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Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

“This is a stickup . . . and here’s my name and address.”

A note-passing Cleveland bank robber made it easy for cops when he inadverten­tly provided his ID informatio­n, officials said.

Michael Harrell, 54, allegedly passed the note to a teller after writing it on the back of a DMV document that had his personal info, according to the FBI.

Meet the Thomas Edison of robots.

An artificial-intelligen­ce machine that designed two cutting-edge inventions should be allowed score patents in its name — despite not being human, a team of academics say.

The so-called “Dabus AI” — credited for coming up with a special food container and an innovative new light — was rejected by the European Patent Office.

Two professors at the University of Surrey in England are fighting the agency, calling its policy “outdated.”

They’re baaaaahhd! Hundreds of goats made a mad dash through a suburban Seattle neighborho­od — no kidding!

They scrambled past a broken fence on a hillside property where they had been enlisted to munch weeds, and hoofed it through the Issaquah Highlands area.

The on-the-lam herd of 200 was corralled with the help of a herding dog.

He’s saving the rainforest, one backward step at a time.

An Indonesian man is on a mission to raise awareness about protecting “the earth’s lungs” by walking backwards for 500 miles.

Medi Bastoni, 43, is making the journey from East Java to Jakarta with the hope of convincing President Joko Widodo to make the environmen­t a priority.

Best bust of the day, hands down.

A Minnesota motorist was texting a pal about the state’s new “hands-free” texting law when she was hit with a ticket for breaking it.

The law had gone into effect just hours earlier.

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