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Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

Shuck yeah.

A kindergart­en teacher found 12 pearls inside a raw oyster while slurping it down in New Orleans.

Keely Hill, 32, swallowed one of the BB pellet-sized jewels at Superior Seafood, and nearly choked on the others before spotting the treasure. She plans to have them made into a ring.

Politics was a cage fight for this mayor — literally.

A city official in Brazil settled a dispute over a waterpark by duking it out in an MMA-style cage match surrounded by screaming fans.

Mayor Simão Peixoto, of Borba, was challenged to a duel by former city councilor Erineu Alves Da Silva, who is vying for his position and called him a “crook.”

The mayor knocked his opponent to the ground with a right hook and was declared the winner.

He’s no Danny Ocean. A bumbling bandit was busted when he allegedly stopped outside a bank he had just robbed in Delaware to make an ATM deposit, according to police.

McRoberts Williams, 44, was arrested shortly after he allegedly demanded cash at the Wells Fargo in Wilmington, then bolted to the rear side of the building to deposit the dough, cops said.

A giant pet turtle escaped in Pennsylvan­ia and made a slow-speed getaway down a street — shell-shocking motorists.

The 100-pound African tortoise was spotted “walking through town” in Pittsburgh by folks who assumed the animal was a vicious snapping turtle and called 911.

Officials took the harmless critter to a wildlife center.

A dad in Australia gave his smartphone to his 4-year-old son to distract him — only to learn the tot ordered $1,000plus worth of ice cream.

Kris King, of Sydney, said his son paid $1,139 for frozen treats from Gelato Messina using his UberEats app while pop was watching Aussierule­s football. When the delivery arrived, King nearly “had a bloody heart attack.”

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