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Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

It was bear naked in the hot tub.

A tourist in Tennessee was gobsmacked when he found a black bear leisurely soaking in his Gatlinburg cabin’s outdoor Jacuzzi.

Todd Trebony peeked out of a window and saw the brassy bruin helping himself to a dip with a mountainsi­de view. The uninvited guest eventually ambled away.

Norse knowing you! Maine could soon allow Viking-style funerals in which bodies are burned on a bed of wood in the open air.

A state bill would allow nonprofits that own at least 20 acres to carry out the “funeral pyres.”

Make sure you’ve eaten before reading this.

A Thailand man complainin­g about a stomach ache was stunned when a 59-foot-long tapeworm emerged from his rear end.

The 67-year-old patient, from Nong Khai province, was given medication by a doctor to expel the parasite, which he likely got from eating uncooked beef.

A Florida woman who was reported missing earlier this month was found naked and trapped in an 8-foot storm drain Tuesday.

Lyndsey Jane Kennedy, 43, told her rescuers she got lost in the sewer system after exploring a tunnel while swimming in a canal, cops said.

She was spotted by a woman who saw her through a grate and called for help.

Police are skeptical of her story.

“We find it very hard to believe that she spent that amount of time down there. You need food and water, and so some things don’t add up,” Delray Beach Police Department spokesman Ted White said.

She slept with his wife — and he made her pay.

A woman in Japan was ordered by a court to fork over $1,010 to a man who sued her because she had sex with his wife.

The woman claimed the sex shouldn’t legally be considered “infidelity” because it didn’t ruin their marriage.

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