers transferred the suspect to the Chat Trakan Police Station for legal proceedings, where he was charged with damaging natural resources. The young arsonist remains in custody, but authorities have yet to announce the penalties he faces. Thailand is already battling numerous forest fires started by natural causes or human recklessness, but this is probably the first case of someone starting a forest fire for fun. House fires are a different matter entirely, though, as we have reported several cases of people setting homes on fire for their own entertainment.

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Deputy responding to animal call finds entire escaped farm

An Indiana sheriff's deputy responding to call about an animal in a roadway arrived to find an entire escaped farm — including chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese and goats.

The Grant County Sheriff's Office said Deputy Korporal responded last week to a report of an animal in traffic and arrived to find the goats and various birds had escaped from a nearby farm.

Body camera footage shared on social media shows Korporal herding all of the animals back into a gated area.

"Thankfully, no animals were harmed, and everything ended the way we like to see it — safely and without incident," the post said. "All of the animals were rounded up and put back where they belonged."

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