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NPR (Don Gonyea) - This English professor has run with the bulls in Spain for two decades

When Bill Hillmann was 19 years old, he read Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. That book inspired him to pursue two dreams: a career in literature and to run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain.

NYTIMES (Richard Goldstein) - Wally Funk, Who Set an Age Record for Space Travel, Dies at 87

As a young woman in the 1960s, she wasn’t allowed to become a NASA astronaut. She finally realized her long-held dream of flying in space as an octogenarian.

HUFFPOST - Sabastian Sawe Breaks Fabled 2-Hour Barrier In The Marathon To Shatter World Record By 65 Seconds

Sabastian Sawe of Kenya has become the first person to break the fabled 2-hour barrier in the marathon in a huge moment in sports history.

NPR (Ari Daniel) - These rock-climbing fish can shimmy up a 50-foot waterfall

New research from the Democratic Republic of Congo offers a behavioral and anatomical portrait of a species that can achieve surprising athletic feats.

HUFFPOST - Sugar The Surfing Dog, First Canine Inducted Into Surfer’s Hall Of Fame, Dies At 16

The five-time dog surfing world champion died Monday “in her daddy’s arms,” a post on her Instagram said.

WASHINGTONPOST (Kyle Melnick) - Pig who ‘talks’ using buttons gets Guinness World Record for his viral fame

Merlin, a miniature Vietnamese potbellied pig, was recognized by Guinness World Records for his large Instagram following

NYTIMES (Adeel Hassan) - How Did This Beloved Rock From Canada End Up in California?

Climbers have used the 70-pound rock, which they call Portable, to practice balancing and gripping. Months after it went missing, it was found 19 hours away.

AI:A beloved 70-pound climbing rock known as Portable has been recovered in California, months after it disappeared from British Columbia, Canada, where climbers had previously used the stone to practice balance and grip techniques.Open