Archive for October 2026

A freight train in South Africa may have broken a world record by hauling 696 cars — making the train 4.7 miles long.

Mitchell Fairbarn told the court he was drunk and sleep-deprived when he grabbed “Peachy” by the neck in March.

The San Diego Zoo celebrated International Sloth Day with an appropriately-timed announcement: the birth of a baby Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth.

A Texas woman visiting Maryland was convinced by a stranger to play the lottery’s Racetrax game for the first time — and won $37,951.

An Idaho sheriff’s deputy came to the rescue of a moose found in Latah County with its head and body entangled in a roll of wire fencing.

Celebrate International Sloth Day with five Odd News stories of the slow-moving species breaking records and getting up to mischief.

A Texas racetrack celebrated its upcoming Formula 1 event by unveiling a sculpture of a cowboy hat that was confirmed to be the world’s largest.

Parks workers in Ohio shared photos and video of an unexpected discovery on a mountain bike trail: an escaped emu.

Firefighters in Texas rushed into action when one of several escaped horses along a busy highway would up stuck in a drainage ditch.

An exotic green bird flew into a terminal at Chicago O’Hare International Airport and was filmed fighting with passengers and airline workers.