Archive for October 2026

The World Olive Picking Championship in Croatia ended with a surprise when the top spot went to Finland — a country without any olive trees.

A British Columbia city council candidate whose humorous campaign signs went viral appears to have won, despite branding himself as unqualified.

A South Carolina man found making a quick stop at the store after work paid off when he scored $500,000 from a scratch-off lottery ticket.

Workers sifting through returns at a British Columbia discovered a dusty tome without a barcode was 43 years overdue.

A Quebec animal rescue group shared video of a “particularly impressive technical rescue” involving three dogs stranded on a narrow rocky ledge.

A quartet of New Zealand engineering students created a robot that solved a 4x4x4 Rubik’s cube in a record-breaking time of 9.8 seconds.

A southern ground hornbill at a Netherlands zoo has become the first bird in the world to receive 3D-printed prosthesis on both its upper and lower beak.

The California Highway Patrol helped wrangle a loose emu spotted running in and out of traffic on a Santa Cruz road.

A Maryland woman bought two identical tickets for a single lottery drawing and wound up winning two $50,000 prizes for a total windfall of $100,000.

Amateur sculptors descended on a Philadelphia market to create works of art from scrapple — a pork-based breakfast mush — in an annual contest.