The wackiest headlines from the week as they would appear in a Classifieds section.

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ISO COIN COLLECTOR: A Texas highway had to be shut down for 14 hours this week after a semi truck carrying 8 million brand-new dimes tipped over and scattered across the road. The shiny mess was cleaned up with heavy-duty vacuums used to suck up sewage spills, which made the freshly minted coins nearly as dirty as the ones in circulation.

NO VACATIONS: A California prison dentist who retired last year scored a $1.2 million payout from cashing in his thousands of hours of unused vacation time. He has a lot of making up for lost time in his golden years.

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GET UP: A new study found that sitting for more than six hours a day increases your risk of neck pain. The riskiest screen-based activity was looking at your phone, while watching TV didn’t increase risk at all. But these scientists would change their conclusion after seeing how we watch TV.

SOURDOUGH IS ALLOWED: Goop, there it is. Gwyneth Paltrow is back to eating bread and cheese after sticking to a strict paleo diet.

LOST BEATRIX: Workers renovating a town hall in the Netherlands likely threw out a 1980s print of of the nation’s former Queen Beatrix made by Andy Warhol, the mayor admitted. The artwork was worth almost $17,000 so, if everyone can kinda stop what they’re doing and look around one more time, that’d be helpful.

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DINO BAG: A group of luxury brands and biotech companies claims to be creating the first bag made of extinct T. rex leather by extracting collagen from ancient fossils. Finally, something to match your Great Auk boots.

TEACUP UPPERS: A man was arrested after attempting to sneak what police said was a “bulky wallet full of cocaine” into Disney World’s Magic Kingdom.

MANDATORY WINE: At Bangkok’s Gaggan, the No. 9-rated restaurant in the world, you don’t get the luxury of deciding whether you’re feeling gin or vodka. Sommelier Vladimir Kojic chooses the drink that will accompany your meal. And don’t you dare ask for more ice.—MM

The dog equivalents of Victor Wembanyama and Danny DeVito met up last month for a historic playdate of canine Guinness World Record holders.

Reggie, a Great Dane, is the world’s tallest living dog, towering 3 feet, 4 inches above the ground. Pearl, a chihuahua, is the world’s shortest living dog at just 3.6-inches tall (she’s also the length of a dollar bill). The vast size gap between the two dogs didn’t seem to matter much when they first encountered each other, with Reggie partaking in the standard dog greeting of a gentle sniff before the two lay on a sofa together, indifferent to their differences.

As for their personalities, Pearl’s owner told CNN she loves to wear clothes, while Reggie’s owner said he’s “just a big baby.”—NF

Here are some illuminating scientific discoveries from the week to help you live better and maybe even plant a tree.

Planting more trees in cities would save lives. More than a third of all heat-related deaths in the world from 2000 to 2019 could’ve been avoided with more vegetation in urban zones, researchers in Australia reported this week. According to their model of temperatures and greenness across 11,000 urban areas, boosting flora by 30% in areas with a lot of concrete would have reduced average summer heat by about one-third of a degree Fahrenheit, potentially preventing 37% of heat-related deaths from 2000 to 2019 (equivalent to 1.16 million lives). The cooling power of trees and other vegetation is becoming increasingly critical—the study’s lead researcher projected that heat exposure would cause more than 15% of deaths in Southeast Asia in the last decade of the century “under the most extreme global warming scenarios.”