Dan Brown’s bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code has become notorious for being dumped in thrift stores by the thousands, so British artist David Shrigley decided to act. He collected 6,000 copies of the book over 6 years, pulped them, and turned them into copies of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ominous or ingenious? 

A tourist in California’s Death Valley National Park made headlines after they crashed their campervan while trying to avoid an animal who had wandered into the middle of the road. But it wasn’t a bear – it was a tarantula. The spider “walked away unscathed,” the park said. 

A Norwegian blue cheese has been named the best in the world at the World Cheese Awards. The Nidelven Blå from cheesemaker Gangstad Gårdsysteri (pronunciation suggestions warmly welcomed…) was described as having a “real dense fudginess” and “wine-like characteristics”. Umm yum…