New York Post

Weird BUT true

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He’ll have the carrot-infused vodka.

A horse trotted into a pub in England and sidled up to the bar.

Owners of the Oak Inn in Solent were stunned to spot the brown New Forest pony, minus his owner, inside the establishm­ent during Sunday dinner.

Ponies are raised on farms and often wander around freely in the area.

A teacher in Foshan, China, told her fifth-grade students to count 100 million grains of rice for homework — and steaming-mad parents say it was “torture.”

The math teacher said the assignment was supposed to encourage problem-solving skills.

She hoped they would count out 100 grains then multiply them based on weight. Only ten of her 40 students completed the assignment.

Any way you slice it, it’s worth the risk.

Roughly 2,300 people were hospitaliz­ed due to pizza-related injuries last year, according to data from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Burns, cuts and falls while eating, making or carrying it made up the majority of the boo-boos. By contrast, 49,000 people were injured by grooming products.

Teachers in Missouri are doing double takes over five sets of twin brothers in the same incoming class.

The siblings — the Greens, the Garretts, the Tootles, the Warns and the Joyces — said they are having a blast in the company of other twins at Rockhurst HS in Kansas City.

A Maine worker was busted embezzling more than $1.5 million worth of lobsters, according to a lawsuit.

Matthew Bellerose, of Scarboroug­h, allegedly set up a fake customer account while working at Sea Salt wholesale seafood company, owners of the business said in the suit.

The fishy employee allegedly sold the shellfish himself and pocketed the clams.

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