Weird BUT true

It pays to leave work early — as well as being extremely lucky!

North Carolinian Bernice Jessup decided to stop at the Dublin Mini Mart when she got an early slide one day from her job at Smithfield Packing.

She bought three Quick Pick tickets for the Cash 5 drawing and hit the $100,000 jackpot.

He puckered up for his record-setting achievement.

An Idaho man set a Guinness World Record when he drank a liter of lemon juice through a straw in under 17 seconds.

David Rush emptied his glass of the sour stuff in 16.53 seconds, besting the previous mark of 17.12 seconds.

Now that’s snail mail. An Indiana woman was stunned when she recently received a letter her brother wrote and sent 52 years ago while serving in the Vietnam War.

Janice Tucker’s brother, William Lone, asked a fellow soldier to send it in 1968. But it showed up only this month.

The long-lost letter was not in the original envelope when it arrived, so why or how it got delayed remains a mystery.

Like ships passing in the night.

A 1,000-year-old Viking vessel has been found buried on the same Norwegian island where a ship of similar vintage was found six months earlier.

The More and Romsdal County Council said the eight-oared vessel measuring just under 40 feet long was found on the island of Edoya, 500 feet from the vessel discovered earlier.

This electric-powered plane has the Wright stuff.

The world’s largest such aircraft took off from a Washington state airstrip for its first flight, staying in the air for 28 minutes.

The eCaravan plane, a modified Cessna Caravan 208B, was created by engine company magniX and aerospace firm AeroTECt.