It must be true...

I read it in the tabloids

■■ A piece of Lego finally fell out of a boy’s nose—two years after he pushed it up there. New Zealander Sameer Anwar, 7, inserted the tiny piece into his nostril in 2018, but neither his parents nor his doctor could find it, and the incident was forgotten. “Since then he’s never complained or anything,” his father said. But last week Sameer felt some pain, blew his nose, and the piece shot out. “Mum, I found the Lego!” he said. “You were telling me it wasn’t there, but it was!”

■■ A Mississippi man who had proposed a state flag featuring a mosquito briefly enjoyed a moment of triumph before officials said he had only advanced to the second round because of a typo. Thomas Rosete submitted one of 3,000 proposals to replace the former flag featuring the Confederate battle emblem with one showing a mosquito in the center of a circle of stars on a red-and-white background, in recognition of the insect’s pervasive, annoying presence in the state. Rosette said he believes that “people from all backgrounds can get behind” his flag because, as he put it, “The mosquitoes, it’s their state. We’re just living in it.”

■■ A Swiss town got an overnight dusting of “chocolate snow” after a malfunction at a chocolate factory. Children in the town of Olten awoke to find a Willy Wonka–esque “chocolate wonderland,” with everything from roads to roofs to cars covered with a fine layer of the dust produced when cocoa beans are crushed in preparation for making candy. Officials with the Lindt & Spruengli company blamed the issue on a problem with the factory’s cooling ventilation system, but on social media, residents expressed delight at the flavorful snow. “My dream come true,” said one.