Weird BUT true

Those were some really hot tortilla chips.

Several cases of the discarded chips “spontaneously combusted” on two nights outside an Austin, Texas, factory, firefighters said.

The factory was trying out a new way to handle waste that, “suffice it to say, didn’t work out so well,” the fire department said.

A British soccer star is the world’s best — at the children’s game Hungry Hungry Hippos.

Manchester United defender Axel Tuanzebe, 20, broke a Guinness World Record by feeding all of the board’s marbles to his hippos in a lightning-fast 17.36 seconds.

Worst. Date. Ever. Kelton Griffin of Memphis, Tenn., is accused of stealing his date’s car — and using it to take another woman out to see a movie.

If that weren’t bad enough, after the two-timing thief was busted at the Summer Drive-In, the first woman said the second date was her godsister.

This is one hard-core grandma.

A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor is finding catharsis by writing, recording and performing — in a death-metal band.

Upstate New Yorker Inge Ginsberg didn’t even know what death metal was until she was an octogenarian but now can’t stop rocking out with her band TritoneKings.

Get an A/C! Instead of cooling off subway cars in 95-degree heat, Vienna’s public-transit authorities are handing out deodorant for smelly riders.

More than 14,000 of the gifts were grabbed this week amid a stifling wave.

“This was primarily intended as a consolation,” said Daniel Amman, a spokesman for the Wiener Linien public transport company.

“High temperatures can make one more aware of odors.”