Weird BUT true

He tackled that quickly. Ryan Bailey, 33, a Charlotte, NC, mega-football fan, broke a Guinness World Record by attending a game at all 32 NFL stadiums in the shortest time span — 74 days.

His whirlwind feat, including him attending three NFL games in a five-day span nine times, topped a prior record of 84 days.

Lassie has nothing on this Texas dog.

Max, a miniature schnauzer who ran off from his El Paso home in 2019, has been reunited with his family, six months after the family moved to Nebraska.

A passing driver last month spotted the pooch near his old home, had vets scan the pup’s microchip and notified owner Yesenia Madrigal. Madrigal’s husband is flying this week to retrieve Max.

Patience paid off for this $2 million Michigan lottery winner.

Jeffrey Phillips, 62, of Washtenaw County, told officials he’d been playing the same five Mega Millions numbers weekly for years.

When he saw the winning numbers online, he said, he thought, “Wait a minute, these numbers are familiar.”

Oh, deer! That was a close one.

Jared Johnson, a New Mexico firefighter, saved a deer stranded on a partially frozen Monte Verde Lake by crawling to the animal on the ice.

Johnson, from a community aptly named Angel, attached a rope to the deer so it could be pulled back to shore.

Call it an unwelcome Christmas sssssurprise.

A South African couple, Rob and Marcela Wild, found a venomous snake called a boomslang lurking among the branches of their Christmas tree.

Wildlife officials, who used specialized tongs to extract the serpent from the tree at the home near McGregor in the Western Cape, plan to release it back into the wild.