You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

ALL KINDS OF HOBBIES, STRANGE OR OTHERWISE
 
 
�       If you like extreme sports and are picky about wear­ing neat­ly pressed
clothes, then extreme iron­ing may be the hob­by for you. Extreme
ironers iron their clothes on moun­tain tops and at the bot­tom of lakes
– and even on surf­boards!
 
�       Insect fight­ing is a pop­u­lar pas­time in parts of Asia. Crick­et fight­ing
is the thing in Chi­na, while the Japan­ese pre­fer to fight bee­tles.
 
�            Quid­ditch is a real-life game/sport that was tak­en from the fic­tion­al
Har­ry Pot­ter fran­chise. Real quid­ditch was first played in 2005 in
Mid­dle­bury, Ver­mont.
 
�            A bib­lio­phile is a per­son who loves to read and col­lect books. The
book is derived from the Greek words bib­lio “book” and phile “love.”
 
�            The ancient Assyr­i­ans loved to hunt lions. Some sculp­ture reliefs
from the palace of King Ashur­ba­n­i­pal (669–631 BCE) depict the king
hunt­ing lions, even with his bare hands.
 
�            Geo­caching is where peo­ple use GPS to locate a small prize buried
some­where out­doors. The first geo­caching event took place on May 3,
2000, in Beaver­creek, Ore­gon.
 
�       The sport of wife-car­ry­ing is big in Fin­land. In this activ­i­ty, men race
through an obsta­cle course while car­ry­ing a female team­mate. 
 
�            More than three mil­lion chess boards are sold every year in the US
alone, mak­ing it the best-sell­ing board game of all time. Not bad for a
game that dates back to 1200!
 
�            Noodling is cat­fish fish­ing with your bare hands. Due to dan­gers,
such as drown­ing, noodling is ille­gal in most US states.
 
�            Play­ing with mud­balls is con­sid­ered an art­form in Japan. Hikaru
doro­dan­go is a Japan­ese art form in which earth and water are
mold­ed, and then care­ful­ly pol­ished to cre­ate a del­i­cate shiny sphere,
resem­bling a bil­liard ball
 
�            J.C. Payne took knit­ting to a whole new lev­el by cre­at­ing
the Guin­ness Book of World Record’s largest ball of twine. It mea­sures
41.5 feet in cir­cum­fer­ence. There are mul­ti­ple claims to the world’s
biggest ball of twine record in the Unit­ed States. As of 2014, the ball
of twine with the largest cir­cum­fer­ence is locat­ed in Cawk­er City,
Kansas
 
�            The res­i­dents of Cas­tril­lo de Mur­cia, Spain cel­e­brate the feast of
Cor­pus Christi by jump­ing over babies. The fes­ti­val, which is to ward
off the dev­il, began in 1620.
 
�       You have to be a nerd and a jock to chess­box. As the name indi­cates,
the sport involves play­ing chess and box­ing. Chess­box­ers must have
com­pet­ed in 50 ama­teur box­ing match­es and have an Elo (chess)
rat­ing of 1600.
 
�            When North Car­oli­na der­ma­tol­o­gist Man­fred Roth­stein wasn’t
work­ing, he was col­lect­ing back scratch­ers. In 2008 he became the
world record hold­er with 675 back scratch­ers from 71 dif­fer­ent
coun­tries.
 
�            The largest ice fish­ing con­test in the world is held on Gull Lake in
Min­neso­ta every Jan­u­ary. The con­test attracts more than 15,000
peo­ple every year.
 
�            The world’s first board game was the ancient Egypt­ian game of
senet. Although sev­er­al senet boards have been dis­cov­ered, none of
them came with direc­tions!
 
�            The most expen­sive board game ever sold was a 23-carat gold
Monop­oly game made by the jew­el­er, Sid­ney Mobell. The gold
Monop­oly board sold for a cool $2 mil­lion!
 
�       French­man David Belle is con­sid­ered the father of the sport/activity,
park­our. Park­our involves a vari­ety of ath­let­ic skills and is heav­i­ly
influ­enced by mil­i­tary obsta­cle course run­ning.
 
�            “Ran­do­nau­ti­ca” is an app that sup­pos­ed­ly ran­dom­ly gen­er­ates local
coor­di­nates for users to check out their area. In late 2020, the
coor­di­nates sent one group to the loca­tion of two corpses. The app’s
founder claims it was pure­ly a coin­ci­dence.
 
�            Amer­i­can tro­phy hunters took near­ly 43% of their tro­phies from
Cana­da from 2005 to 2014. The sec­ond most pop­u­lar tro­phy ori­gin
coun­try was South Africa, with 32%.
 
�       In 2021, a new “hob­by” start­ed on Tik­Tok called “devi­ous licks.” It
con­sist­ed of crimes being com­mit­ted and then post­ed on Tik­Tok. Yes,
plen­ty of arrests were made!