Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Utah festival celebrates calves' testicles WOODRUFF, Utah, June 5 (UPI) -- A Utah festival honors the "Rocky Mountain oyster," the testicles of calves that have been gelded. Advertisement This year's Black Gold Cattle Co. Testicle Festival, which ended Saturday, served up hundreds of pounds of the featured specialty, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. The festival also includes rodeo events and a raffle to raise money for sick children. Kalon Downing, who founded the Black Gold Cattle Co. when he was 17, said he got the idea for the festival during a bout of homesickness. He was in Phoenix on a mission for the Church of Latter-Day Saints and found himself talking to a companion who was also a Utah cattleman about the joys of the branding and gelding season. "I had too much time on my hands, sitting in meetings," Downing told the Tribune. Advertisement The first festival was held a few months later in the spring of 2001. Since then, Downing has fended off repeated requests to remove the word "testicle" from the name. The festival has grown so much that Downing now buys his oysters from Salt Lake City slaughterhouses instead of picking them up from local ranches. Ohio man sets bowling record MIDDLETON, Ohio, June 5 (UPI) -- A Mason, Ohio, man has captured the Guinness record for bowling for the second time, knocking down pins for 102 hours, 1 minute and 25 seconds. Dave Wilson, 40, raised $13,000 for cancer research in accomplishing the feat in 481 games. The first thing he did afterward was drink a Guinness stout in celebration. The first time Wilson won the record, he rolled the ball for 64 hours and 22 minutes to win $7,100, but it was broken just five days later by a Canadian man. "It was unfinished business after having had the record for only five days last time," Wilson told the Cincinnati Enquirer. Wilson began his quest Tuesday and took one 15-minute break every eight hours. A Webcam logged his saga every 15 seconds. He also kept a blog, which at one time indicated he couldn't remember why he was holding a bowling ball. Advertisement Boy didn't believe it in Ripley book GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 5 (UPI) -- A sixth-grade Michigan youth didn't believe it when he read it takes light from the sun four minutes to reach Earth in Ripley's "Planet Eccentric!" So David Beerens of suburban Grand Rapids, Mich., pointed out the error to his teacher and wrote a letter to Ripley Entertainment, the Grand Rapids Press reported. "You should be proud of the fact that you were able to spot this, as it is something that slipped by all of our editors, Ripley Entertainment Executive Vice President Norm Deska wrote in response. "Also, out of the hundreds of thousands of books we sold, you are the only one that saw the mistake, and more impressively, took the time to let us know." So how long does it take light from the sun to reach the Earth? Believe it or not, it's 8.32 minutes. Corvette slams into crypt; driver dies SAN FRANCISCO, June 5 (UPI) -- Investigators say no caskets were damaged when a 1967 Corvette slammed into a crypt at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in San Francisco. The driver of the just-restored vehicle was killed, apparently in a race with a man driving a black Mercedes-Benz convertible, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. None of the mourners present was hurt in the Sunday morning incident. Advertisement Witnesses told police both vehicles were traveling at a high rate of speed and the Corvette failed to negotiate a turn. The Mercedes kept going after the crash. Police are looking for the driver to question him as a witness.
