Patient Refuses To Leave Hospital Months After Discharge: Weird News & Oddities

This is odd in the most humbling way for anyone who has ever struggled with the mathematical concept of Pi. The ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, Pi is a constant that can be figured to the nth degree.

Most people stop at 3.14. Jonathan Christopher, a sixth grade student at Spring-Ford Intermediate School in Royersford, Pennsylvania, recited Pi to the 1,067th digit, breaking a 20-year school record in a school Pi Day competition.

Several others in the competition committed massive numbers to memory, too. Second place’s Arnav Venkatesh memorized 828 digits, while Shreyash Prakash had 670 digits for third.

“Watching our students challenge themselves and support one another was incredible,” Holly Smith, one of the event organizers, said in a statement. “They proved that math can be exciting, memorable, and even a little competitive.”

• Read the Patch Exclusive: 6th Grader Memorizes Stunning 1,067 Digits Of Pi

This Whiz Kid, Too

Commack, New York, third grader Zach Key is already earning money for the Roblox game he built from scratch after his parents challenged him to think differently about how he was using the platform.

Instead of limiting their 8-year-old son’s screen time, Zach’s parents encouraged him to explore how it works.

“He started making a map, but he couldn’t connect the dots,” his father and software engineer Ken Key told Patch. “I’m like, wait, this makes perfect sense — just do this, this — and from there, he just kept going.”

The result is Wolf House, a continuously evolving game where players battle waves of wolves, level up and unlock items through an in-game currency system. Players start at level one and progress by defeating enemies, with increasing difficulty as more wolves appear.

Zach designed the game on his own, without his father’s involvement. It has translated into a cottage industry and a step along a path that has long been clear to the 8-year-old.

“Everything from him is, ‘I’m going to be a software engineer,’” his dad said.

• Read the Patch Exclusive: 3rd Grader Isn’t Just Playing Roblox, He’s Getting Paid

Rosie Is A Lucky Girl

This story is weirdly delightful, too. An Alsip, Illinois, 7-year-old named Rosie and her family should be rolling in luck.

Every moment she can find, Rosie heads outside to look for four-leaf clovers, which are considered both lucky for their rarity — the odds of finding one are 1 in 10,000 — and magical.

So, on the first day of spring, Rosie, along with her big brother, Egidus, and little sister, Hazel, was waiting outside while their mom got the baby ready for their daily walk to the park.

Naturally, Rosie began searching the yard. People can look for four-leaf clovers their entire lives, and the reward remains elusive. It wasn’t long before Rosie spotted one.

“We’re the luckiest family ever,” she told her mom.

Indeed. On the third day of spring, she found another one.

• Read the Patch Exclusive: A Springtime Tale Of A 7-Year-Old With Passion For 4-Leaf Clovers

Vintage Whale Wailing: Listen

A haunting whale song discovered on decades-old audio equipment could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals communicate, according to researchers who say it's the oldest such recording known.

The song is that of a humpback whale, a marine giant beloved by whale watchers for its docile nature and spectacular leaps from the water, and was recorded by scientists in March 1949 in Bermuda, said researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Just as significant is the sound of the surrounding ocean itself, said Peter Tyack, a marine bioacoustician and emeritus research scholar at Woods Hole. The ocean of the late 1940s was much quieter than the ocean of today, providing a different backdrop than scientists are used to hearing for whale song, he said.

The recovered recordings “not only allow us to follow whale sounds, but they also tell us what the ocean soundscape was like in the late 1940s,” Tyack said. “That’s very difficult to reconstruct otherwise.”

• Read more and listen to the recording: Oldest-Known Whale Recording May Unlock Ocean Mystery

Hospital Eviction Lawsuit

This isn’t usually how lawsuits involving hospitals work. Usually, a patient sues for some reason or another related to the care, but in a recent Florida lawsuit, a hospital is the plaintiff and is accusing a patient of refusing to leave her room five months after she was medically discharged.

The patient was discharged from care on Oct. 6, but was still in her room when the Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare filed its lawsuit on March 2. The hospital said it needs the bed to treat patients who are actually sick.

Hospital officials have tried repeatedly to coordinate her departure with family members and have offered transportation to obtain necessary identification, according to an Associated Press report.

The hospital didn’t say what the patient was treated for, what her hospital bill was or how she was able to stay at the hospital for more than five months despite being discharged.

• Read more: Patient Won’t Leave 5 Months After Discharge; Hospital Sues

Toe-Sucking Stalker Learns Fate

A judge in California gave the maximum sentence to a defendant who not only stalked his victim, but broke into her home and sucked her toes as she slept.

Prosecutors said Cristian Solorio, 28, of Modesto, met the woman he was convicted of stalking at her workplace in February 2025 and “immediately became obsessed with her.”

Solorio harassed the woman for several weeks, showing up at her workplace multiple times daily and loitering outside until she left for the day, authorities said. By the time he broke into her home, Soloris had repeatedly asked her out and even wrote a letter about taking her to Mexico, the Stanislaus County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release.

“The victim woke up to find Solorio in her bedroom sucking on her toes,” the social media post release said. “Although terrified, the victim managed to talk with Solorio in a friendly demeanor in an attempt to keep him calm and de-escalate his actions.”

Other family members intervened and demanded Solorio leave, which he did. Solorio, who confessed after authorities caught up with him, was sentenced to six years and eight months in the state prison and also faces federal charges relating to drug trafficking, according to the release.

• Read more: Stalker Who Sucked Woman’s Toes Learns Fate

Rare Legacy Estate Listing

Your chance to live in a “rare 12-acre legacy estate” in New York’s wealthy Westchester County, owned and designed by Drew Barrymore, will soon be available for $4.995 million.

According to Principal Agent Kori Sassower of The Kori Sassower Team at Compass, in collaboration with Brian Lewis at Compass in NY, “every room has been thoughtfully reimagined, seamlessly blending the character of its 1747 origins with the modern updates designed for today's most refined buyer.”

The 6,274-square-foot home has six bedrooms and nine bathrooms. The nearly 280-year-old 6,274-square-foot home in Harrison has six bedrooms and nine bathrooms, and is “a remarkable property offering unmatched privacy, timeless charm, and exceptional flexibility.”

“The residence is one of the largest lots in Southern Westchester and showcases exceptional architecture and museum-quality restorations, fusing expansive space with intimate, personal warmth,” Sassower added. “Amid tight inventory across the Hudson Valley, Barrymore's estate is an exceptional offering rarely seen in today's market.”

• Take a peek inside: Drew Barrymore’s Rare 12-Acre Estate Will Soon Hit Market

Cousins Can Marry In These States

It’s still legal for first cousins to marry in Florida after a measure to ban “incestuous marriages” failed in the state Senate. It was part of a larger provision on public health.

“There are plenty of people here, and there are plenty of people you can find to be your lifelong partner without looking to your first cousin,” said Republican State Rep. Dean Black, the failed bill’s sponsor. “So, yes. I think it should come back, whether it’s a standalone bill, whether it’s tagged onto some other bill. Not really sure. We’ll have to see.”

In case you’re thinking it’s “just a Florida thing,” it isn’t. First cousins can also marry in California, New York, Massachusetts, Alabama, Vermont and Georgia.

• Read more: First Cousins Can Marry In These States