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Weird true BUT

- Tamar Lapin, Wires

It gamed the high seas. A toy pirate ship made it all the way from Scotland to Miami.

The boat, called “Adventure,” was launched into the North Sea by Scottish brothers Ollie and Harry Ferguson.

It’s equipped with a GPS device that allows the duo to share the boat’s location on social media.

South Florida resident Ellie Alvarez and her father Ulises tracked the toy down last week and plan to send it back to the Fergusons.

A Florida man was finally busted after allegedly pointing a laser at planes flying overhead for about a year.

Rolando Yague, 61, was arrested last week and charged with misuse of a laser.

Officials said Yague aimed a green laser at the cockpits of airplanes taking off and landing at Miami airport while he walked his dog.

What a waste.

A sculpture built in honor of British health-care workers was hauled away after being mistaken for trash.

The town of Radstock in Somerset eventually admitted that a council worker removed the artwork — of a nurse holding out a red heart — on a flatbed truck after believing it to be illegally dumped waste.

A “gut feeling” led a Michigan woman to a $1 million jackpot.

Rnysha Woods, 26, said she ended up buying several tickets for the Jan. 15 Michigan Lottery drawing on a whim.

“I play Mega Millions often, but had an unusual ‘gut feeling’ telling me to buy tickets for the next drawing,” Woods said. “When I saw I’d matched five numbers I couldn’t believe it.”

It’s no small potatoes. Lebanon now has the world’s first vegan-only hospital.

Hayek Hospital in Beirut announced the plant-based change on Instagram, writing, “Our patients will no longer wake up from surgery to be greeted with … the very food[s] that may have contribute­d to their health problems in the first place.”

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