The World Toe Wrestling Federation has announced that the 2021 championship matches will go ahead in August in Derbyshire, England, (whew!) and organizers are looking for people who want to dip their toes in the water of pro competition. Toe wrestling, the Northern Echo reported, takes place sitting down and barefoot, with the competitors' toes linked. But matches are no tiptoe through the tulips: Ben "Total Destruction" Woodroffe, who is ranked second in the world (and had his toenails surgically removed to give him a competitive edge), had his ankle snapped in two places by 16-time champion Alan "Nasty" Nash — during a practice session. "It's a people's sport; there are no levels or qualifiers, and anyone can join," Woodroffe said encouragingly.

Cue Alfred Hitchcock

There may be just 500 California condors left in the world, but about 20 of them are meeting up at the home of Cinda Mickols in Tehachapi, Calif. Mickols' daughter, Seana Quintero, said the imposing birds showed up at the beginning of May, the Associated Press reported, and have trashed her mother's deck. They've knocked over plants, scratched railings and ruined a spa cover and decorative flags. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service suggested "harmless hazing" methods to disperse the protected birds, such as shouting and clapping, or spraying water.

Not a crime scene

Matt Perkins and his husband were in the midst of having a pool installed at their new home in Las Vegas on April 26 when police and crime scene investigators showed up. The pool builders had unearthed bones buried about 5 feet below the surface, the Associated Press reported. The bones weren't human, but were from a horse or other large mammal. More important, they were not recent: Nevada Science Center Research Director Joshua Bonde said they're between 6,000 and 14,000 years old, dating to Earth's most recent Ice Age. The area was once a watering spot for wildlife in the Mojave Desert. Bonde said U.S. laws give ownership of fossils to property owners; Perkins is deciding how best to preserve the antiquities.

What a stinker

Here's one way to keep your neighbors at a distance: Build a wall made of cow dung. In Lodi Township, Mich., one farmer did just that, constructing a 250-foot-long wall of manure after a property dispute with Wayne Lambarth. The wall generates an unpleasant stench, Lambarth told Fox News, but the anonymous farmer who built it denies it's a "poop wall." "It's a compost fence," he said. Officials in the area have said nothing can be done about it because it is on private property.

Bridge over troubled road

Traffic outside a school in China's Henan province was so bad that one student's mother, Ms. Meng, spent $154,000 having two footbridges built over the road so kids could cross safely. In addition, the school is located on lower ground, and students had to walk through puddles outside the building. "The water will spill over the stairs where schoolchildren stand to wait for their parents like little birds," Meng said, according to Oddity Central. Meng did not tell her son that she funded the footbridges. "I just did what I can afford to do. You can't take money with you after death."

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