New Zealand’s Maateiwarangi ‘The Beast’ Heta-Morris was beaten by Oz’s Lachlan ‘The Anvil’ Adair for the Oceanic Arm Wrestling Title on Saturday. But it’s not the hyper-masculine pursuit you might think – Adair says it’s a way to “unload of life’s stresses and troubles” and support each other as mates. Aww… 

Spoiler alert for 5 billion years from now: scientists have made the first observation of a planet being swallowed by a star, the likely fate of Earth. Star ZTF SLRN-2020’s degustation of a gas planet​ took 6-12 years and was followed by an outburst of light and a lingering stream of space dust. Sounds brutal… 

Why were hundreds of kilos of soggy pasta dumped along a riverbank in New Jersey? According to locals, the mystery pasta mounds came from a cleanout of a huge pandemic stockpile of pasta leaving some to ask if the perp would be going to penne-tentiary…