UPI Odd News Minute
The Odd News Minute podcast from United Press International is a weekday roundup of hilarious and awe-inspiring stories. New world records, critter misadventures, freaky discoveries, serendipitous lottery wins -- it's the best news you'll hear all day.
Episodes
An Australian surfer escapes without injury when a great white shark bites his board in half and a 40-year-old man gets stuck inside a slide at a Connecticut playground on today's UPI Odd News Minute.
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The UPI Odd News Minute presents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly round-up of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make it into this week's podcasts. This week's stories include a lost wallet that spent 11 years under the hood of a vehicle, a manatee's rare visit to Massachusetts, a venomous snake found on a model train set and a pig that escaped a birthday party and ran to an Illinois school.
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An 82-year-old man rescues -- and subsequently scolds -- a koala stranded in the middle of a Queensland, Australia, road and a visitor to Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park goes home with a 2.3-carat gem on today's UPI Odd News Minute.
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A mysterious spiral of light is spotted in the night sky over the East Coast and a loose sheep escapes slaughter and ties up Chicago traffic on today's UPI Odd News Minute.
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A South Carolina police officer's dashboard camera records a lightning strike on a utility pole and a Pennsylvania kayaker hooks a 4-foot gator while fishing on today's UPI Odd News Minute.
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Starbucks Korea posts notices banning customers from setting up desktop computers and printers at cafes and David Rush assembles a team of four to take on the Guinness World Record for eating baked beans with toothpicks on today's UPI Odd News Minute.
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The UPI Odd News Minute presents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly round-up of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make it into this week's podcasts. This week's stories include a burglar bear being chased out of a house by a 6-pound Pomeranian, 82,000 rubber ducks floating down the Chicago River, the world's tallest sunflower and the USDA using a scene from "Marriage Story" to scare wolves.
Wildlife experts in Kansas disagree about the identity of a mystery animal caught on camera in the northeastern part of the state and a kitten in Scotland gets its head stuck through a hole in a brick on today's UPI Odd News Minute.
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Nationwide Pet Insurance reveals the finalists for the 17th annual Hambone Award, which celebrates "the unexpected, the unusual and downright outrageous" ways that pets end up needing a veterinary visit on today's UPI Odd News Minute.
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A power outage and brush fire in British Columbia is caused by a fish dropped by an osprey and a Texas dashshund breaks a world record with his ability to remove caps from plastic bottles on today's UPI Odd News Minute.
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A grizzly bear charges at the Seattle Kraken's mascot, Buoy the sea troll, and a 5-foot-long lizard named Goose is finally captured after two weeks on the loose on today's UPI Odd News Minute.
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The UPI Odd News Minute presents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly round-up of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make it into this week's podcasts. This week's stories include three world records being broken at the U.K. Dog Surfing Championship, a raccoon stuck in a dumpster, a calf rescued from an underground pipe and an update on Goose the fugitive water monitor lizard.
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A sea lion is rescued from a California road, a New Zealand farm's alpaca is named the oldest in the world and police chase a loose goat through a Colorado neighborhood on today's UPI Odd News Minute.
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A Kentucky animal shelter shares video of an escape-artist dog getting out of his kennel, a cow ends up stranded in an Oklahoma family's backyard pool and a puppy gets her paw stuck in a bathroom drain on today's UPI Odd News Minute.
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A Compton, Calif., woman's doorbell camera captures video of what she believes to be an alien outside her home and a British diving team rescues a wedding ring dropped into a river on today's UPI Odd News Minute.
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An alligator is removed from Florida's Turnpike, an escaped water monitor lizard crosses a state line from Massachusetts to Connecticut and David Rush makes his return to record-breaking in today's UPI Odd News Minute.
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A literal cat burglar steals a New Zealand neighborhood's underwear and firefighters rescue a raccoon stuck in a trash can on today's UPI Odd News Minute.
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A British cyclist breaks two Guinness World Records on a penny farthing bike, Florida deputies rescue a thirsty emu and a coyote is extracted from the front bumper of a car on today's UPI Odd News Minute.
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Thailand's Khao Kheow Open Zoo holds an escape drill featuring a staff member dressed in a mascot costume resembling Moo Deng the pygmy hippo, an escaped ball python is rescued from a commuter train in a Chicago suburb and four cows are rescued from quicksand on a riverbank on today's UPI Odd News Minute.
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A water monitor lizard escapes in a Massachusetts town and a Hong Kong man amasses the world's largest collection of his favorite Pokemon, Gengar.
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