It must be true...

■■ A long-distance runner who put the slogan “Jesus Saves” on his race bib had his life saved by a man named Jesus. Tyler Moon was competing at a 10-mile event in Minnesota when he suffered a cardiac arrhythmia. Nurse Jesus Bueno was running behind him and was able to perform CPR until paramedics arrived. In the hospital, Moon was stunned to learn that his rescuer was named Jesus. The message on his race bib, Moon said, “is pretty fitting.”

■■ A Utah man has learned the hard way not to get too close to bison. Kyler Bourgeous, 30, was gored by a bison during a hike in Antelope Island State Park in June, suffering a cracked rib and collapsed lung. Believing his misfortune was “just a freak accident,” Bourgeous recently returned to the park with a date, Kayleigh Davis, to jog and watch the sunset. But a bison charged and gored her too, puncturing her thigh. “I generally am not superstitious,” said Bourgeous, “but I have this weird feeling that the bison there really don’t like me.”

■■ A brigade of eight firefighters needed 25 minutes to free a chubby rat that had gotten stuck in a manhole cover. Two children in Germany discovered the portly critter and phoned for help. “The rat had quite a lot of winter fat and got stuck at its hips,” said rescuer Michael Sehr. Animal control’s Andreas Steinbach said that as the rat was freed, it “took a small look back,” as if to say, “Thank you very much, and yes, I know I have to diet.”

■■ A Chinese computer programmer created a chatbot that sent realistic responses to his girlfriend’s daily barrage of 300 texts. Li Kaixiang said he developed the program to avoid hurting his girlfriend’s feelings while he was at work. But the girlfriend became suspicious when the responses to her texts came back nearly instantly. “Why are you responding so fast?” she asked. After revealing his ruse on social media, Li was inundated with requests from other men for the source code to his bot.