Weird BUT true

A British soap-opera star was startled not just by a 4-foot snake — but by the fact it was on the toilet seat.

Harry Visinoni, co-star of “Coronation Street,” discovered the reptile in his girlfriend’s apartment when he went to brush his teeth.

Animal rescuers captured the royal python after finding it behind a radiator.

A Russian swimmer has broken a Guinness World Record for the longest underice swim.

Yekaterina Nekrasova, 40, swam 279 feet under the ice for 1 minute and 30 seconds in Siberia’s Lake Baikal, topping the old record by 50 feet.

She breast-stroked through the freezing water wearing only a one-piece swimsuit and no fins.

A North Carolina man’s late-night stop at a supermarket to grab a salad led him to score a $100,000 lottery jackpot.

Matthew Hehs of Mooresville was in for a long night at work in industrial sales, so he stopped at a store for a Monster energy drink, a salad, and some scratch-offs.

“When I scratched the second one, I had to kinda’ take a step back,” he recalled.

“I triple-checked, and it was $100,000!”

A woman has been united with her late Pennsylvania mother’s high-school class ring, 50 years after it was lost.

Stephanie Livelsberger said her mom, Kathleen Marie Jurina, who died nearly two decades ago, had told her the Steelton-Highspire HS Class of 1971 ring was missing.

Timothy Noll found it on a beach about 10 years ago, and tracked down Livelsberger using social media.

Colorado authorities were recently called to a home to retrieve a ring-tailed cat that was found wandering in a boiler room.

The Jefferson County Sheriff ’s Office said on Facebook that animal-control officers set a trap and within an hour, “the secretive creature was carefully collected and released into the . . . woods.”

Ringtail cats are mammals of the raccoon family.