A New York train passenger is reunited with her lost backpack containing $12,000 cash, a team inspecting a Delaware home slated for demolition finds a message on a bottle inside a wall and a pig captured after a four-day crime spree in Colorado gets a new home on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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Pumpkins are impaled on the clock tower spires at the University of Plymouth in a mysterious annual tradition, a dog is rescued from a narrow ledge in London, an Oregon steer might be the tallest in the world and a nearly 11-foot crocodile visits a police station on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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Britain's University of Exeter offers a master's degree course in magic and occult science, Google's "Frightgeist" index reveals this year's top Halloween costume searches and an African serval is on the loose in Illinois on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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A purported mountain lion in central Pennsylvania turns out to be a feral house cat, a new chili called Pepper X is officially the hottest in the world and a long-lost X-wing model from the original 1977 "Star Wars" film is auctioned for $3.13 million on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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The UPI Odd News Minute presents five stories of senior citizens making history -- and odd news headlines -- with their late-in-life accomplishments.

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A bathtub blocks traffic on England's M5 highway, a Seattle woman amasses a world record collection of rubber ducks, a bear breaks into a Connecticut home to steal a frozen lasagna and a peacock is arrested in Georgia on todays UPI Odd News Minute.

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A swarm of mosquitoes aboard a plane delays a flight in Mexico, a New Zealand man bungee jumps 941 times in 24 hours, a bear steals a bag of gummy bears from a British Columbia gas station and a stranded cat is rescued from atop a Pennsylvania utility pole on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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A Florida road construction project leads to the discovery of a buried boat from the 1800s, a cat is found in California 12 years after being reported missing and a Missouri man paddles more than 38 miles in a giant pumpkin boat on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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A Minnesota farmer's 2,749-pound pumpkin is a new world record, a book on tomato growing is returned to a Scottish library after 50 years, residents report black panther sightings in a Louisiana parish and a rat climbs out from under the hood of a moving car in New York on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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A runner in the Chicago Marathon stops at mile 21 to rescue a kitten, a chair dangling from an abandoned New Jersey home becomes a topic of local and online fascination, a herd of up to four dozen cows take over a Wisconsin neighborhood and an Illinois teacher's 53-year tenure earns a Guinness World Record on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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