Weird true BUT

This was a case of false advertising.

An Oregon man with a “Not drunk, avoiding potholes” bumper sticker has been charged with hitting a cop car while driving under the influence. Police said the inside of Jeffrey Cannon’s car reeked of alcohol and contained several empty beer cans and a baggie of cocaine.

A wallet lost 66 years ago was found inside the wall of a house and returned to the family of its owner.

Mary Kay Andrews was renovating her Georgia cottage when she made the discovery. Documents inside the wallet identified its owner as Melba Lanier, who lived in the home with her husband in 1954.

Andrews was able to track down the couple’s children on Facebook and returned the long-lost object.

That’ll show ’em. A Scotsman fed up with flat-Earthers has launched an online fundraiser to send one of the theorists to space.

Marc Gauld, of Aberdeen, said he hopes the effort will prove once and for all that our planet is round.

A marine biologist willingly infected himself with 50 hookworms, in the name of science.

Jimmy Bernot, a crustacean expert at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, was one of several people paid to be injected with an experimental hookworm vaccine or a placebo.

The participants’ stool samples were then tested for the number of worm eggs they contained.

“It was really interesting to experience science . . . from the other side — as a study participant rather than a researcher,” he said.

They really took the plunge.

A couple in India got married more than 65 feet underwater. V. Chinnadurai and S. Swetha wore traditional wedding clothing for the Hindu ceremony. The groom is a licensed scuba diver, but his bride took lessons for months before the nuptials.