Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air. www.able.co.nz Copyright Able 2023 - Kia ora e hoa ma. Welcome to In Case You Missed It. Ko Tane toku ingoa. Time to tahuna te ahi with a look at what's been happening here in Aotearoa and overseas. Well, thankfully, the Hollywood writers' strike is finally over. (CHEERING, WHISTLES BLOW) Loads of popular shows will be back in production after Hollywood writers protested for nearly five months. Board members from their union have approved a tentative agreement with a coalition of Hollywood's biggest studios, streaming services and production companies. After the vote, they declared that the strike would be over and the writers would be free to start on scripts this week. Now, that is good news. It's also been an exciting week for NASA as a seven year journey to collect samples from an ancient asteroid named Bennu. ended in success. Currently orbiting the sun 81 million kilometres from Earth, Bennu is roughly the size of the Empire State Building and shaped like a spinning top. The first asteroid samples were fetched from deep space by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and parachuted into the Utah desert. The pebbles and dust inside represent the biggest haul from beyond the moon. The samples collected date back to the dawn of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago. That's crazy. Back here in Aotearoa, a fishing boat carrying thousands of litres of diesel has run aground in the Banks Peninsula near Otautahi. The boat is stranded in a spot which is home to blue penguins, hoiho, and seals. Authorities are hoping for good weather so that they can remove the fuel from the wreck. All of the crew from this vessel were rescued. And it's been a busy week for sea rescues with four crew members being airlifted off a sinking barge near Opotiki as well. - Time with pressure was on, but they did it very well and all credit to their skill. They pulled it off very efficiently. - More news from the moana in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. The sea life has been making itself at home on shore. A Department of Conservation marine ranger says seals have been popping up here, there and everywhere lately, with sightings on a central city beach, a train track and a seal pup was found sleeping on a home owner's doorstep. Less cute was the leopard seal which turned up on Freyberg Beach. A cordon was put up around it, and people were advised to stay well away, particularly from the bitey end. Now, this doesn't feel like that long ago, but this week marks an entire decade since recording artist Lorde released her debut studio album. - # And we'll never be royals. - # Royals. # - The record was a collaboration between Lorde and producer Joel Little and was described as a dream pop electronica and electro pop album. It was one of 2014's best selling albums. It was certified platinum in the UK, double platinum in Canada and triple platinum in Australia and the U.S., selling more than five million copies worldwide, making Lorde a millionaire before she even turned 17. Wow. Now, there's been some gnarly cold and flu viruses around this year, or you might occasionally suffer from hay fever, but I bet you'll be surprised to learn this about the humble sneeze. Take a look. Do you know how many muscles it takes to perform a sneeze? A lot. When the inside of your nose gets a tickle, a message is sent to a special part of your brain called the Sneeze Centre. And that sends a message to a big bunch of muscles that work together to create a sneeze. We use so many muscles when we sneeze, that sneezing is actually a pretty good workout. Muscles like the abdominal muscles, chest muscles, diaphragm, the muscles that control your vocal cords, plus the muscles in the back of your throat. Don't forget the eyelid muscles. Did you know that you always reflexively close your eyes when you sneeze and it's not true that your eyes will pop out if you sneeze with your eyes open and you never sneeze when you're asleep because the nerves that cause you to sneeze are also resting. A single sneeze can produce up to 40,000 droplets, which can travel 5m or more at up to 160km/h. This is why it's important to cover your mouth when you sneeze to stop the spread of germs. Did you know that you can actually hurt yourself by holding in a sneeze? Apparently trying to hold in a sneeze can cause broken blood vessels in the eyes, damaged blood vessels in the brain and ruptured eardrums. There's also something called 'ah-choo syndrome' that affects up to 35% of the population. It means they sneeze when they are suddenly exposed to bright light. Lots of people sneeze two or three times in a row, but the record for the longest sneeze in the world goes to a woman from England who sneezed continuously for 978 days. Who knew there was so much to learn about the humble sneeze? - Ah-choo! - Bless you. And lastly, today, they're usually fighting fires, responding to emergencies and saving lives, but occasionally, they're lighting up social media. Turangi's fire brigade, which has been serving its community since 1965, has become something of a sensation on TikTok, thanks to a string of viral videos. A Bentley parody video has since amassed more than one million views, and their videos collectively have more than 10 million views. - I get all the notifications on my phone and I'm like, I just can't believe that what we're doing is having such a wide reach. - Nice one, boys. Well, that's In Case You Missed It for this week. Thank you so much for joining us. We will be back same time, same place, next week. Have a good weekend. Hei kona.