Weird BUT true

A Massachusetts man paddled his way into the Guinness World Records book by embarking on the longest voyage ever taken — in a pumpkin.

“It was crazy,” said Todd Sandstrum, after traveling 3¹/₂ miles down the Taunton River in the 817pound gourd. “The last couple hundred feet was pretty emotional.”

Guinness had set a threemile minimum on the firstofits kind endeavor.

Meanwhile, Guinness has posted video of a man from India breaking the record for fastest time to type using only one’s nose.

Beating the previous mark by more than a second, Vinod Kumar Chaudhary, of New Delhi typed, “Guinness world records have challenged me to type this sentence using my nose in the fastest time” in just 46.3 seconds.

A weedloving superhero who stands for truth, justice and the marijuana way has been pushing for pot legalization in Ohio.

Known to college kids as Buddie, the caped cannabis crusader has been visiting campuses across the state and asking students to vote in favor of legalizing reefer in a November referendum.

A British man is auctioning off a chunk of extremely rare whale vomit for $10,000 in the world’s first auction of its kind.

The waxlike ambergris was discovered by a dog walker on a beach in Wales.

The excretion, which is highly valued in the perfumetrading industry, is produced in the intestines of sperm whales to protect them from the sharp beaks of squid they have eaten. What a bright idea. University of Edinburgh scientists have injected chicks with a fluorescent green protein that makes their beaks and feet glow in the dark.

The fowls were genetically modified with a “decoy” gene to help experts monitor how susceptible they are to bird flu.