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April 26 (UPI) -- A Ghana man studying forestry in Alabama set a world record for most trees hugged in an hour when he hugged 1,123 trees at Tuskegee National Forest.

April 26 (UPI) -- Sometimes winning a six-figure lottery ticket is about being at the right place at the right time, as a South Carolina man found out earlier this month, collecting $200,000 in a scratch-off game.

April 25 (UPI) -- An anonymous Maryland woman won a $50,000 Powerball prize after her boyfriend encouraged her to play lottery games.

April 25 (UPI) -- A Nigerian woman broke a world record for the longest interviewing marathon after hosting 90 people over 55 hours, 24 seconds.

Tucked in among the glaciers, fiery Mount Erebus is the southernmost active volcano on Earth, providing a bit of heat amid the frozen landscape of Antarctica.

April 25 (UPI) -- We're rounding up five of the best Odd News stories featuring goats, including tales of hoofed heroes escaping danger, climbing to new heights and not being ashamed to ask for "help."

April 24 (UPI) -- A wildlife rescuer in South Carolina came to the rescue of an alligator found to have been trapped in a drainage pipe for nearly six months.

April 24 (UPI) -- Firefighters called in a search and rescue team for help recovering a poodle who found himself trapped under the kitchen in a home "of non-standard construction."

April 24 (UPI) -- Three cows escaped from their farm in Kansas and led police on a chase "for quite a while."

April 24 (UPI) -- A British man ran a distance of one mile through the water in a swimming pool in an attempt to break a Guinness World Record.