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Goodbye, Columbus? A Change.org petition is calling for the city of Columbus, Ohio, to swap out its name amid controversy over depictions of the famous explorer Christopher Columbus.

The online petition calls for the city to be renamed Flavortown, in celebration of its culinary bona fides and one of its most famous natives, TV food connoisseur Guy Fieri.

They believe they’re top banana! Italian siblings Sebastiano and Selene Zanoni are laying claim to the Guinness World Record for heaviest cherry.

They said they were working on Sebastiano’s farm in Paese, Treviso, when they found a giant cherry in the orchard that’s 0.88 of an ounce, above the current record of 0.84. They’re waiting for a ruling.

It’s the luck of the Irish. A golden ticket worth nearly $11 million spent nearly a week in the purse of a woman who forgot it was there.

The County Kerry woman said her family had heard there was a big winner in the April 18 Lotto drawing, and when she belatedly checked her handbag, she found the winner.

A Georgia man lost his class ring in the ’90s — and got it back 27 years later.

Buster Kantwas lost his bling in Warner Robins when he was on a family trip a couple of years after his 1991 graduation. The jewelry was found by a family on a road trip, who apparently rented the same old car in which the ring was found.

It wasn’t from Sting! A father-and-son fishing trip in Alaska didn’t net a big haul, but they found a message in a bottle that traveled 50 miles in 13 years.

Wasilla resident Pat Brashler and son, Jameson, 4, were fishing on the Little Susitna River when they spotted what they thought was trash floating in the water. The Sept. 7, 2007, missive was written by two young girls who detailed their romantic crushes.