Weird BUT true

It’s a comeback tour. Whitney Houston will embark on a “world tour” next year thanks to a hologram of the star that virtually recreates the diva, who drowned in a bath tub in 2012.

The tour is run by Hologram USA and Pat Houston, the sisterinlaw of the late great and the executor of her ample estate.

Flipping your fins has now replaced flipping burgers.

Professional mermaids are on the rise, with nearly 1,000 people employed as fulltime “merfolk” around the country, according to a report in Fast Company.

It’s good work if you can get it: The fishy folk rake in about $250 an hour to don a 35pound tail and swim around at weddings, birthday parties and even specialty “dive bars.”

Notsosmarty pants. Ten girls were stopped at the gate of a British high school and sent home after their pants were deemed “too tight” for classes.

Pants are the only option for girls at Trentham High School, where Principal Dr. Rowena Blencowe, who banned skirts in July because they “distracted” male teachers.

Hop on, pops! Two minutes of hopping every day can strengthen bone density so that old people are less likely to break their hip after a fall, a new study by the United Kingdom’s Loughborough University found.

The study covered 34 men between 65 and 80 years old, who hopped daily for a year. Their bone density increased up to 7 percent, researchers said.

Caught wethanded. A thief who allegedly nicked money from a charity fountain in Wells, England, initially denied that he’d taken anything when police stopped and questioned him, but piles of soggy coins gave him away.

“He then started to run away and wet, loose change flew out of his pockets and onto the pavement,” inspector Mark Nicholson said.