Did you know that mobile phone throwing is a national sport in Finland?

Most of us, attentive and caring smartphone users, go to great lengths to protect our gadgets from harm. We buy armor cases and tempered glass screen protectors. We grip our smartphones with the force of an angered Darth Vader choke-holding a guilty imperial officer. And yet, here are the fine and ever so slightly withdrawn people from Finland doing something completely counter-intuitive — turning phone destruction into competitive sports! We’re not even joking, welcome to the Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships! Since 2000, the town of Savonlinna in the southeast of Finland has been the …

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