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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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03:00

Italian island offering free goats, salmon spill into...

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2024/04/04

The mayor of an Italian island offers free goats to anyone who can catch them, an Oregon truck crash releases 77,000 salmon into the wrong body of water and an escaped cow causes traffic chaos in Utah on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

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03:16

Streaks of light in the sky over California, crow...

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2024/04/03

Happy first birthday to the UPI Odd News Minute! Today's stories include the identification of mysterious streaks of light in the night sky over California, a missing snake being found on a rooftop one year later and a territorial turkey's run-in with an umbrella-wielding school principal. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

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03:02

Space debris crashes through Florida roof, coin flips...

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2024/04/02

A piece of debris that crashed through a Florida roof may have come from the International Space Station, University of Amsterdam researchers conclude coin flips aren't 50/50 and a bear escapes from a zoo on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

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06:26

Special episode: April Fools' Day 2024 product pranks

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2024/04/01

Today's UPI Odd News Minute is running down the top 10 April Fools' Day pranks by corporations in 2024, whether you like it or not. Get your groans ready as we run down faux-products including Sour Cream & Onion soda, Ikea's INVSBÅL collection and Fruity Pebbles-flavored mac & cheese. Sorry in advance! For this story and all of the day's REAL odd news, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

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04:30

Odds and Ends: 'Baby hedgehog' mistaken identity,...

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2024/03/29

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 'baby hedgehog' that wasn't, a raccoon jailbreak, a lamb with five legs and a furry fugitive at a North Carolina airport. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

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03:11

Cinema's most infamous wooden plank auctioned, human...

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2024/03/28

The piece of wood that saved Rose's life at the end of "Titanic" sells for over $700,000, a horse is hoisted out of a Georgia swimming pool and a Chinese man earns a world record for an impressive -- and very gross -- skill on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

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02:44

Dog digs up bomb in owner's yard, ostrich's day out

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2024/03/27

A Florida man's dog digs up an old military bomb in his yard, a turkey smashes through the windshield of a truck on an Ontario highway and an ostrich escapes from a South Korean zoo on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

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03:00

'UFO' spotted over San Antonio, fat alligator gets...

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2024/03/26

A reported "UFO" over San Antonio is identified, a chonky alligator found living behind a former Coca-Cola plant in Florida gets put on a diet and a wolverine makes its way down the Oregon coast on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

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02:58

Lego asks police to stop using minifig heads in...

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2024/03/25

A California police department agrees to stop using Lego heads to hide the faces of suspects in social media photos, a Maine baseball team's whoopie pie event breaks a world record and bears at an England zoo play in a swan boat on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

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03:51

Odds and Ends: Two-headed snake gets surgery, toy car...

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2024/03/22

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 two-headed snake undergoing surgery in Missouri, a pair of Florida women traveling 500 miles of the state's coast in toy cars, a "long, strange trip" for a library book and a skunk with its head stuck in a peanut butter jar. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

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02:59

VTSU announces 'Weird Al' course, bear's trash heist

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2024/03/21

Vermont State University announces a new course studying the music of "Weird Al" Yankovic, a bear raids a California woman's trash and an Idaho man earns his 164th world record on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

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03:06

Tennessee alligator, trashed wallet

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2024/03/20

An east Tennessee angler reels in an alligator, New York sanitation workers help a woman recover her lost wallet and a parrot spends two days fending off hawk attacks in a Texas tree on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

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02:53

Bees escape overturned truck on the highway, students...

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2024/03/19

An overturned truck releases thousands of bees onto a Mississippi highway, California graduate students make it to every Bay Area Rapid Transit station in record time and two escaped porcupines make a spiny scene in a Scottish town on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

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03:00

Live grenade found in deceased man's home, 'Jughead'...

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2024/03/18

A woman cleaning out her deceased father's home in Quebec finds a live grenade, an English couple renovating their home find letters dating back nearly 100 years behind the fireplace and a Pennsylvania deer dubbed "Jughead" by neighbors is rescued from a plastic jug on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

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04:41

Odds and Ends: English town covered in bird poop,...

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2024/03/15

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 an unfortunate side-effect to the starling murmurations over an English town, a mysterious monolith on a Welsh hillside, a lost cat found a mile from home after seven years and a Missouri museum's world record for wearing underpants on the head. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

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03:06

'High' rats steal seized weed from police, world's...

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2024/03/14

The New Orleans Police Department complains of hungry rats stealing marijuana from the evidence room, the world's heaviest blueberry is grown in Australia and a post office in Antarctica is hiring three people to sort mail and count penguins on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

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02:45

Wildlife rescuer's fox fursona, bald eagle gets stuck...

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2024/03/13

A Virginia wildlife rescuer disguises herself as a red fox to feed an orphaned kit, a dog is rescued from an old underground grain storage bin in Utah and bald eagle gets stuck butt-first in the front grille of a car in Maryland on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

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03:00

California highway covered in TP, $18,000 Lego piece

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2024/03/12

A California highway is covered in hundreds of rolls of toilet paper, a rare Lego piece donated to a Pennsylvania Goodwill store sells for $18,100 and a stray dog takes a British Columbia commuter train on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

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03:00

Message in a bottle found after 40 years, cardboard...

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2024/03/11

A message in a bottle launched by three Scottish girls is found after 40 years, homemade cardboard sleds race down a Pennsylvania mountain and a Ukrainian strongman breaks records using his beard, neck and teeth on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

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04:44

Odds and Ends: 'Balls Out Bowling,' dummy dog rescue

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2024/03/08

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 Pennsylvania nudism group's "Balls Out Bowling" event, a dog rescue in England that took an unexpected turn, a Missouri museum's attempt at an underpants world record and a belated happy birthday to the world's oldest living person. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

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