A group of Canadian skiers have tried to break a world record with a simultaneous somersault completed while holding hands on the slopes.

A total of 30 skiers gathered at Mont St. Sauveur, north of Montreal, where they practiced their back flips and prepared to link up for one, big trick they hoped would glide them into the record book, according to Sky News.

On the first attempt, the skiers told Sky News an uneven jump caused the line to break. But on the second jump, the skiers flipped together, creating a wave effect with their airborne bodies, and landing with hands still connected.

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Then, naturally, they celebrated with poutine.

You can see the skiers from an angle below the jump in the following video.

Mikael Kingsbury, a world cup winner in Moguls skiing, organized the event and Tweeted about it on Sunday.

We bet the world record !! 30 back flip hand in hand! Thanks to Mont St-Sauveur!

— Mikael Kingsbury

I g..I go..I got a kitty!

All this big dog wants is a kitten and he's not ashamed to tell you all about it.

With the help of Canadian voice actor Andrew Grantham and what was certainly some teasing with an enticing toy or a treat off camera, Clyde the dog showed the world just how much he really loves kittens in a video uploaded over the weekend.

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The video already has more than 1.3 million views, with comments calling the conversation between an owner and his ecstatic dog adorable.

The owner teases the dog by saying he looked at the snakes, mice and parrots among a whole list of other animals that are not kittens. He can't contain his excitement at the mention of a cat.

The video was created as promotion for the campaign Pets Add Life, intended to promote responsible pet ownership.

Andrew Grantham quit his job to make videos like this one full-time, according to the Globe and Mail, and he has raised thousands of dollars

It has giant sinkholes, bizarre crimes and now Florida can add another item to its list of claims for the title of the weirdest state — an infestation of giant snails that can grow to the size of rats.

Reuters reported that authorities have caught more than 117,000 of the huge African snails, an invasive species that can chew through plaster, in the Miami area since September of 2011.

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Residents are in for a slimy mess. More snails will emerge as spring unfolds, a spokesperson from the U.S. Department of Agriculture told the news agency. If enough of the creatures thrive, they could chew through a whole range of plant life, leave their goo behind on walls and become a crunching hazard for pedestrians on sidewalks. Yuck.

Florida-dwellers ought to keep an eye on their ceilings, too, because these snails consider stucco a tasty snack, according to Reuters.

"Scientists consider the giant African snail, Lissachatina fulica, to

An SPCA field officer named Jessica Watson told the newspaper that customers would order an extra patty for the cat, or toss him a chicken nugget as they drove past.Anyone needing more evidence that McDonald's food can turn you into a junk-food-junky, behold Frankie the Kiwi cat, who lived off McNuggets and fries for more than a year before he was rescued and put through a kitty version of food rehab, according to the Waikato Times.

The cat's owners had abandoned him when he was a kitten, according to the story, so he wandered into a McDonald's parking lot in the suburb of Frankton, where he became a local celebrity and earned the nickname Frankie.

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An SPCA field officer named Jessica Watson told the newspaper that customers would order an extra patty for the cat, or toss him a chicken nugget as they drove past.

However, Frankie's McDiet was faring badly for his feline metabolism. The SPCA officer said she scooped him up one day, worried that he looked swollen and matted.

Bad as it was for him, the fast-food addict kitty didn't want to give up his greasy diet, according to the story. His foster mother told

Thanks to Edgar Allan Poe, that dark prince of American letters, high school students across the country have visualized what it would be like to have someone bury you alive behind a wall, brick by brick, like the unfortunate sod in The Cask of Amontillado.

Poe’s story of calculated revenge, an English class staple, has made drywall the prime suspects in many a crime caper since its 1846 publication.

Now, walls can add property theft to their long list of crimes against humanity.

As the Sun reports, Richard Lane lost his brown leather wallet back in 1978 after a squash game at a local community centre.

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The British man suspected that his wallet, which contained around £15 ($23CAD), his driver’s licence, gym and union membership cards and a payment plan for a television set, had been stolen.

He would be right. He just had no idea that the culprit was an inanimate object used to support roofs and ceilings: the perfect

From a moose walking into a B.C. grocery store to a man climbing three storeys on the outside of a burning building to save girl, we've seen some amazing videos this week. Here are some of our favourites:

1. Catching two fish at once

A man was out in a boat in Lake Austin in Texas when he saw one large-mouth bass trying to eat another similarly sized large-mouth bass whole. The one fish only had the other fish's head in its mouth. Both fish seem to still be alive and are trying to swim off, but aren't having much luck. The man just picks them both up with his hand and puts them in the boat.

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2. Moose wanders through B.C. grocery store

Grocery shopping is usually uneventful, but not for the folks at a Safeway in Smithers, B.C. this past Wednesday. A moose strolled into the store apparently just hoping to smell the roses after following customers in through the electronic doors. The moose was

A generous fisherman in Hawaii shared his catch with a shark last weekend and captured the little picnic on video.

He didn't have much choice but to share his tuna when the shark leaped out of the water and tried to take a bite out of the fish that was hooked on his line.

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The man was Isaac Brumaghim, according to Hawaii News Now, an "extreme kayak fisherman" who seemed startled by the sharks sudden leap. Brumaghim swore but then he still tried to reel in the fish, ever the determined fisherman.

In the end, the shark swam under the boat and ate the fish, he told the news outlet.

A marine biologist told Hawaii News Now the shark may have been drawn to the hooked fish if it was bleeding.

I feel compelled to include a public safety warning: dangling food before a shark and then trying to take it back again is not advisable. But it does make for a popular YouTube video, as this one has been viewed nearly two million times since it was

Few words can describe the popularity of a video posted this week in which a man comically impersonates animal eating habits by banging his head into the table, burrowing beneath it and wearing a pink unitard.

"How Animals Eat Their Food" is childish, to be sure, but there's something about watching a person smash his face repeatedly into his dinner plate — forcefully — that's undeniably entertaining, if only because the scene makes no sense.

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For example, why are they drinking out of sippy cups?

But the numbers speak for themselves.

Since the video was posted on April 8, it's been viewed more than 14 million times, mostly within the last two days.

Two people sit at a table made from cardboard boxes covered by a table cloth, with classical music playing quietly in the background. Then one of them turns mad and starts impersonating animals, such as a cow, lizard and kangaroo.

One of the most