UPI Odd News Minute

A deer is rescued after spending two days trapped in a Wisconsin basement and a drone pilot finds a missing dog that traversed 25 miles long the New Jersey Turnpike 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 .

An escaped monkey rampages through a musical instrument store in Tennessee and a police report generated by AI falsely claims a police officer was turned into a frog 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 .

Happy New Year! The UPI Odd News Minute kicks off 2026 with the stories of an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest polar bear dip in Washington and an Iowa hospital using a portable X-ray to find a patient's missing rings. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News . Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube and TikTok .

A Florida family finds an alligator taking a late night swim in their backyard pool and Rex the wallaby is safely captured after returning to a New Jersey Walmart store on the final UPI Odd News Minute of 2025. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube and TikTok.

An escaped wallaby named Rex visits a Walmart in New York and police rescue a deer with a bag stuck over its head 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 .

Firefighters in Binghamton, New York, come to the rescue of a squirrel stuck in a dumpster and a British rowing team crossing the Atlantic Ocean stops to help a sea turtle entangled in a discarded fishing 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 .

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias reveals some of the most "inappropriate" vanity license plates rejected by the state in 2025 and a Chinese robot designed to play badminton breaks a 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 .

Ticket reseller StubHub apologizes for advertising a Christian spiritual performance as a Lamb of God heavy metal band show and London's St. John the Baptist church is packed with pooches for the annual Carols with Pets services. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube and TikTok .

A trap set up to capture a bear living under a California man's home captures the wrong bruin and a Florida family's mailbox is taken out by a speeding horse 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 .

Official-looking signs offer bizarre instructions in Christchurch, New Zealand, and a beaver is rescued after several days swimming in a Texas reservoir 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 .

A British sandwich shop owner sings Christmas songs for 42 hours to break a world record, two reindeer escape onto a California highway and Canadian researchers document a rare case of a mother polar bear adopting an orphaned cub 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 .

A koala takes a ride on a city bus in Brisbane, Australia, and a Colorado neighborhood fights HOA management to keep a 28-foot inflatable Santa on display 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 .

Tulsa County sheriff's deputies help wrangle a loose kangaroo named Martha in Oklahoma and a German man breaks his own Guinness World Record by collecting 11,000 snow globes 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 .

The DowntownDC Business Improvement District breaks the Guinness World Record for the most people kissing under mistletoe and a D.C. woman's home is flooded with unwanted Amazon packages 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 .

The UPI Odd News Minute presidents Weekend Odds & Ends, our weekly roundup off the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make this week's podcasts. This week's stories include horse that visited New York's JFK Airport, an attempt to assemble the world's largest Lego mural in Switzerland, a loon that became stranded on a Maine lake and an update on the raccoon that broke into a Virginia liquor s...

A Swedish musician teaches his pet octopus to play piano and a woman gives birth in a driverless Waymo cab en route to a San Francisco hospital 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 .

In-N-Out Burger removes the number "67" from its order ticketing system due to the viral "6-7" trend and a Pittsburgh group makes an attempt at the worlds largest Christmas cookie exchange 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 .

England's National Highways reveals a boat and a fairground ride were among the abandoned items removed from the country's roadways this year and a deer breaks into a Tennessee Christmas 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 .

The UPI Odd News Minute presents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly roundup of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make this week's podcasts. This week's record-breaking stories include the world's fastest garden shed, a dog's long tonue, a bungee-jumping daredevil and David Rush's half-marathon while wearing 127 T-shirts. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI...

A raccoon breaks into a Virginia liquor store and passes out drunk in the bathroom and a New Zealand news reporter is struck in the face by a seagull 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 .

GameStop pays a customer $30,494.70 for a Holo Gengar Pokemon card and a British hotel unveils the country's first balloon Christmas 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 .

One of Santa's reindeer escapes from a Christmas event in England and a California man finds a bear living in the crawlspace of his home 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.

A coyote creates a scene on a ledge outside of a Florida hotel and a "bovine brigade" stages a moonlight escape 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 .

A teddy bear lifted into the upper atmosphere by a weather balloon launched by a school in England is missing after his fall to earth and a German horse is dubbed the smallest in the world 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 .

Chinese tech firm AgiBot breaks a world record by taking its A2 humanoid robot for a 66-mile walk, a 95-year-old Texas man is certified as the world's oldest bus driver and a fox seen wandering with a drainage pipe stuck around its neck is rescued 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 .