Tin Man’s oil can from The Wizard of Oz up for auction

A California-based auction house said it is selling a rare piece of movie memorabilia, the Tin Man’s oil can from The Wizard of Oz.

GWS Auctions said the oil can, one of five used during filming of the 1939 movie, was presented to Tin Man actor Jack Haley after the film wrapped.

“This piece has excellent investment potential, as items from or made for this legendary film almost never surface, including the Tin Man costume which is said to be lost,” the auction listing states.

The auction house said the oil can is on loan to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles until November, and the museum has expressed an interest in extending the loan if an agreement can be reached with the new owner.

A five-legged lamb born in Britain

The owners of a British farm said they were shocked when a lamb was born recently with a fifth leg sticking out of its side. Heather Hogarty, part-owner of Whitehouse Farm in the Morpeth, Northumberland area, said the five-legged lamb was born as part of a set of triplets and appears to be in good health.

“It is unusual, but animals having something a bit different do happen — we get many animals born with disabilities, but you don’t see them as often, as sadly they get put down,” Hogarty told.

Extra limbs are believed to occur in about one out of every one million lamb births, but the lamb is actually the second to be born with a fifth leg at the farm.

Fishermen find 12,000-year-old woolly mammoth tooth

The crew of a New Hampshire fishing boat was dredging for scallops when they pulled up a 12,000-year-old woolly mammoth tooth. The crew, known as the New England Fishmongers, said the 11-inch-long tooth was found off the coast of Newburyport, Mass.

Tim Rider, captain and co-owner the boat, took the seven-pound item to the University of New Hampshire, where experts identified it.

“I always love thinking about the landscape in New England,” UNH Geology Professor Will Clyde said. “With mammoths and mastodons walking around, and in terms of geological times, that wasn’t that long ago.”

Rider said he has decided to auction the tooth on eBay and donate the proceeds to World Central Kitchen, a charity working to provide hot meals to refugees from the violence in Ukraine.

The Batman screening guest appearance, a real bat

Moviegoers in Austin, Texas, got to see more than one type of bat during a screening of The Batman.

An actual bat was spotted swooping around inside the theatre, putting the movie on pause while management called animal control and tried, unsuccessfully, to get the critter out. Guests were offered their money back, but most chose to stick it out and watch the film “bat and all,” according to one moviegoer.

The Movie House & Eatery by Cinépolis, says the bat was likely released into the theatre as a prank, but the theatre’s management said they will be “adding additional security and checking all bags upon guest entry.”

There were no reports of anyone being bitten during the incident.

Published in Dawn, Young World, March 19th, 2022