1. Fast-thinking doctor used electric car to defibrillate man in parking lot.

2. Redheads received free movie tickets during record heat wave in the U.K.

3. Bank teller got fired for setting the clocks forward to go home earlier.

4. Woman sued man for $10,000 for standing her up on a date.

5. Painting at a German museum was discovered to have been hanging upside down for more than 75 years.

6. National Park Service begged parkgoers to stop licking toads.

7. 100-year-old twins who were born two minutes apart also died two minutes apart.

8. Man who hadn’t bathed in 60 years died a few months after his first bath.

9. Chess-playing robot grabbed its young opponent during a match.

10. Huge hot fudge sundae was denied world record title because a judge was texting while it partially melted.

1. Fake.

2. Real. The theater chain claimed that “redheads are often more vulnerable than most to the sun’s rays.”

3. Fake.

4. Real. The Michigan woman claimed emotional distress.

5. Real. The work by an abstract Dutch artist was also displayed the wrong side up at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

6. Real. The Sonoran Desert toad secretes a potent toxin.

7. Fake.

8. Real. The Iranian man had feared that he would fall ill if he ever used soap and water.

9. Real. The incident occurred in Moscow. The 7-year-old boy’s finger was broken.

10. Fake.

"This word ‘anti-aging’ has to be struck. I am pro-aging. I want to age with intelligence and grace and dignity and verve and energy." —Jamie Lee Curtis, 64, recipient of AARP’s 2022 Movies for Grownups Career Achievement Award

"From bebop to doo-wop to hip-hop to TikTok—you gotta go to know. So that’s what I’m doin’!"
—Composer and producer Quincy Jones, 89, on joining the social media platform

"I thought, Oh my God. That girl can sing. "
—Barbra Streisand, 80, on hearing her recently unearthed recordings from 1962

"I’ve always been averse to the quote ‘Act your age.’ The older I get, the more I try to embrace my inner kid."
—Sylvester Stallone, 76

"I’m not 25, so why should I be trying to look 25? I’ve had children. I have all this life experience."
—Supermodel Cindy Crawford, 56

"When people ask me my age, I say
I’m eternal."
—Jean-Claude Van Damme, 62

"People are smart. They like to see us geezers who’ve been around forever go to work and make something happen."
—Actress Sigourney Weaver, 73

"After a while, I quit listening to folks telling me what I can’t do. All that does is motivate me more to do it."
—Dusty Baker, 73, of the Houston Astros, who won his first World Series as manager

"When doubt or fear begins to take hold of your spirit, let determination cover your body like a quilt on a winter night."
—Actress Angela Bassett, 64

"I have always been busy, all my life. If I don’t do anything significant for a whole day, then I kind of feel depressed at night."
—Celebrity chef Jacques Pépin, 87

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