UPI Odd News Minute

UPI Odd News Minute

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UPI Odd News Minute episodes

  • Odds and Ends: 639-pound hip thrust, Maryland highway cow

    The UPI Odd News Minute presidents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly roundup of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make this week's podcasts. Today's stories include a Florida woman breaking the Guinness World Record for the heaviest weighted hip thrust, a cow wandering onto a Baltimore County highway, the world's longest freight train and a moose that had "beef with some wire."

    4 min
  • Oklahoma caiman, pelicans fly the coop

    A caiman on the loose for months is captured in an Oklahoma creek and two pelicans escape from he Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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    3 min
  • Lime e-bikes 'not for jousting,' Minnesota 'space object'

    E-bike rental company Lime responds to a viral video by specifying its bikes are "not for jousting" and a mysterious metal object found in a Minnesota cornfield is suspected to have fallen from space on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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    3 min
  • Airport bird attack, world's largest cowboy hat

    A green bird that may have been a parrot flies into Chicago's O'Hare Airport to attack passengers and a Texas racetrack's massive cowboy hat earns a Guinness World Record on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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    3 min
  • Olive Picking Championship, funny campaign signs

    A country without a single olive tree wins the World Olive Picking Championship in Croatia and a British Columbia man whose tongue-in-cheek campaign signs branded him as unqualified wins a city council election on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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    4 min
  • Odds and Ends: Scrapple sculptures, prosthetic beak

    The UPI Odd News Minute presidents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly roundup of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make this week's podcasts. Today's stories include Philadelphia's annual scrapple sculpting contest, a bird getting a new beak, the fastest time to drink orange soda and the latest installment of The Afternoon Rush.

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    5 min
  • Bear steals honey from library, world's longest horse tail

    A bear wanders into a California library to steal a jar of honey on Winnie-the-Pooh's 100th birthday and an Ohio horse officially has the longest tail in the world on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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    3 min
  • Inflatable pumpkin escape, estate sale grenades

    A giant inflatable pumpkin blows away from a North Carolina farm to roll down a road and a box purchased from a Texas estate sale turns out to be full of live grenades dating from World War II on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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    2 min
  • Cat steals dog food from neighbor's house, another record pumpkin

    A London cat is caught on camera entering a neighbor's house to steal a dog's dinner and a Rhode Island man's giant pumpkin breaks a world record that has stood for less than a month on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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    3 min
  • Odds and Ends: Bike drop, bear in a restaurant

    The UPI Odd News Minute presidents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly roundup of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make this week's podcasts. Today's stories include a mountain biker breaking a world record with a vertical drop, a bear that wandered into a restaurant, a pet iguana rescued from a tree and the latest installment of The Afternoon Rush.

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    5 min

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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…