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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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02:29

Red panda wake-up calls, the great honey heist

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/06/25

A Chinese hotel is ordered to stop offering wake-up room visits featuring live red pandas and a pair of bears escape from their enclosure at a British wildlife park to feast on a week's worth of honey 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

Bears raid fridge, goat evades capture

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2025/06/24

A mother bear and cub break into a California cabin to raid the fridge, a goat has been on the loose for weeks in a Maryland neighborhood and a dog is rescued from a Colorado trench 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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03:06

Potty-mouthed parrot, 15 sets of twins graduate

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/06/23

A Rhode Island animal rescue group seeks a new home for a parrot with a "rated R" vocabulary and a New York high school graduates 15 sets of twins 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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03:53

Odds and Ends: Chicken visits B-dubs, escaped...

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/06/20

A live chicken visits a Buffalo Wild Wings eatery in Iowa, a British zoo recaptures its escaped mongoose, a wallaby on the loose in New York evades capture and Britain's Megabus reveals some of its most unusual lost and found items 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

Mystery dome, San Antonio monkey

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/06/19

A storm leaves a large dome behind in an Indianapolis neighborhood and a spider monkey wearing a diaper is found wandering the streets of San Antonio 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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03:12

Airport diamond, raccoon stuck in tree

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/06/18

Pittsburgh International Airport workers spend hours searching for a diamond lost on a baggage carousel and a stuck raccoon is rescued from a Connecticut tree 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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02:57

Gator motel, New York wallaby escape

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/06/17

An alligator is found lurking outside of a motel room in Virginia, a wallaby escapes from a New York Zoo and a baby deer is fished out of a wastewater treatment tank 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

Elderly lobster, Pedro Pascal lookalike

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/06/16

A Long Island restaurant returns a 110-year-old lobster to the sea and a Pedro Pascal lookalike contest in Manhattan crowns a champion 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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04:47

Odds and Ends: Red light, green light; 'dinosaur'...

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/06/13

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 the world's largest game of red light, green light; a Chinese bank ordered to stop giving customers free Labubu dolls; an alligator "cited for suspicion of being a dinosaur;" and a Swiss man who spent two hours buried in the snow while wearing only his swimsuit. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News

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02:33

Water buffalo outing, students design dog prosthetics

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/06/12

A herd of water buffalo wander through a British Columbia city and a class of Oregon seventh graders design prototype prosthetics for a dog with a spinal injury 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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02:42

Bear enjoys hot tub and doughnuts, Lego pandas take...

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/06/11

A bear caught on camera taking a soak in a Florida resident's hot tub is captured in a trap baited with doughnuts and a Washington, D.C., 12-year-old's Lego sculpture of pandas taking over the nation's capital heads to a global competition 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

Wedding photo found in library book, Sheep in the big...

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/06/10

A long-lost wedding photo from the 1950s turns up in a book donated to a Michigan library and a loose sheep takes to the streets of Milwaukee 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

Flying zebra, TSA's take on Costco cards

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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

UPI Odd News Minute ·

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

UPI Odd News Minute ·

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

UPI Odd News Minute ·

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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