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UPI Odd News Minute Ben Hooper
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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 lottery wins -- it's the best news you'll hear all day.
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Odds and Ends: 'Star Wars' novice wanted, lime green puppy
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 website offering to pay $1,000 to someone who has never seen a "Star Wars" movie, an alligator on an Air Force base, a lime green puppy born in Florida and a family of ducklings who wandered into a Marriott Hotel.
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Special episode: Greatest goats of all time
The UPI Odd News Minute is rounding up five of the best stories featuring goats, including tales of hoofed heroes escaping danger, climbing to new heights and not being ashamed to ask for "help."
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Gator trapped in pipe for 6 months, fastest mile ran in pool
An alligator is rescued after being stuck in a drainage pipe for six months, a poodle is extracted from beneath the kitchen floor of a home and a British man breaks a world record by running a mile through the water at a swimming pool.
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Bite-powered 'Seagull Boy' wins screeching contest, dog wanders into traffic tunnel
A 9-year-old British boy wins Europe's largest seagull-imitation contest and a dog shuts down the Legacy Tunnel in Brisbane, Australia, on today's UPI Odd News Minute.
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Stop bringing snakes to hospitals, 60 hours of chess
Australian doctors urge snake bite victims to stop bringing the offending serpents with them to the hospital, a Nigerian chess master fights through food poisoning to break a world record and a dog is found 17 days after escaping at a Melbourne airport on today's UPI Odd News Minute.
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Odds and Ends: Axe body spray for rams, drunk vultures
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 farmers using Axe body spray to cub aggression in rams, a pair of vultures that got drunk off fermented fruit, a stowaway snake on a Japanese bullet train and an update to the story of the mysterious object that crashed through the roof of a Naples, Fla., home.
For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.
Customer Reviews
Fun!!
I look forward to this every weekday! A quick way to catch up on the crazy news of the day. I recommend!
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This podcast really fills all of my odd news needs.