20 quirkiest photos from 2019 you probably missed

This photo depicts day one of the San Diego Comic-Con. Daniel Humm of Alamogordo, New Mexico “doesn’t believe in fairies,” but dressed up as Robin Williams’ Peter Pan from the movie Hook. A “real-life” Tinkerbell pulls on his bowtie as she tries to get him to return to Neverland.

A man wearing a Spider-Man costume attends a screening of the movie Spider-Man: Far From Home at the QFX Cinemas Nepal. The movie’s distributor in Nepal brought in the Spider-Man performer for promotional purposes. It was also a nostalgic moment for the theatre which first opened with another release from the Spider-Man franchise.

Four-year-old Dexter looks up at a 6-metre tall sculpture of the human body. The sculpture by British artist Damien Hirst is on display for three months in Leeds, England as part of the free-to-see Yorkshire Sculpture International – the United Kingdom’s biggest sculpture festival of the year.

A man rides his bush-camouflaged bike during the annual Harley-Davidson Open Road Fest near Felsoors, Hungary. The festival offers a range of concerts and events all focused around a love of Harley-Davidsons and the open road.

Edd China, former co-host of the Discovery Channel show Wheeler Dealers from 2003-2017, takes his street-legal sofa for a ride through Henley on Thames, England. The famed mechanic/inventor holds many Guinness World Records titles including fastest toilet and mobile bed.

Here are 15 new world records that were broken in 2019.

Chen San-yuan, 70, uses 29 mobile phones mounted on his bike and two handheld mobile phones to catch Pokemon in New Taipei City, Taiwan. Chen’s grandson taught him how to play Pokemon Go in 2016. Now Chen spends all his spare time catching Pokemon on streets or in parks, sometimes staying outside until the wee hours of the morning!

Here are the pros and cons of playing computer video games. 

British backpacker Lee Smith worships at The David Hasselhoff Museum (yes, it’s a real thing!) in Berlin, Germany. The shrine dedicated to the life and works of “The Hoff” can be found in the basement of a hostel. The memorabilia can be seen 24 hours a day and is free to the public.

A woman takes her rabbit through a course of hurdles at a rabbit jumping show in Caslav, Czech Republic. If the time runs out before the course is finished, the rabbit is disqualified. Rabbit jumping began in Sweden in the early 1970s. The rules are based on horse jumping rules that have been adjusted for the smaller animals.

Farmer Gwenan Jones in Sussex, UK dresses her lambs in colourful sweaters. According to Jones, the bright coats and scent of detergent have discouraged foxes from preying on the baby animals. Who wore it better, the lamb or this baby goat?

A young boy at a children’s hospital in Poland watches as men in superhero costumes clean the windows of his room, making a dull and noisy task friendly and exciting for the young patients.

Sign up here to get Reader’s Digest’s favourite stories straight to your inbox!

Source: RD.com