Weird BUT true

Meet “daddy short legs.” Scientists have tweaked the genes of daddy long legs to shorten the gams of the house-dwelling spiders.

Researchers with the University of Wisconsin-Madison used a technique called RNA interference to turn off a pair of genes tied to leg development in hundreds of daddy long leg embryos.

The experiment left the affected spiders with six of their eight legs coming out shorter than their un-engineered counterparts.

A Texas man allegedly stole a Krispy Kreme truck to go on an hourslong crime spree.

Police said Carlos Emmanuel Andrade, 23, swiped the truck from an El Paso store parking lot after a beer run.

He then allegedly drove to and burglarized a 7-Eleven and also crashed into a house, multiple cars and a pedestrian before he was arrested.

He’s a real “Fruit Ninja.” An Idaho man won a Guinness World Records title after slicing through 85 airborne kiwis with a samurai sword while on a balance board.

David Rush completed the feat in 1 minute.

He’s beaten at least 200 records to promote STEM education and said this was his 10th inspired by the popular video game “Fruit Ninja.”

An Ohio ex-con has married a woman two months after his conviction in the murder of her brother was tossed out.

John Tiedjen exchanged “I do’s” with Crystal Straus over the weekend in Cleveland. He was convicted of slaying the bride’s brother, Brian McGary, in 1987.

Tiedjen spent 23 years behind bars before Cuyahoga County Judge Dick Ambrose threw out the verdict in June and granted him a new trial.

A Florida couple was found “covered in spaghetti” after a fight that ended with both of them arrested on domestic battery charges.

Stephanie Lannas, 45, and her boyfriend, Adolfo Rivera, 35, apparently each shoved a plate of pasta in the other’s face during an argument at home over dinner.