Archive for November 2024

Firefighters and veterinarians in Colorado teamed up to rescue a kitten found with its head poking out through a small hole in a dumpster.

Authorities in Pennsylvania are hot on the trail of an unusual suspect “wanted for evading police” — a loose pig.

Sweden’s minister for gender equality and work life allegedly suffers from an irrational fear of bananas that prevents her from coming anywhere near the popular fruit. Paulina Brandberg first mentioned her banana phobia in a since-deleted 2020 tweet, describing it as “the world’s weirdest phobia,” but the issue recently resurfaced and made national news in…

A North Carolina man who won $500 from a scratch-off lottery ticket decided to try again and scored a $1 million prize.

Police in Lincolshire, England, are asking members of the public to stop using all-terrain vehicles to chase an escaped emu in the area.

Residents of a seaside town in England are being asked to keep an eye out for a flamingo chick that flew the coop from a local zoo.

Florida’s Orlando Science Center announced it officially broke a Guinness World Record when 300 people launched paper rockets at the same time.

A 37-year-old mental health therapist was dubbed the winner of Chicago’s Jeremy Allen White look-alike contest, scoring $50 and a pack of Marlboro Red cigarettes for his resemblance to “The Bear” star.

A plane was grounded for four days at a Portuguese airport when 132 hamsters escaped from boxes in the cargo hold.

An Arkansas woman won $200,000 from a scratch-off lottery ticket she received as a birthday gift from her son.