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Weird BUT true

- Natalie Musumeci, Wires

A team of chefs in New Zealand took the cake — for baking the world’s largest lamington, a kind of Australian dessert made from sponge-cake squares coated in chocolate sauce and coconut.

The Guinness World Record-breaking concoction was made with 13,000 eggs, 1,433 pounds of sugar and more than 1,000 pounds of flour.

Bakers from Creative Edge Foods in Auckland made it for World Lamington Day, celebrated on Tuesday.

An Indian village reportedly served liquor brewed from a tree to about a dozen kids believing it would prevent them from being infected with the coronaviru­s.

Children between the ages of 10 and 12 drank fermented sap from the salapa tree at a marriage ceremony in Odisha about two weeks ago.

After video of the kids drinking went viral this week, local authoritie­s said they were investigat­ing.

In other coronaviru­s-related news . . .

A sea gull in Britain had to be rescued after it was spotted with its legs tangled in a surgical face mask.

Animal-welfare officials, called to the city of Chelmsford in Essex, brought the gull to a wildlife hospital, where staffers cut off the mask and freed the bird.

A beloved 300-pound statue of a pig stolen from an Oklahoma restaurant weeks ago is finally back.

But the concrete swine — known as Jezebel — was returned to Guyutes Restaurant in Oklahoma City with a missing ear.

An anonymous tip led the eatery’s owners to the statue, they said on Facebook, adding, “We are glad she is back with us.”

Florida police arrested a man who allegedly admitted to intentiona­lly driving on the wrong side, forcing oncoming cars off the road, to “scare” misbehavin­g kids in his car.

Timothy Gajka, 42, of Crestview, was charged with DUI, child neglect and possession of marijuana.

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