New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Joshua Rhett Miller, with Wires

A fearless Florida teen had a twice-in-a-lifetime experience when he spotted not one, but two great white sharks in as many days.

Nick Bailey, 17, even touched the tail fins of one of the apex predators, which he encountere­d during consecutiv­e dives last week off the coast of Stuart and Jupiter.

This bites.

A red fox bit several people on Capitol Hill this week — including a California lawmaker now undergoing a series of rabies shots.

The sly mammal chomped on Rep. Ami Bera late Monday, the Democrat said.

Capitol Police also received reports of at least three others being “attacked or bitten” Tuesday.

That’s really a-peeling. Researcher­s at the University of Tokyo are training robots to peel bananas without destroying the delicate fruit inside.

The scientists are using “deep imitation learning” to train the automatons.

The two-armed machine has a 57% success rate, but scientists believe that will improve with further testing — and potentiall­y solve a labor shortage in Japan.

Calling all penguin lovers! The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust is looking for low-maintenanc­e staffers to help run a gift shop and post office at its Port Lockroy base on Goudier Island — as well as monitor penguins and other wildlife.

But applicants should be forewarned: there’s no running water at the location.

Billboards in San Francisco are warning residents and tourists alike of the city’s “dirt-cheap” fentanyl amid a spike in overdose deaths.

The in-your-face campaign launched Monday by Mothers Against Drug Deaths also claims the City by the Bay is “famous the world over” for its plentiful supply of the powerful synthetic opioid.

Fentanyl, which is up to 100 times stronger than morphine, is driving a national surge in fatal overdoses.

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