Columbia bodybuilder has a 20-inch neck

Rubiel ‘Neckzilla’ Mosquera’s main asset entertains and distracts social media users

Rubiel Mosquera aka ‘Neckzilla’, is an IFBB Elite Pro bodybuilder from Colombia known primarily for the size of his muscular neck, which reportedly measures 20 inches in circumference.

Rubiel Mosquera has a pretty impressive physique, but just one look at his neck is enough to explain his popular nickname, Neckzilla. It really is something to behold, and while he doesn’t hold the official title of the thickest neck in bodybuilding, there are many who believe he truly has the most muscular neck in the sport. 

Seen from some angles, it seems like his traps stretch all the way up to his jawline, but it’s actually his neck that is simply a lot more muscular than most. It is so muscular, in fact, that some bodybuilding fans have expressed concerns that the size of Neckzilla’s neck distracts judges at bodybuilding competitions causing them to miss some of his other assets.

Although he doesn’t focus too much on his neck when training, the bodybuilder is fully aware of his main asset and always shows off his neck on social media. For example, he once measured his neck to prove that it was thicker than that of rival bodybuilder Larry Wheels. The measuring tape showed over 52 cm in circumference, which is more than the average.

Boy math

UK man stops using money to live a ‘natural, minimal’ life

Mark Boyle, aka The Moneyless Man, gave up on using money in 2008 and has been living a money-free lifestyle ever since. Along the way, he also shunned technology and adopted a more ‘natural’ life.

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Having graduated college with a degree in business and economics, Mark Boyle quickly found a good-paying job at an organic food company in Bristol, UK. That had been his plan for years—get a good job and buy all the material things that society (himself included) associated with success.

But everything changed one night in 2007, during a friendly philosophising session with a friend over a glass of Merlot on his houseboat. They were discussing world problems and how to best tackle them to actually make a difference. That’s when he realised that money was at the root of most problems, and remembered Gandhi’s famous quote: Be the change you want to see in the world.

After that, Mark sold his expensive houseboat, moved into an old caravan that someone donated to him, and began his money-free existence. The first few months were tough, because he needed to replace comforts he had become accustomed to with things he could source for free, from nature.

Dil ‘manga’ milk

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According to research conducted by Seki Milk, a milk producer and processor in Japan’s Gifu Prefecture, around 65 per cent of students were not finishing their milk bottles at lunch. To motivate children to drink their milk, the company partnered with a manga studio to produce an original manga series and print it on its transparent milk bottles.

Vaginas on the loose

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Hundreds of white plaster casts of vaginas, believed to have been en route to an art gallery, tumbled onto a road in Irkutsk, Russia, last month after a traffic crash. Video footage shot by a passerby shows a trail of broken vaginas leading up to the back of a truck. Vaginal art was pioneered by British sculptor Jamie McCartney, with his 26-foot work, The Great Wall of Vagina.

New in the list of restricted items: Poop

Federal customs agents put a dent in the plans of an Iowa woman who wanted to make jewellery from giraffe faeces she picked up on a trip to Kenya and brought back to the US in her luggage. The unidentified woman revealed the box of faeces when her belongings were inspected upon arriving at the Minneapolis airport.

Halloween just got scarier

The San Francisco Bay area has received numerous shocking reports and photos of spiders falling out of the sky and sticking to surfaces as they reach land. Residents have noticed globs of white webbing containing baby spiders that apparently need a new place to live through the process of “ballooning”. “They are strands of silk that spiderlings, baby spiders, use to disperse,” said Fred Larabee, an assistant professor of biology at San Jose State University.

Too bored to get it on

Female frogs fake their deaths to avoid sexual interactions, a new study has found. To the surprise of researchers from the Natural History Museum of Berlin, the female frogs have tactics for escape. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science, used video footage to observe the mating behaviour of common frogs. Of the 54 females clasped in an embrace, 33 per cent played dead—or, in scientific terms, experienced “tonic immobility”.

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