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Weird BUT true

- Conor Skelding, Wires

An Oklahoma City woman was kicked out of her church after her cilantro was mistaken for marijuana.

Ashley Antiverso had brought the herb to season menudo, a spicy Mexican tripe soup, but authoritie­s at the Redemption United Methodist Church confronted her, as seen in a viral TikTok video.

“Smell it, I promise you. I’m not like that, that’s why I’m so mad,” she told them. After a police probe determined the herb to be harmless, the church let her return.

An Arizonan who couldn’t afford his varsity letterman jacket in high school has gotten it back 28 years later, when his brother found it at a thrift store.

Jed Mottley graduated from Chaparral HS in Scottsdale in 1994 — but his mom couldn’t afford the $300 the jacket cost that year.

But this month his brother Josh found the jacket, embroidere­d with Jed’s name, and picked it up for $25.

A female passenger on a Delta flight allegedly breastfed her cat — and wouldn’t stop despite requests from flight attendants, according to the NZ Herald.

A crew memo posted to Twitter for DL1360, with service from Syracuse to Atlanta, reports: “Pax [passenger] in 13A is breast-feeding a cat and will not put cat back in its carrier when requested.”

The airline did not return a Post request for comment.

A man in Istanbul, Turkey, allegedly tried to frame a beloved stray pooch for some dirty deeds by placing dog poop on the city tram.

Footage showed the man drop the doo-doo from his pocket — but at the time, Boji, the dog, was in a shelter.

The government of Malawi — a poor, landlocked country in southern Africa — has invited Mike Tyson to become its official cannabis ambassador.

The country legalized medical marijuana in 2020; last week, Malawi’s agricultur­al minister wrote Tyson, who is involved in marijuana ventures in the US.

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