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An Indian singer has organized a flatulence competition in an effort to “normalize the process of farting.” Yatin Sangoi, 48, says that “farting is one of the healthiest human body functions,” and people weren’t embarrassed by it until recently. “Now they’ve become all sophisticated and consider it gross,” Sangoi said. In the competition, 200 entrants will “showcase their talent” to a panel of judges, with cash prizes awarded in three categories: “longest,” “loudest,” and “most musical” farts. A Norwegian man who was fishing at a depth of 2,600 feet reeled in a ratfish—a rarely seen, bulbouseyed species dating to 300 million years ago. Oscar Lundahl, 19, had four hooks a half mile deep in the water in search of blue halibut when he “felt something quite big” on the line and slowly brought it to the surface. “I had never seen anything like it before,” he said. “It just looked weird, a bit dinosaurlike.” He later pan-fried the ratfish in butter. “It is a bit like cod,” he said, “but tastier.” A pastor of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster opened a local government meeting in Alaska with a prayer while wearing a colander on his head. “I’m called to invoke the power of the true inebriated creator of the universe, the drunken tolerator of all the lesser and more recent gods, and maintainer of gravity here on earth,” said “Pastafarian” pastor Barrett Fletcher, ending his prayer with “Ramen.” The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was formed as a satire on other religions and has won court rulings that it must be treated equally. Some politicians, Fletcher said, “seem to feel they can’t do the work without being overseen by a higher authority.”