Here's your weekly digest of the most weird, true and funny news from the across the globe.
1) The people who love taking selfies with cows
Most seflie contests are rather interesting but this one was really took the cake or ate the fodder (to be more precise).
Rather than taking a picture of yourself in a crazy location, or doing a bizarre pose, you have get a snap with a cow.
The contest ran by cattle protection group Go Seva Parivar is over now so don’t rush out and start annoying the local cattle folk.
What you can do is admire the entries sent in last month over social media by clicking HERE.
2) This woman ate a Christmas dinner every day for 15 years
Jayne Winteringham has Christmas dinner every day and thinks her repetitive diet and consistent calorie intake stops her weight from fluctuating.
The 60-year-old has had a bonkers 5,475 roasts and tucks into a turkey with spuds and the full trimmings every day.
She said whatever the weather, a roast is always on the menu – with accompanying Christmas candles.
That means since 2000 she has had a barmy 82,125 sprouts.
3) The Simpsons are scientists now
Maggie Simpson is known more for her pacifier than her scientific acumen.
But somehow the youngest member of the fictional "Simpsons" clan had the brainpower to co-author a scientific paper and have it accepted for publication by not one but two real-life journals.
Dr Alex Smolyanitsky, a Colorado-based materials scientist, said he was looking for a way to spotlight the laughably weak peer-review process used by certain scientific journals -- ones that seem quick to accept just about any submitted paper as long as the author pays up.
So with the help of an online gibberish-generating program called SCIGen, Smolyanitsky prepared an article full of scientific mumbo-jumbo so nonsensical that even Homer could have spotted the prank -- just have a look at a few of the opening lines from the paper, entitled "Fuzzy, Homogeneous Configurations:"
4) The universe just showed Star Wars who's boss
Star Wars truly is intergalactic, it seems, as a star appeared to emit a golden ‘lightsaber’ into space some 1,350 light years from Earth.
In an image released from the European Space Agency, jets of ‘energised gas’ appear to shoot in opposite directions from the star’s poles, appearing like the doubled bladed Lightsaber favoured by Darth Maul in the Phantom Menace.
5) Marriage proposal flops after man's girlfriend says diamond is too small
A man's elaborate marriage proposal flopped when his girlfriend turned him down because the diamond on the ring was too small.
According to reports, the man got down on one knee while hired dancers performed in front of her in an elaborate display.
The young woman initially seems overcome by the performance on a street in Chengdu, the capital city of south-west China's Sichuan province.
At one point she started to cry as her boyfriend walked towards her.
But when he went down on one knee and held up the box, opening the ring for her to see, she was less than impressed.
Better luck next time, bud.
6) No money, not problem, pay with SEX
Driving instructors in Holland are now legally allowed to accept sex as payment for lessons.
Yes, that’s right.
The new law, called ‘Ride for a Ride’ (wink, wink), has just been introduced by the Dutch government for any student as long as they are over the age of 18.
Prostitution is legal in Holland, if the person has a valid escort licence and pays their taxes on a self-employment basis, with this new law taking things one step further.
