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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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02:44

Ice crashes through Florida roof, alligator in the pool

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2025/02/04

A mysterious chunk of falling ice crashes through the roof of a Florida home, a deputy helps remove an alligator from a backyard pool and a Chinese chef makes the world's thinnest handmade noodle 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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03:34

Shark's immaculate conception, bat in the pool

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2025/02/03

A baby swell shark hatches at Louisiana's Shreveport Aquarium despite no males being present in the tank and a bat is rescued from the pool at an Australian hotel 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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05:03

Odds and Ends: Groundhog rankings, crawlspace bear

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2025/01/31

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 NOAA study ranking the accuracy of weather-predicting groundhogs, a California man who returned home after the Eaton Fire to find a bear in his crawlspace, a massive milk spill on a Florida highway and a Turkish man's record-breaking ax throw. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd

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03:33

$50 painting might be a van Gogh, camera lost in the...

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2025/01/30

An art research firm says a painting bought for $50 from a Minnesota garage sale is a long-lost Vincent van Gogh original and a GoPro camera dropped into the ocean is found and returned to its owner eight months later 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

Wales' worst emergency calls, fireball over the Midwest

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2025/01/29

The Wales Ambulance Service reveals the most "inappropriate" calls to its 999 emergency number from 2024 and a fireball breaks into pieces in the night sky over Wisconsin 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

Krispy Kreme baby, dog found after 8 years

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2025/01/28

The parents of a baby born in the parking lot of a Krispy Kreme in Alabama get free doughnuts for a year and a dog lost in Oklahoma is reunited with his owner after eight years 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

Putrid plant, prodigious pepper

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2025/01/27

The Brooklyn Botanical Garden's rare corpse flower makes its first famously smelly bloom and a Mississippi group grows what might be the world's tallest cayenne pepper plant 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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04:48

Odds and Ends: Shark bites surfboard, Hemingway's...

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2025/01/24

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 shark that tried to make a meal out of an Australian surfer's board, a Chinese influencer's pull-up world record, a copy of "The Sun Always Rises" making a 56-year-late return to a Connecticut library, a snowy coyote rescue and another Guinness World Records title for David "Record-Breaker" Rush. For these stories

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03:06

TikTok-enabled iPhones on eBay, cow in a barbershop

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2025/01/23

TikTok's ongoing absence from the Apple and Google app stores leads to iPhones loaded with the app being listed for thousands of dollars on eBay and a cow causes chaos inside a barbershop in China 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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02:39

Mystery light, grilled hawk

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2025/01/22

A mysterious green light is caught on camera in the sky over Ontario, a red-tailed hawk is rescued from the front grill of an SUV and a cow escapes a trailer into Texas traffic 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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03:27

'Drug-addicted rats,' stuffed iguana emergency

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2025/01/21

Drugs stored in evidence lockers by the Houston Police Department are under seige from fiending rats and an iguana reported on the shoulder of a British Columbia highway turns out to be something else 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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03:30

Mountaineering goose, world's largest ice maze

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2025/01/15

U.S. Forest Service rangers rescue a goose stranded 10,000 feet up a California mountain, the Minnesota Ice Festival's ice maze earns a Guinness World Record and a cow wanders through the Kansas State University campus 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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03:22

Dinos on parade, 52 records in 52 weeks

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2025/01/13

A gathering of people dressed as dinosaurs breaks a Guinness World Record in Florida, a deer frees itself from a plastic jar in Chicago and Davd Rush breaks 52 Guinness World Records in 52 weeks 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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05:46

Odds and Ends: Loose lynx, underwater walking

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/01/10

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 lynx cats on the loose in Scotland, an Australian diver breaking the world record for walking underwater on a single breath, a runaway cow's Oregon adventure, a library book returned after 72 years and David Rush's latest Guinness World Records title. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the

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03:21

Don't eat your Christmas tree, red pandas escape zoo

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2025/01/09

Belgian food safety authorities warn residents not to eat their Christmas trees and a pair of red pandas escape from their enclosure at a Switzerland zoo 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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03:26

Christmas present found in wall after 46 years,...

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2025/01/08

An Illinois man doing renovations at his parents' house finds a Christmas present that was intended for him to open in 1978 and the Saskatchewan RCMP reveals the province's most unusual 911 calls of 2024 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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02:50

Town makes getting sick illegal, sea lion makes...

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2025/01/07

An Italian town's mayor issues a proclamation banning residents from getting sick or injured and a sea lion evades capture while making multiple visits to a Vancouver Island highway 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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03:20

Mystery bananas, monkey in a tutu

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2025/01/06

Residents of Beeston, England, try to solve the mystery of bananas left on a street corner each month, a tutu-wearing spider monkey is captured in Missouri and a Chinese man throws playing cards to break two world records 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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04:54

Odds and Ends: Toilet paper trouble, massive wave

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2025/01/03

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 toilet manufacturer's warning about improper use of toilet paper, a California surfer's potentially record-breaking wave, a drone operator's dog rescue, an escaped emu in Maryland and an Indian martial arts collective's stunt involving a sledgehammer, coconuts and a blindfold. For these stories and more, visit

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02:54

'Person-shaped' object in the water, happy new deer

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2025/01/02

A British marine rescue team responds to a report of a "person-shaped" object in the water, a reptile wrangler finds a deadly snake hiding inside a lawn mower and a deer is rescued from between the slats of a fence on New Year's Day 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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