A Washington city council candidate who didn't vote for himself loses by a single vote, a live bomb served as a garden decoration at a Wales home for over a century and a kangaroo is captured after escaping an Ontario zoo on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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The UPI Odd News Minute presents five causes of surprising -- and sometimes smelly -- discoveries made in toilets, ranging from wild animals to precious jewelry.

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A Florida man is amassing the world's largest collection of "Titanic" VHS tapes, a newspaper offers to air your grievances for Festivus and the world's oldest living land animal turns 191 on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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The sunrise aligns with New York's street grid in a phenomenon known as "reverse Manhattanhenge," a husky is rescued from a storm drain in Kentucky, police wrangle an escaped cow near a Saskatchewan highway and an Indian woman earns the world record for the longest hair on a living person on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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Researchers find witch bottles washed up on Texas beaches, a private island is for sale in the Florida Keys and a large ram or goat prompts the closing of a recycling center on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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A disoriented wallaby is rescued from the surf off an Australian beach, a deer breaks into a TJ Maxx store in Maine, a 2-year-old Kentucky girl becomes the youngest member of Mensa and a missing Colorado dog is found after nearly two months on a mountain trail on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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Happy Thanksgiving from the UPI Odd News Minute! Today's special episode covers five of the most expensive foods in the world, including a grilled cheese sandwich and a serving of ice cream.

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In preparation for Thanksgiving, today's UPI Odd News Minute runs down five stories of traditional turkey day foods that didn't quite make it to the table.

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An Australian man attempting to keep birds away from his cat's food accidentally creates a "magpie god," New Zealand police find apparent human hair sticking out from the trunk of a car was a mannequin head, a 3.5-foot lizard found wandering the streets of Texas is returned home and a circus performer juggles while slacklining to break a world record on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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A llama is rescued from a busy highway in Ontario, an Indian woman has 38 teeth in her mouth, blue rubber balls wash up on British beaches and a pilot returns a book found at an Atlanta airport to a Kansas library on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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