Teacher Deb Harris could hardly believe what she was reading to her fourth-grade class. Whales in Lake Michigan?

But that’s what it said in her “Michigan Studies Weekly,” a newspaper distributed to 462 teachers statewide.

Harris called Utah-based Studies Weekly Inc., which puts out the teaching aid, but an editor stood behind the story.

“I’ve lived here all my life – there are no whales in Lake Michigan,” Harris told the editor.

The company later retracted its article with an explanation that it got hoaxed by a Web joke.

Four college football players at Sacramento State University could be disciplined after spraying themselves with nonstick cooking oil to prevent opponents from tackling them.

The players were accused of applying the substance to their uniforms during a recent game against the University of Montana. Montana won 31-24.

Sacramento State athletic director Terry Wanless said the coaching staff had no clue what the players were up to.

“This can create a lot of humor for us,” he said. “In fact, I think the charges against us won’t stick.”

A customer at a Swedish restaurant lost his appetite when he discovered the eatery’s toilet seats were being washed in its dishwasher alongside the kitchen utensils.

The man entered the rest room when he noticed that all the toilet seats were gone.

When he asked a waiter about the missing seats, the employee took them out of a dishwasher where they had been cleaned together with trays and kitchen utensils.

The employee tried to reassure the customer by saying that the freshly washed toilet seat would be warm to sit on.

That’s when the man rushed out of the restaurant in disgust.

Japanese police were forced to close part of a major Tokyo highway when they tried to apprehend traumatized pigs from fleeing the scene of a car accident.

The mishap occurred in a tunnel when a truck carrying 34 pigs rammed a car stuck in a traffic jam, setting off a chain-reaction pile-up.

The impact threw nine pigs to the ground. Six died from shock, and it took three hours for cops to nab the remaining three.