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Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

It wasn’t the Joker, Bane or Hush who stopped Batman this week — it was Canadian police.

Ontario Provincial Police in Brampton pulled over a man driving a realistic Batmobile replica while dressed head-to-toe as the Caped Crusader.

A video of the Sunday encounter has gone viral. It’s unclear if he was ticketed.

She went from prayer to player.

Sister Mary Jo Sobiek, of Marian Catholic HS, stunned Chicago White Sox fans when she threw a perfect opening pitch at Saturday’s game against the Kansas City Royals.

“She stepped back at about 45 feet and threw a bullet,” said Sox manager Rick Rentria of the badass nun who drew wild cheers from the stands but couldn’t stave off a 3-1 Royals win against the home team.

Total lounge lizard. A crocodile made itself comfortabl­e on a foam “noodle” pool toy and took a ride down a Florida canal.

Key Largo resident Victor Perez, who saw the scaly slacker floating past, quipped: “He looked like just any typical Florida tourist!”

Drones dropped hundreds of thousands of infertile male mosquitos onto the Brazilian town of Bahia to combat the spread of infectious diseases like the Zika virus.

Engineers released 500,000 of the blood suckers to crowd out fertile males and lower the mosquito population.

Children aren’t welcome at this “Gra n d ma’s Kitchen.”

A German restaurant by that name, “Oma’s Küche,” faced an uproar when it banned kids and infants from entering the establishm­ent on the German island of Rügen after 5 p.m.

But after announcing its no-kids-at-dinner policy, the number of customers visiting the restaurant nearly doubled, according to its owners.

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