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Weird true BUT

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

Turban legend?

No, a group of quick-thinking Sikh hikers near Vancouver, BC, Canada, turned their headwear into a makeshift rope to help two people stranded on the side of a cliff.

Kuljinder Singh and his pals unraveled their three turbans and pulled to safety two men trapped by a fastmoving river in Golden Ears Provincial Park.

“Quite resourcefu­l,” said rescue manager Rick Laing.

They’ll get their just desserts.

Two Michigan jailbirds won a years-long court battle to eat cheesecake behind bars in the name of Judaism.

Gerald Ackerman and Mark Shaykin had sued the Michigan Department of Correction­s, claiming Jewish inmates’ religious rights were trampled when they were denied kosher meat and dairy on certain holidays — and cheesecake on Shavuot.

Chlamydia is running so rampant among koalas in Australia, scientists plan to vaccinate hundreds of the horndog marsupials.

The un-bear-able STD has infected more than half of the animals in some areas, shrinking their population.

In a trial study, researcher­s from the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland will give the jabs to some 400 koalas.

Tech-savvy bank robbers in the United Arab Emirates allegedly made off with $35 million by mimicking a company executive’s voice over the phone.

The thieves used a deepfake AI voice clone to order a money transfer from a bank manager — who sent the big bucks to the scammers’ account, authoritie­s said.

This couple’s big day panned out!

An couple in India stranded in floodwater sailed for 20 minutes to their wedding ceremony in a giant cooking pot, according to reports.

Akash Kunjumon and his fiancée, Aishwarya, borrowed the cookware from a local temple because there were no boats available in waterlogge­d Kerala.

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