Aging rocker Billy Idol told Maxim magazine in an interview that he shaves his testicles to get rid of the gray hair. Idol also admitted that without shaving “it’s like steel wool down there.”

A woman testified that she paid a local musician to fly four invisible mermaids from London to Harare, Zimbabwe, to help her recover a stolen car and cash. The musician, Edna Chizema, is on trial for theft by false pretenses. The woman also paid for the mermaids to stay in a plush tourist resort during their stay.

George Kaminski, a Pennsylvania prisoner, has collected a world record 72,927 four-leaf clovers since 1995. He found all of them on the grounds of various Pennsylvania prisons. Kaminski is worried, however because he’s been transferred to a minimum security facility that doesn’t have any four-leaf clovers. A 73-year-old retiree in Alaska who has collected over 76,000 is trying to become recognized as the new world record holder.

A stunt-diving pig died Thursday after diving off a platform into a heated pool at the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo. It is believed the pool had an electrical malfunction. Rodeo officials are investigating the death.

Around 80 percent of traffic jams occur because there are too many people on the same part of the road at the same time, according to a professor of traffic physics at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. A traffic modeller at Dresden’s Technical University recommends that drivers reduce the severity of traffic jams on the autobahn by getting off the crammed highway and driving on other streets.

A perforance by the “Great Circus of China” in Illinois this week turned out to actually be Caucasians in silk beanies and black wigs. Instead of the advertised acrobats and a Chinese lion dance, the acts included a woman with a Hula-Hoop and similar performances.

A story on MSNBC claimed 145 million people will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer in the US this year. The article was later edited to read 145 thousand.