Weird BUT true

Their name doesn’t rock. Members of a Japanese progressive-metal band are kicking themselves for choosing the name Omicron — even though their Web site has recently gone, well, viral.

The quartet — a singer, keyboardist, drummer and synth-guitarist — say they chose the name a decade ago, long before it became a much-feared COVID-19 variant, because it sounded “cosmic-themed.”

He sang his heart — and his lung — out.

A Chinese man tried so hard to reach a high note at a friend’s karaoke-themed birthday bash, his lung collapsed, according to doctors.

Wang Zhe, 25, was belting the largely falsetto song “New Drunken Concubine” when he felt a sharp chest pain at the party in Changsha and was hospitalized.

Eat your heart out, Homer Simpson.

An Australian man set a new record for the world’s loudest burp when he let out 112.4-decibel belch — louder than some motorcycles.

Neville Sharp, 51, of Darwin, said he spent five years preparing, often by guzzling Coke, to top the former 109.9-decibel record, according to the Guinness World Records.

He doesn’t have drug dealing down to a fine art.

A crook was busted for allegedly trying to smuggle more than 8 pounds of meth into Canada in the back of a large abstract painting.

The 38-year-old from Embleton, Australia, allegedly hid the speed in three vacuum-sealed bags in the artwork frame before it was seized at an air-cargo center.

He’s brighter than Rudolph.

A deer baffled wildlife officials in Canada when he was spotted trotting around town with his antlers wrapped in Christmas lights, wild footage shows.

The klutzy critter got tangled in the holiday decorations near Okotoks last month — but has had no trouble foraging for food, say officials who plan to monitor the animal.