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Canadian Army promotes polar bear to honorary master corporal

Odd News // 10 hours ago

Canadian Army promotes polar bear to honorary master corporal

Nov. 25 (UPI) -- The Canadian Army celebrated the fifth birthday of a beloved polar bear at the Toronto Zoo by giving the animal a promotion to honorary master corporal.

Canadian lottery winner was unaware of jackpot for over a month

Odd News // 10 hours ago

Canadian lottery winner was unaware of jackpot for over a month

Rockefeller Center Christmas tree owl released back into the wild

Odd News // 10 hours ago

Rockefeller Center Christmas tree owl released back into the wild

Florida man thaws Thanksgiving turkey in backyard pool

Odd News // 10 hours ago

Florida man thaws Thanksgiving turkey in backyard pool

Minnesota squirrel appears drunk after eating old pear

Odd News // 11 hours ago

Minnesota squirrel appears drunk after eating old pear

Nov. 25 (UPI) -- A Minnesota woman who has been feeding the squirrels outside her home shared video of one of the animals acting drunk after eating an apparently fermented pear.

Loose boa constrictor found wandering Madrid neighborhood

Odd News // 12 hours ago

Loose boa constrictor found wandering Madrid neighborhood

Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Police in Madrid said an officer captured a boa constrictor spotted slithering loose through a neighborhood by surprised residents.

Hammerhead shark circles oblivious swimmer in Florida

Odd News // 12 hours ago

Hammerhead shark circles oblivious swimmer in Florida

Nov. 25 (UPI) -- A Florida photographer captured drone footage of an oblivious swimmer's close encounter with a huge hammerhead shark that swam circles around the man.

Florida woman break Guinness record for Lego walking relay

Odd News // 14 hours ago

Florida woman break Guinness record for Lego walking relay

Nov. 25 (UPI) -- A group of five Florida women broke a Guinness World Record when they collectively walked 2.04 miles barefoot over a pile of Lego bricks.

Deer steals hunter's gun, flees into woods

Odd News // 15 hours ago

Deer steals hunter's gun, flees into woods

Nov. 25 (UPI) -- A hunter in the Czech Republic was charged by a deer that snagged the man's gun on its antlers and fled into the woods with the weapon, police said.

Man wins lottery jackpot thanks to rain canceling son's practice

Odd News // 1 day ago

Man wins lottery jackpot thanks to rain canceling son's practice

Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A British Columbia man who collected a lottery jackpot of more than $500,000 said he has some unexpected rain and his son's appetite to thank for his good luck.

Deer runs wild through assisted living facility in Canada

Odd News // 1 day ago

Deer runs wild through assisted living facility in Canada

Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Police responded to an assisted living facility in Canada to remove a deer that crashed into the building through a glass door and ended up barricaded in the exercise room.

12-year-old boy accepted to Georgia Tech, seeks NASA career

Odd News // 1 day ago

12-year-old boy accepted to Georgia Tech, seeks NASA career

Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A 12-year-old Georgia boy who has been accepted to attend Georgia Tech said he plans to study aerospace engineering for a career in space exploration.

Texas hospital performs complicated, 10-person kidney swap

Odd News // 1 day ago

Texas hospital performs complicated, 10-person kidney swap

Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A Texas hospital's kidney swap program faced one of its greatest logistical challenges when doctors pulled off a 10-way organ transplant that saved the lives of five people.

World's deepest swimming pool opens in Poland

Odd News // 1 day ago

World's deepest swimming pool opens in Poland

Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A newly opened business in Poland is offering training services for scuba divers in its 148-foot-deep pool -- the deepest swimming pool in the world.

Mysterious monolith found in southwest Utah

Odd News // 1 day ago

Mysterious monolith found in southwest Utah

Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Authorities in Utah said they are investigating the origins of mysterious monolith spotted sticking out of the ground in a rural area in the southwestern part of the state.

Sandhill crane named 'Fraser' released after treatment for golf ball injury

Odd News // 1 day ago

Sandhill crane named 'Fraser' released after treatment for golf ball injury

Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A sandhill crane dubbed "Fraser Crane" by rescuers was released back into the wild in British Columbia after receiving treatment and rehabilitation for an injury from an errant golf ball.

Expedition to Earth's lowest point earns Guinness records for three

Odd News // 1 day ago

Expedition to Earth's lowest point earns Guinness records for three

Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A recent expedition to the Challenger Deep, the deepest-known point on Earth, resulted in Guinness World Records for all three members of the expedition.

Man breaks 1-mile basketball dribbling world record by 0.02 seconds

Odd News // 2 days ago

Man breaks 1-mile basketball dribbling world record by 0.02 seconds

Nov. 23 (UPI) -- A University of North Carolina track coach dribbled a basketball for a mile and broke the Guinness World Record for the feat by only 0.02 seconds.

Man wins lottery on late father's birthday using dad's numbers

Odd News // 2 days ago

Man wins lottery on late father's birthday using dad's numbers

Nov. 23 (UPI) -- An Australian man who won a lottery jackpot of nearly $400,000 on his late father's birthday said he used a set of numbers that he inherited from the older man nine years earlier.

Erosion from hurricane reveals shipwreck on Florida beach

Odd News // 2 days ago

Erosion from hurricane reveals shipwreck on Florida beach

Nov. 23 (UPI) -- A visitor to a northern Florida beach discovered the erosion from Hurricane Eta had uncovered something surprising in the sand -- a shipwreck from the 1800s.

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