Weird BUT true

A British T-shirt peddler kept busy during the pandemic — by folding his way to a new world record.

Jude Coram, 24, made 4,036 tiny origami shirts out of paper, setting a new mark for the Guinness World Records.

“It’s something I’m trying to drop into the conversation here and there,” said Coram, who owns the Apparel of Laughs T-shirt outlet.

The folded-paper shirts broke the record of 3,474 set by a retailer in Tokyo.

A Spanish bishop has been stripped of his clerical powers after tying the knot with an author of erotic novels with Satanic undertones.

Xavier Novell Goma is now forbidden from administering the sacraments or teaching “in public and private” after exchanging vows with Silvia Caballol, the Diocese of Solsona said on Saturday.

Goma can still keep his title, though.

A Colorado cat spent at least two days stranded atop a 36-foot utility pole before finally being rescued.

The feline, named Panther, was spotted on the pole in Aurora on Wednesday after going missing from his owner’s home.

Worried neighbors who had tried in vain to coax the cat down called animal control and the local utility company for help.

An overdue book was returned to the Hewes Library at Monmouth College in Illinois — nearly half a century late.

The book, “Battles on the Monsoon: Campaigning in the Central Highlands,” by SLA Marshall, was due back on Oct. 16, 1972.

“I thought, ‘One of these days I ought to return it,’ ” library scofflaw John Carlson said. Fortunately, the library isn’t charging him late fees.

A Catholic priest in Sicily has been forced to apologize after telling children in his parish that Santa Claus is nothing but a pitchman for Coca-Cola.

The Rev. Alessandro Paolino enraged parents after telling youngsters that St. Nicholas wasn’t real.