Weird BUT true

A Maryland man won a $50,000 lottery prize — after he nearly threw his winning ticket in the trash.

The 50-year-old Waldorf man said he initially believed he had losing numbers before realizing that a bonus game at the bottom of the ticket had netted him a pretty penny.

“I almost balled it up and threw it out. But before I did, I scanned the ticket with the lottery’s app while sitting in my car,” he said.

It will be hard to ketchup to this record.

A British gardener harvested more than 800 tomatoes from a single stem — nearly double the previous Guinness World Record.

Douglas Smith of Abbotts, England, said 839 tomatoes came from the single stem, or truss, that grew from seeds he planted in March.

She’s on a roll.

A British woman with a passion for gymnastics has broken two Guinness World Records.

Bethan Lodge decided to start practicing tumbling and rolling after losing motivation to do her usual workouts during the pandemic.

Soon, she smashed the record for most back-somersault burpees in 30 seconds by managing five — as well as doing forward rolls over 100 meters, with a time of 42.64 seconds.

Boston’s “Skinny House” has sold for a fat price.

The famous home in the city’s North End — only 10 feet at its widest — went for $1.25 million Thursday.

Its Realtor said the fourstory home “received multiple offers and went under agreement for over list price in less than one week.”

A Massachusetts man is recovering from a fight with an angry beaver.

Mark “Pres” Pieraccini, 73, says he was attacked by a likely rabid beaver in a terrifying encounter in a Franklin County pond that left him with lacerations all over.

But he bears the animal no ill will, saying, “It’s like if I had rabies and I attacked you with a baseball bat, would you hold it against me?”