WEIRD BUT TRUE
Talk about a pee brain.
Michael Ray Hunter, 37, of Kentucky, needed to relieve himself last Wednesday night, so he pulled into a parking lot.
Unfortunately, it was the parking lot for the West Virginia State Police headquarters in South Charleston, where Hunter proceeded to urinate in front of Trooper J.S. Crane.
And Hunter’s No. 1 idea led Crane to a truck where he found a marijuana pipe.
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Rhode Island is the only state that still celebrates Victory Day, when Japan ended its World War II fight in 1945 – Aug. 14.
While officials there have fought to get rid of the holiday on the grounds it’s discriminatory, many vets still want it.
One state senator has tried over the years to change the holiday to Rhode Island Veterans Day or Peace and Remembrance Day, but with no luck. “It was absolutely a no-winner,” the lawmaker said. “I did not have support, period.”
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Far out. Scientists will meet this week in Prague to decide what the true definition of a planet is and whether Pluto and Xena, a possible 10th planet, should be included in that definition.
“It’s time we have a definition,” said Alan Stern, who heads the space-science division of the Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio. “It’s embarrassing to the public that we as astronomers don’t have one.”
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Korean-American speed-eating champ Sonya Thomas notched another record in her belt yesterday after devouring 17 Chinese-style lotus-seed buns in 12 minutes in Hong Kong.
“I still feel hungry,” said Thomas after winning $2,500 and setting her 28th record, including eating 552 oysters in 10 minutes and 11 pounds of cheesecake in nine minutes.
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Pass the chocolate-covered ant, please.
A new delicacy from Colombia left home last year when a businessman exported over 880 pounds of inch-long “hormiga culona” – or “big-butt ant queen” – so that the treat can be dipped in Belgian chocolate and sold at posh London shops.
While stomach-churning to some, Colombians call the little crawler everything from nature’s Viagra to a cancer stopper.

