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.
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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!