Here are the stories which are true but really odd...

July 7, 2022

New Zealand Mother Names Her Three Children METALLICA, SLAYER And PANTERA; (blabbermouth.net) 18:54


Lithuanian crowdfunding drive gets Ukraine an armed drone (apnews.com) 18:46


Man lights firework on his head and it explodes into his skull, Texas cops say (yahoo.com) 15:59


Joey Chestnut regrets putting Berkeley protester in chokehold at hot dog contest (ktvu.com) 15:46


Woman captures moment lightning strikes her husband's truck on interstate in Florida (yahoo.com) 15:19


This service retrieves your dead loved ones' tattoos and preserves them as framed mementos (boingboing.net) 13:31


Cannibalism Study Finds People Are Not That Nutritious (nationalgeographic.com) 13:11


World's first large-scale 'sand battery' goes online in Finland (energy-storage.news) 13:00


A Derbyshire café has been the recipient of a letter threatening legal action and a victim of graffiti, all because of the "punny" name of one of its sandwiches. The sandwich, Cheesus Christ, has been branded an "insult to Christianity". (derbytelegraph.co.uk) 12:33


The story of Fred the mastodon, who died looking for love (npr.org) 11:27


No kidding: long-eared goat becomes media star in Pakistan (theguardian.com) 08:33


Google’s Allegedly Sentient Artificial Intelligence Has Hired An Attorney (giantfreakinrobot.com) 06:42


Las Vegas man arrested for smearing bacon on Muslim family's door, car; (ktnv.com) 05:44


£350,000 weekly salary! Liverpool renew contract with Salah (nowgoal.com) 05:13


Taika Waititi Asked If Natalie Portman Wanted to Be in a Star Wars Movie... Forgetting She'd Been in 3 Already (ign.com) 23:18


Kangaroo ran loose in Baton Rouge area after parrot set it free; owners will have to give it up (wbrz.com) 23:00