A mountain lion amazingly strolled more than 1,500 miles from the Black Hills of North Dakota to Connecticut — where its record-setting cat walk tragically ended in an encounter with an SUV on a highway near New Haven.

The 6-year-old male — the first spotted in Connecticut in more than a century — traveled twice the distance that any other mountain lion is known to have covered.

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Speaking of intrepid felines . . .

Princess, an 8-week-old kitten who lives in Scotland, spent an hour spinning around in a washing machine after sneaking in when nobody was looking.

Princess is fine — and cleaner than ever.

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A Florida man faces charges of attacking his girlfriend — with a grilled-cheese sandwich.

The snack-down happened when a furious Todd Harvey of Daytona Beach allegedly mashed the sandwich into Amanda Fulford’s face.

Hungry for revenge, she responded by biting his tongue, cops said.

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If you’re Dr. Jeffrey Lang, be very, very careful next year.

A mysterious tombstone has been discovered in a Los Angeles park reading, “Loving Husband, Father and Physician Jeffrey Lang, 1976-2012.”

No doctor with that name is registered with the California medical board.

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A photographer in Siberia had a great idea for making a few extra rubles — he took his pet crocodile to a popular local lake and offered tourists a chance to pose with it.

But the 6-foot reptile escaped into the water, sending hundreds of terrified swimmers sprinting for the shore.

“It was quite a young crocodile and there was plenty of food in the water — swimmers,” said a cop who helped capture it. “We didn’t want him to grow any bigger.”