Weird BUT true

Talk about school spirits! A new neighborhood school in Chicago is slated to be built over what’s believed to be thousands of unmarked graves.

The $70 million project is in the beginning stages on the former grounds of the Cook County Poor House, where an estimated 38,000 indigents are believed to have been buried in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Construction workers are digging carefully not to destroy possible remains — which if found will be relocated, officials said. He cleaned up. A Missouri man found a $50,000 winning lottery ticket while tossing junk from his dusty truck.

Jason Jacobs, of Independence, had put the Powerball ticket in the console in January and forgot about it until finding it on March 25.

He and his wife scanned the ticket at a convenience store and learned they had scored 50 big ones.

A Washington, DC, woman was stunned to find a special green surprise in her kale — a “very dead” lizard between the leaves.

Grace Goldstein said she bought a bag of the greens at Trader Joe’s and spotted the lifeless stowaway while unloading her groceries.

The kale came in a bag that promised it was, “cut, cleaned and ready to cook.”

A dog saved a bear cub by leading his two-legged master to the starving animal.

Boomer, a 2-year-old black Lab, was hiking ahead of owner Marvin Owings in Saluda, NC, and suddenly started barking wildly.

Owings followed the pooch to the emaciated 4month-old cub, which vets then nursed back to health.

Two California kids were caught trying to get beer “Little Rascals”-style — with one sitting on the other’s shoulders, wrapped in a trench coat.

The youngsters tried to pull the trick outside a convenience store in Daly City, where they asked a shopper to buy them booze.