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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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05:05

Odds and Ends: Attack squirrel, Michigan croc

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2025/09/26

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 "very mean squirrel" terrorizing a California neighborhood, a crocodile found wandering loose in a Michigan yard, a 2.79-carat discovery at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas and 105-year-old Ohio nun enjoying a round of golf for her birthday. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the

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02:55

Crab rides first class, orange lobster rescued

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/09/25

A crab is found riding in its own first class seat on a South Western Railway train in England and an orange crab is rescued from the tank at a Long Island grocery store 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

Macaw's suburban adventure, running on all fours

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/09/24

A pet macaw escapes during a camping trip and takes a self-guided tour of the Chicago suburbs and a Japanese man breaks a world record for running on all fours 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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03:11

Fat Bear Week begins, Washington farm break-out

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/09/23

Katmai National Park reveals this year's Fat Bear Week bracket, multiple animals escape from a Washington farm and Utah rescuers save a senior dog stuck in the mud 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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02:59

Amon-Ra St. Brown corn maze, Chicagohenge

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/09/22

A Michigan corn maze pays tribute to Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown's viral headstand, Chicagohenge frames the rising and setting sun and Florida deputies lasso an alligator trespassing on a woman's front porch 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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05:21

Ig Nobel Prizes, drunk chimps

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/09/19

The Annals of Improbable Research award the 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes for unsual scientific research and a California team finds chimpanzees ingest the equivilant of two alcoholic drinks per day on today's highly-scientific 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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02:25

Monkey escapes zoo, real-life "Candy Crush"

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/09/18

A capuchin monkey escapes from a North Carolina zoo and a truck crash covers a New Jersey highway in M&M's chocolate candy 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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02:41

Pulling a car while on fire, deer fails at soccer

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/09/17

An Austrian daredevil pulls a car 100 meters while his body is engulfed in flames and Long Island animal rescuers help a buck entangled in a soccer net 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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03:11

Stone skipping cheaters, nope rope in the road

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/09/16

A cheating scandal nearly sinks the World Stone Skimming Championships in Scotland and a boa constrictor is found slithering across a Pennsylvania road 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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03:10

Woman punches alligator, Ryans gather for Rytoberfest

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/09/15

A Florida woman punches an alligator to rescue her dog and hundreds of Ryans gather for Rytoberfest in New York 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

Immaculate lizard conception, raccoon porch pirate

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/09/11

An iguana at a British zoo hatches eight babies without a father and a raccoon raids a package on a New York porch 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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02:25

Kevin's great adventure, lizard in a tree

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/09/10

A pet pigeon named Kevin stows away in a stranger's pickup truck and firefighters rescue a lizard from a 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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03:15

Ding-dong-ditch slug, K-9 tracker finds bear

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/09/09

A ding-dong-ditch prankster at a Bavarian apartment building is identified as a slug, a Florida K-9 unit hunting for a suspect in the woods comes face-to-face with a bear and David Rush spits ping pong balls at a wall to break his own Guinness World Record 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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02:53

Drunk raccoon CPR, boar in the house

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/09/08

A Kentucky nurse uses CPR to save the life of a baby raccoon that got drunk from eating fermented peaches and Florida sheriff's deputies respond to a "not-so-typical burglary" involving a home-invading wild boar 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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04:16

Odds and Ends: Cornhole slingshot, pygmy hippo born

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/09/05

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 sailboat that washed up on a South Carolina beach, a juvenile great horned owl rescued from a soccer net, the Guinness World Record for the farthest cornhole shot using a slingshot and the birth of a pygmy hippo calf at the John Ball Zoo in Michigan. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the

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02:30

Barefoot woman runs across Legos, bison escapes for...

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/09/04

A New Zealand woman breaks the Guinness World Record for running 100 meters barefoot across a track of Lego bricks and a bison escapes its enclosure in Poland and raids a neighbor's garden 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

Wallet found after 51 years, kangaroo jailbreak

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/09/03

Workers renovating an Ontario high school find a wallet lost by a student in 1974 and multiple kangaroos escape from the Waco Wildlife Rescue in Texas 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

Toucan behind the dishwasher, long-lost time capsule

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/09/02

A trapped toucan is rescued from behind his owner's dishwasher in Virginia and a New York high school finally finds a long-lost time capsule that had been meant to be opened in 2017 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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05:23

Odds and Ends: Orange shark, free corn

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/08/29

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 the world's first documented orange nurse shark, a truck crash causing a Colorado county to give out free corn, a pair of Texas animal rescuers in a slippery situation and Connecticut's "Croc King" earning a Guinness World Records title. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News

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03:06

Car wash snake, deer in the pool

UPI Odd News Minute ·

2025/08/28

A large snake is found trespassing at a Texas car wash, a deer is rescued from a Michigan swimming pool and David Rush takes wet sponge hits to the face for Guinness World Records title 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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