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Weird BUT true

- Dean Balsamini, Wires

They didn’t miss a beet! NASA announced that astronauts successful­ly grew edible, nutritious radishes on board the Internatio­nal Space Station for the first time in the program’s history.

The plants, which could help feed explorers to Mars and beyond, are being placed in cold storage to be examined when astronauts return from the space station in 2021.

This guy has a hair-trigger temper.

A Kentucky man was arrested for disorderly conduct after he allegedly raised a ruckus at a local salon.

The bald man’s bone of contention was that the beauty parlor did not have a product for sale to restore his long-lost follicles.

A four-legged Walmart customer in Alabama turned out to be a savvy shopper.

Abby, a black-and-white canine, had been missing for three weeks until she wandered into the store and located her owner — the cashier at register No. 6.

Roll over in the mud, Beethoven!

Orders for a Brazilian pig-feeding robot, which plays classical music while dispensing meals, spiked 400 percent this year as farmers aimed to cut costs amid the pandemic.

The creators of the swine server claim the strains of Bach and Mozart mitigate animal stress.

Cosplay is for kids. A Canadian YouTuber inspired by “Star Wars” is credited with building the galaxy’s first retractabl­e proto-lightsaber, earning him a Guinness World Record.

James Hobson’s gizmo has a hilt designed to resemble those used by the Jedi Knights, but is attached to tanks of liquid propane gas and oxygen gas to create the high level of heat required to make the plasma beam.

Hobson used his lightsaber to cut though a Stormtroop­er mannequin and various metals.

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