Things We Saw Today: This 9-Year-Old Chops Trees With Her Fists

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In the below Instagram video, Evnika Saadvakass shows off her ferocious boxing skills by demolishing a tree. Now 9 years old, she’s apparently been training since she was three, and she’s ready to strike fear in hearts worldwide. Save this one for some Monday motivation tomorrow. (via Deadspin, image via screengrab)

  • Mark your calendars! According to calculations by astronomers at Michigan’s Calvin College, two stars about 1,800 light years away have recently collided. As they merge, the spectacular brightness of that event, called a red nova, should reach Earth at some point in 2022. (via Blastr, image via NASA/Hubble/STScI)
  • Watch Chewie rip off Unkar Plutt’s arm and toss it across the room in this surprisingly graphic deleted scene from The Force Awakens. (via io9)
  • The Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) marathon, a bi-annual charity gaming marathon, just raised $2.2 million dollars for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Twice a year (winter and summer), AGDQ streams speedruns of video games to raise money for charity. This year’s money will go toward cancer prevention and early detection. (Via Kotaku)
  • As Hidden Figures continues to work its magic at the box office, learn about the extraordinary life of Katherine Johnson, one of the “human computers” the movie is about.
  • The latest trailer for DC’s Legends of Tomorrow teases the return of Rip Hunter. (via Blastr)
  • Graphic designer Newt Cloninger-Clements created some amazingly detailed mockups of horror movie Pop-Tarts, from Nosferatu to Evil Dead to Nightmare on Elm Street.

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