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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.

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03:02

Flying zebra, TSA's take on Costco cards

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/06/09

The escaped zebra from Tennessee is found after over a week and gets a helicopter ride, the TSA reminds travelers that Costco cards don't count as REAL ID and animal control officers in Massachusetts share the cutest baby raccoon pic you will ever see on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube and TikTok.

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05:14

Odds and Ends: World's smallest violin, escaped bull

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2025/06/06

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 Loughborough University's violin that can't be seen without a microscope; an escaped bull on the streets of Birmingham, England; a Wisconsin zoo calling off the search for an escaped otter; and a message in a bottle that somehow traveled from Hawaii to Florida. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News

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03:04

Clever cockatoos, elephant goes shopping

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2025/06/05

Researchers discover sulphur-crested cockatoos in Sydney, Australia, have learned to operate drinking fountains and a wild elephant walks out of a national park in Thailand and into a grocery store for some sweet snacks on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube and TikTok.

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02:48

Kitten trapped in pipe, peacock hits the links

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/06/04

A kitten is rescued from an underground pipe in New York, a peacock is removed from a Colorado golf course and a trapped deer is rescued from between the bars of a metal fence on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube and TikTok.

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02:52

Opossum bridge rescue, swimming gators

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2025/06/03

An opossum is rescued from Michigan's Mackinac Bridge, Florida deputies remove two alligators from two pools in a single day and a dog is rescued from an old Australian mine shaft on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube and TikTok.

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02:58

Truck spills 14 million bees, zebra on the loose

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/06/02

A truck rolls over on a Washington road and releases its load of 14 million bees, an escaped zebra evades capture in Tennessee and a bear takes a nap in a Florida condo lobby on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube and TikTok.

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04:52

Odds and Ends: Bobcat in the house, wax sausage roll

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/05/30

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 bobcat inside a Colorado resident's living room, Madame Tussauds immortalizing the Greggs Sausage Roll, a protein powder spill on a New York highway and the record-breaking reunion of David "Record Breaker" Rush and Jonathan "Hollywood" Hannon. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd

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03:04

Pigeons try to fly Delta, acrobat does backflips on fire

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/05/29

A pair of pigeons cause chaos aboard a Delta flight from Minneapolis to Madison and a British daredevil lights himself on fire to do 7 backflips in 30 seconds on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube and TikTok.

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02:45

Baseball squirrel, Wisconsin pig chase

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/05/28

A squirrel runs out onto the field during a Detroit Tigers game and Wisconsin sheriff's deputies find an unusual way to capture a loose pig on today's especially midwestern UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube and TikTok.

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03:03

Elephant seal comes to town, man swims with sharks

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/05/27

An elephant seal wanders out of the ocean into a residential neighborhood in South Africa, an endurance swimmer swims 59 miles around Martha's Vineyard for shark conservation and a Washington zoo's escaped East African crowned crane returns home on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube and TikTok.

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04:10

Odds and Ends: Ship in the yard, crusty turtle

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/05/23

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 Norwegian man waking up to find a cargo ship in his yard, a sea turtle found covered in 1.5 pounds of barnacles and other organisms, an East African crowned crane's escape from a Washington zoo and a kangaroo named Irwin making his second escape from home in Colorado. For these stories and more, visit

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02:48

New York Pigeon Fest, news anchor in labor

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/05/22

New York's elevated park The High Line announces it will celebrate controversial birds with Pigeon Fest on June 14 and CBS6 Albany's Olivia Jaquith anchors the morning news show while in labor on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube and TikTok.

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03:16

When cows fly, mystery light was 'not STEVE'

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/05/21

Stranded cows get airlifted out of a Swiss village under threat of rockslide, an astronomer identifies a mysterious light in the sky over Arizona and an Iranian man balances 96 spoons on his body on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube and TikTok.

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03:02

Snake under the hood, water-tossing

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/05/20

A Missouri woman spots a snake peeking out from under the hood of her car, David "Record Breaker" Rush throws water for a world record and an alligator is fished out of a North Carolina pool on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube and TikTok.

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02:34

Wildlife rescuers don bear suits, world record gets...

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/05/19

A baby bear at San Diego Humane Society's Ramona Wildlife Center is being raised by caretakers wearing bear suits and a town in France breaks a world record with 3,076 people in Smurf costumes on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube and TikTok.

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05:48

Odds and Ends: Moose maternity, naked 5k

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/05/16

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 cat that escaped from a vet and walked nearly 3 miles home, a moose that gave birth on the lawn at an Alaska hospital, a "clothing-optional" 5k race in South Carolina and an alligator "chillin'" in a pipe underneath a Florida road. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News Minute

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03:09

3-inch dog, bear steals trail camera

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2025/05/15

An Ontario woman's 3-inch-tall dog might be the smallest in the world, a trail camera "theft" in New Hampshire is found to be the work of a bear and a fawn is rescued from a Texas storm drain on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube and TikTok.

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02:36

Duck triggers speed camera, robot solves Rubik's cube

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/05/14

A fast-flying duck triggers a speed camera in a Swiss town seven years to the day after an identical incident and a Purdue team's robot breaks the world record for solving a Rubik's cube puzzle on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube and TikTok.

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03:09

Cat quinceañera, Cedar Point alpaca escape

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2025/05/13

A quinceañera for a Texas woman's 15-year-old cat goes viral and saves a rescue group from closing down and three alpacas escape from the petting zoo at the Cedar Point amusement park in Ohio on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube and TikTok.

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02:22

Goat interferes with cycling race, baby raccoons at...

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2025/05/12

A goat collides with a cyclist during the Giro d'Italia race and three baby raccoons are rescued from inside a wall at San Francisco's Chase Center on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube and TikTok.

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