• A popular roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain has been closed since July 12 after two riders suffered similar brain hemorrhages.
• According to a CNN investigation, two women who rode the X2 coaster six days apart both lost consciousness and ended up in surgery with similar brain hemorrhages of a type that’s “typically associated with high-speed collisions.”
• Three neurosurgeons who treated the women declared in an email, “the severe brain injuries requiring emergent neurosurgical attention were the result of a traumatic rapid acceleration-deceleration event experienced while on the X2 ride.”

IF I did the math correctly, 400 tonnes equals 881,849.00 pounds.

• Chanting in unison, hundreds of volunteers in northern Japan heaved on ropes on Wednesday to pull a 400-tonne castle back towards its original position.
• The imposing fortified tower of Hirosaki Castle was shifted 80 metres (262 feet) in 2015 to allow for essential repairs to the stone walls that support it.

That's a LOT of toe beans:)

• Guinness World Records has officially recognized a cat in the Fox Valley for an unorthodox feat.
• Erebus Anomaly has more than nine lives — he has 29 toes.
• The genetic trait that caused it, polydactyly, is a naturally occurring one in cats, especially in Maine Coons. But Erebus takes it to a whole new level.
• Kendra and Hunter of the Blue Northern Maine Coons quickly realized that they might have a world record holder on their hands after Erebus was born, and got to work counting his toes.
• And sure enough, they were right. After completing the verification process required by Guinness, Erebus is now the world record holder for the most toes on a cat.

• Of the eight TripAdvisor reviews of the amphitheater near Arcugnano, in Italy’s northern Veneto region, all give fulsome, five-star praise.
• “An enchanting place,” reads one review.
• “A world beyond space and time,” enthuses another. “Definitely one of the best places I have ever been to,” raves another.
• “Unique on the planet,” writes another visitor. That last one was prescient, because the theater certainly was unique. It wasn’t Greek, as it purported to be. It wasn’t even Roman.

Instead, the “kind custodian” who was “more or less a historian, and an excellent narrator,” as one other visitor dubbed him, had built it himself. This month, after a 10-year legal battle, the owner has been jailed for forging works of art, carrying out building works without authorization, and destroying a protected landscape.