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From just a little off to downright ludicrous. The best odd news @AP has to offer.
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Erasing time: An Arctic Norwegian island with 69 days of constant light in the summer wants to become the world's first time-free zone. #odd.
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A District of Columbia clerk and a supervisor refuse to accept a New Mexico man's state driver's license for a marriage license. The reason? They thought New Mexico was a foreign country. #odd.
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Florida woman faces an aggravated assault charge after authorities say she passed gas in line at a dollar store and pulled a knife on a man who complained about it. #odd.
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Florida man re-arrested within minutes after he was released from jail for burglarizing cars in the jail's parking lot. #odd.
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Buck up: Dollar Tree, the national chain of stores that promises everything for a buck, will begin introducing items on its shelves that will exceed $1. #odd.
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Ten football players at a Northern Illinois high school suspended from the team for three games after they ran across a field naked with Oreo cookies wedged between their buttocks. #odd.
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The good news: A homeless man gave his last $20 to a woman who ran out of gas. The better news: The woman and her boyfriend have raised over $20,000 for the man. #odd.
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Saving Grace: A Minnesota man who opted to have “Jesus Saves” printed on his running bib collapsed during a race. Behind him, a registered nurse anesthetist, a man named Jesus, performed CPR and helped save his life. #odd.
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A cat named "Pawfficer Donut" is sworn in to serve at a suburban Detroit police department. #odd.
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Police: Man arrested for public intoxication claims he traveled back from the year 2048 to warn of aliens. #odd.
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Wonderful spread: Israeli rescuers have discovered that mayonnaise is a miracle cure for sea turtles suffering from the effects of an oil spill. They found that feeding the reptiles mayo helps clean their system and breaks down tar. #odd.
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After taking off in the 13th hour on Friday the 13th, Flight 666 arrives safely in HEL. #odd.
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Mummy, can you hear me? Researchers say they've mimicked the voice of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy by recreating much of its vocal tract using medical scanners, 3D printing and an electronic larynx. #odd
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A service dog named Griffin receives an honorary diploma for accompanying his owner through class and field work as she earned a master's degree in occupational therapy. #odd.
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An upstate New York doughnut shop sells hundreds of doughnuts with Dr. Anthony Fauci's face, surrounded by white frosting and topped off with patriotic sprinkles. #odd.
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90 minutes and $500 worth of broken champagne and wine bottles later, peacock apprehended in LA liquor store. #odd
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More good news: An anonymous donor pays off all the items on layaway at a Pennsylvania Walmart, giving 200 families a holiday gift. #odd.
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Ice breaker: Fossils from New Zealand reveal a giant penguin that was about the size of a grown man. In fact, it was about as big as Sidney Crosby, captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins. #odd.
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More good news: A homeless man who used his last $20 to fill up the gas tank of a stranded motorist outside Philadelphia buys a home with some of the nearly $400,000 the woman he saved raised for him. #odd.
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I'm going to take you down: Yasmina, a female red panda, eyes up an ice block with frozen fruits inside at Dublin Zoo. #odd
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A Minnesota baby girl was born on Veterans Day _ the 11th day of the 11th month _ at 11:11 p.m. #odd.
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Working like a dog: Hatty the Labrador retriever is sworn in at the state's attorney's office in Chicago. Hatty will work on a 9-to-5 schedule. #odd.
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Flying solo: A Lithuanian man flying to Italy gets a pleasant surprise: He was the only passenger on a Boeing 737-800. The plane can hold up to 188 people. #odd.
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They've been spotted: Zoo Miami welcomes the births of two highly endangered clouded leopards. #odd.
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Owl is well: Rockefeller, the tiny owl that was found dehydrated and hungry in the branches of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, is eating its way back to good health and is set to be released back into the wild Saturday. #odd.
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Titan tater: A New Zealand couple unearthed a huge 17.4-pound potato that is quite possibly the largest on record. It could also be the ugliest. “We couldn't believe it. It was just huge.” They have named it Doug. #odd.
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Gatoraide: Pennsylvania man says his emotional support alligator named Wally helps with his depression. "He's just like a dog. He wants to be loved and petted." #odd.
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Man repeatedly screams "there's no Santa Claus" during a holiday festival in Florida. #odd.
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Police say a Florida man, wearing Crocs, gets bitten in the foot after jumping into a pond full of crocodiles. #odd.
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Punxsutawney Phil, Pennsylvania's most famous prognosticating groundhog, doesn't see his shadow, predicting an early spring. #odd.
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'Possum on a gum bush:' Opossum breaks into a Florida liquor store and gets drunk as a skunk. #odd.
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Circle of life: A male baboon decides to carry and groom a lion cub in South Africa's Kruger National Park. #odd.
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Here Kitty! This may not surprise many cat owners, but a new study says our feline friends can respond to the sound of their own names. #odd.
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Buffet brawl: Police say diners were using tongs like fencing swords after a dispute over crab legs escalated at an Alabama restaurant. #odd.
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A New Jersey school district apologizes for a substitute teacher who told first-grade students that Santa Claus isn't real. #odd.
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Lettuce menace: Maine woman prepares a salad for lunch, but after a couple of bites, notices a 3-inch lizard, minus the tail. #odd.
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UPDATE: School officials say a substitute teacher who told first-grade students in New Jersey that Santa Claus isn't real will not be returning to the school. #odd.
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This story gets better and better: NJ woman's fundraiser to help homeless man who came to her roadside aid has generated more than $385,000 _ enough to buy him a home and a truck #odd.
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“She comes every day around 9 a.m. and waits until nightfall. She doesn’t go in.” A devoted dog spent days waiting outside a hospital in Turkey where her sick owner was receiving treatment. #odd.
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Huge for being huge: Knickers the 6-foot-4 inch steer is too beefy to become burgers, so he's won a reprieve to live out his days on a farm in Australia. #odd.
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A dog named Kingston is reunited with his family 101 days after he jumped out of their truck as they fled a devastating California wildfire. #odd.
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Butterfly sky: Forecasters say cloud-like pattern drifting across Denver a 70-mile-wide wave of butterflies. #odd.
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Wave of emotion: A Hawaii man was surfing with his girlfriend when — instead of hanging 10 — he knelt down on one knee on his board and proposed. #odd.
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Holy Guacamole! A Hawaii family wins a spot with the Guinness World Records for the world's heaviest avocado at 5.6 pounds. #odd.
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Police say a Florida man threatening his neighbors with nunchucks and bug spray was arrested, sustaining a cut after he accidently hit himself in the head with his weapon. #odd.
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Who's the daddy? A zoo in Switzerland says a paternity test on a baby orangutan finds the father is an 18-year-old who lives in the next enclosure, not the male living in the same enclosure. #odd.
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UPDATE: A raccoon that scaled more than 20 stories of a high-rise office building in Minnesota has made it to the roof. #odd.
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A gator that caters: A Pennsylvania man says his emotional support alligator named Wally helps him deal with his depression. He says the reptile likes to snuggle and give hugs. #odd.
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A 93-year-old Ohio man wrapped up his nearly seven decades of golfing with his first hole-in-one. #odd.
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A Michigan city has a new Mother’s Day memory. A 350-pound bear was in a tree for hours on Sunday before it fell onto a mattress as dozens of people watched. “It’s like the best block party ever,” a woman said.
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"It is like Tinder, but with dogs." Animal lovers in Lithuania create a mobile application inspired by the popular dating app Tinder to match up dogs in local shelters with new owners. #odd.
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Chill the ban: A 9-year-old boy has convinced the leaders of a small Colorado town to overturn a nearly century-old ban on snowball fights, and he already knows who his first target will be: his little brother. #odd.
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Cow's new pals: A farmyard cow in Poland chooses freedom, decides to roam with a bison herd after escaping its pen. #odd.
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Baby boom: Nine nurses who work in the labor and delivery unit at the largest hospital in Maine are expecting babies in the next few months. #odd.
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It's toilet time for John Oliver. The Danbury City Council has voted 18-1 to rename a sewage plant after the comedian, in a bit of tongue-in-cheek revenge over his rant against the Connecticut city on his HBO show. #odd.
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MIT pranksters drape the university's signature Great Dome with a giant cloth version of Captain America's red, white and blue shield. #odd.
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“There’s a lemur! There’s a lemur!” A 5-year-old boy helps recapture Maki, an arthritic 21-year-old ring-tailed lemur that police say was abducted from the San Francisco Zoo. The boy was rewarded with a lifetime zoo membership. #odd.
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A California fire department posts pictures of the busted-out windows of a car that parked in front of a fire hydrant. #odd.
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An Arizona bird rescue center is trying to find the owner of a pigeon found wearing a bedazzled vest. #odd.
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Archaeologists working in California sand dunes dig up an intact plaster sphinx that was part of a movie set built more than 90 years ago for Cecil B. DeMille's epic "The Ten Commandments" #odd.
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Rat's all: After five years of sniffing out land mines in Cambodia, Magawa is retiring. The African giant pouched rat has cleared the equivalent of some 20 soccer fields, and was so good at his job he won an award previously reserved for dogs. #odd.
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"This is the best Christmas present I could ever imagine having:" Two Hawaii men who grew up as best friends recently learn that they're actually brothers. #odd.
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Authorities say a black bear somehow locked itself inside a Montana home and then nestled onto a closet shelf that wasn't too hard, wasn't too soft, but just right for a nap. #odd.
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An 89-year-old man in Rhode Island earned his Ph.D. and became a physicist after working toward it for two decades and thinking about it for a lifetime. Manfred Steiner recently successfully defended his dissertation at Brown University in Providence. #odd.
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Kiss the calf: Newborn calf has strikingly similar black-and-white facial markings to rocker Gene Simmons. #odd.
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Slip out the back, yak: Virginia authorities say a yak named Meteor was on its last ride to the butcher's shop when it managed to escape out of a trailer. The animal is still on the loose. #odd.
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Arya kidding? Kansas Man asks judge for permission to battle his ex-wife and her lawyer in a trial by combat. He also asked for 12 weeks to procure samurai swords. #odd.
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Live Nativity scene? Authorities discover a camel, a cow and a donkey roaming together along a Kansas road. Police asked for help in locating the owners of the “three friends traveling together (towards a Northern star).” #odd.
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A-maze-ing: Indiana farmer plants a corn maze in tribute of 'Star Wars' actress Carrie Fisher. #odd.
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'Obsceni mankinis' UPDATE: Sacha Baron Cohen offers to pay the fines for six Czech tourists for dressing up in skimpy 'Borat' swimsuits.
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A 62-year-old man tried to disguise a fake skeleton as a passenger just to use the HOV lane before an Arizona state trooper pulled him over. The skeleton was sitting upright, wearing a hat and was tied to the front seat. #odd.
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Philadelphia Zoo gorilla gives birth to a healthy baby with medical techniques typically used for human babies. #odd.
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Connecticut man who says he was wrongly cited for distracted driving after police mistook a McDonald's hash brown for a cellphone is continuing his legal fight. #odd.
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The cat's back: A Spanish nature conservation center says that the first baby lynx has been born in the Pyrenees in nearly a century. #odd.
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Does he everest? A Sherpa guide has scaled Mount Everest for the 25th time, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world’s highest peak. Kami Rita, 51, first scaled Everest in 1994 and has been making the trip nearly every year. #odd.
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Cheetah's octuplets: A cheetah named Bingwa at the St. Louis Zoo is a proud mother _ eight times over. #odd.
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“He won’t leave your house until you give him a treat.” A Labrador retriever named Eros is an essential worker in Medellin, Colombia. He helps keep social distancing measures by delivering vegetables, fruit and packaged foods to market customers. #odd.
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Taking a paws: Palmerston, the chief mouser at the U.K. Foreign Office, retires after after four long, hard years on the job. “I have found life away from the front line relaxed, quieter, and easier,” a letter signed with two paw prints said. #odd.
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A U.S. aircraft flying a mission in the Middle East used the call sign “PIKLRICK” – an apparent nod to the cartoon “Rick and Morty.” A spokeswoman said the call sign did not follow regulations and "we’ve provided that feedback to the airmen involved.”
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"Shut up! Are you serious?" Payless teaches fashion influencers a lesson about shoes by opening a fake store that sold Main Street shoes at Madison Avenue prices. #odd.
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Rebel with the claws: More than 90 years after starting, Maine's oldest lobster harvester is still doing it at age 101. “I've done it all my life, so I might as well keep doing it," Virginia Oliver said. #odd.
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What is it? A curious visitor to a Maine train museum that resembled a throw pillow or perhaps a lost toupee turned out to be a rare albino porcupine. #odd.
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A New Hampshire voter who was told she couldn’t wear an anti-Trump shirt at a polling place because it violated electioneering rules simply whipped it off and did her civic duty topless. #odd.
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Unlucky bandit: Police say a man who had just robbed a bank in Maine ran across four lanes of traffic and a restaurant parking lot before slipping on ice and spilling his gun and money in front of a state police special agent. #odd.
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Animals enjoy a nice view too: A photo taken by an employee at the Omni Mount Washington Resort shows a black bear holding onto a rail on the veranda and looking out. #odd.
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Pass from the past: The New England Aquarium in Boston accepted an entrance ticket first purchased in 1983 that allows the holder to return “at anytime in the future.” #odd.
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A teen searching for arrowheads in Iowa finds something much bigger: the prehistoric jawbone of a mastodon. #odd.
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Purrsonality: Tissy the cat bucks stereotypes by regularly cooling off in the family pool in Pennsylvania. #odd.
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Bringing down the house: A photo of a demolished South Dakota house with the words "Got the Spider!" painted on the roof has makes the rounds on social media. #odd.
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Still looking good at 40,000: Russian scientists find the head of an Ice Age wolf perfectly preserved in the Siberian permafrost. #odd.
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Snaking it happen: St. Louis Zoo officials are trying to solve the mystery of how a 62-year-old ball python laid seven eggs without being around a male python for at least two decades. #odd.
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Triple treat: On Wednesday, much of the world will get to see not only a blue moon and a supermoon, but also a total lunar eclipse, all rolled into one. #odd.
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"My name is Jenny, I didn't run away, I'm just going for a walk." A 22-year-old horse takes daily strolls through a neighborhood in Germany. #odd.
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Happy Birthday to Roo! A kangaroo named Paul becomes the oldest living tree kangaroo in the U.S. #odd.
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Eagle downs drone: A bald eagle launches an aerial assault on a drone operated by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. The bird ripped off a propeller and sent the aircraft into Lake Michigan. #odd.
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Police say a Texas woman attempted to hide evidence during an arrest by defecating in her pants and using the feces to conceal drugs. #odd.
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Shellfless: Hundreds of baby turtles have been rescued from storm drains along the Jersey Shore. Volunteers rescued 826 diamondback terrapin hatchlings from drains in Margate, Ventnor and Ocean City. #odd.
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Potty mouth parrots: A British zoo separates five foul-mouthed parrots who keepers say were encouraging each other to swear. #odd.
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