The Cheese Rolling competition takes place annually on the last Monday of May (Credit: Dave Farrance/ CC-BY-SA-3.0/ Wikimedia Commons)

Every year on the last Monday of May, thousands of people from around the world gather at Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire, England, for the Cheese Rolling competition. This unusual contest requires participants to run, or as is usually the case, tumble, down the steep hill to try to catch an 8-pound (3.6-kg) rolling wheel of cheese.