WEIRD BUT TRUE
Maybe pigs do fly.
Animal-rescue workers discovered a potbellied pig living with a pack of feral cats at Philadelphia International Airport.
It took six rescuers to corral the 150-pound beast, which they named Runway. They say the porker may have been someone’s pet who escaped or was abandoned.
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It might have been rain, sleet, gloom of night – or perhaps a mechanical glitch – that contributed to a Postal Service delivery snafu that took 47 years to correct.
An Ohio resident opened his mailbox to find a postcard mailed from Montana in 1962 and addressed to the previous tenant.
A USPS spokesman speculated that the card may have gotten stuck in some equipment or lost behind a mail chute.
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He’s claiming his fraternity hazing has left him in a permanent haze.
A 21-year-old man charged in a hit-and-run car crash in Kansas City says posttraumatic stress disorder from a frat hazing, where he was tied up and left in a dog cage, has hindered his ability to make proper decisions.
His lawyer says the defendant makes bad choices under stress.
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Is his spidey sense tingling?
A California paraplegic who’s used a wheelchair for 20 years was able to walk again after being bitten by a poisonous spider.
Doctors aren’t sure exactly how it happened but are calling his progress a miracle.
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Remember the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team?
Well, a Ghanaian citizen has qualified for the Winter Olympics – as a skier.
Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong was born in Scotland but raised in the African nation and never saw snow until age 28.
In the last five years, he’s become a top shusher, and he will hit the slopes for the Scottish team.

