New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Natalie Musumeci, Wires

She’s one tough cookie. An 8-year-old California kid has set a record selling 32,484 boxes of Girl Scout cookies in one season.

Lilly Bumpus, a cancer survivor from San Bernardino, sold the cookies over three months. Her troop held a special celebratio­n when the total was revealed.

“I thought, ‘Wow, I never knew I could do that,’ ” Lilly told local media. “And it just meant so much to me to see that huge number.”

This dog was tired out. Massachuse­tts animal-control officers and firefighte­rs came to the rescue of a dog that got her head stuck in an old tire over the weekend.

Falmouth Animal Control first attempted to free the pooch, named Bella, before calling the local fire department to cut the tire off.

“While using great care and precision, the team was able to saw through the rim of the tire to free Bella,” animal control said.

A North Carolina woman got a special gift for her 20th wedding anniversar­y — a $373,741 lottery jackpot.

Sadhana Patel of New Bern bought the Fast Play ticket on her special day but only realized it was a winner last week.

“I was shocked,” she told state lottery officials.

It’s a blast from the past. A large safe in the basement of a California university was found to have documents dating back to the school’s founding in 1851.

Christophe­r Callahan, president of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, said the 5-foot-high safe found in the school’s Burns Tower is believed to have been sealed for about five decades.

A 79-year-old Arizona golfer crushed a Guinness World Record by hitting 1,050 drives at least 200 yards inside a 35-yard grid.

Bob Kurtz went to the TopGolf Scottsdale driving range last week to attempt to hit 1,000 drives in 12 hours and raise money for charity.

Kurtz, nicknamed “Golf’s Ironman,” already holds a Guinness record for golfing 1,850 holes in one week.

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