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Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

Officials in Pakistan plunked down $9 million on a government building renovation that included goldplated toilets.

The Governor House Murree is now complete with the glittery new johns, which sit next to gold-plated toilet-paper dispensers.

Critics said the expenditur­e stinks, considerin­g that millions of people in the country are too poor to afford access to loos.

When technology fails, ewe can do it!

Denmark’s Faroe Islands have enlisted sheep to collect Google Street View images in difficult-to-reach locations.

Cars can’t navigate the rugged terrain of the steep and rocky Norwegian Sea isles, so the islands’ tourism board attached solar-powered, 360degree cameras onto the backs of the creatures.

“It’s shear brilliance!” a Google rep quipped.

A Canadian brewery and a Vermont pub are locking horns in a legal battle.

Moosehead Breweries in New Brunswick is suing the Hop’n Moose Brewing Co. in Rutland, claiming that customers will confuse their similar names and antler-adorned logos.

A luxury Italian clothing-design firm is hawking dresses made from seethrough dry-cleaning bags for $735 a pop.

Moschino’s “sheer overlay dress” will hit the runway as part of the company’s trash-inspired fall and winter 2017 collection.

The garments, made of transparen­t polyester, proclaim: “Free pickup and delivery.”

A Florida man used a surfboard as a getaway vehicle after he roughed up a fellow beachgoer, cops said.

Justice Cureton, 20, of Vero Beach, chucked a can of beer at a man in Wabasso Beach Park, hitting him in the face, police said.

When cops showed up, he dashed into the ocean and paddled away on his board — but was later arrested at home, according to police.

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