Today's Top Odd News Story
Fat Bear Week opens for Alaska’s heavyweight crown. Can Chunk, the 1,200-pound champ, win again?
After a summer spent packing away sockeye salmon, Alaska’s heftiest brown bears are ready to throw their weight around More »
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A raccoon boot camp in Mississippi teaches abandoned kits survival skills
A Mississippi wildlife rescue gives abandoned and injured baby raccoons their best chance of survival through a program they call “raccoon boot camp.” More »
A Brazilian serial killer dressed as a woman, hid in the woods and was nicknamed 'mosquito'
A man who Brazilian authorities say killed 16 people lived in the woods to avoid capture and was nicknamed “mosquito” by locals because of his frail build, the Brazilian police investigator responsible for his arrest said Monday More »
Amateur archaeologist finds Germany’s biggest hoard of ancient Roman silver coins
An amateur archaeologist has discovered a significant hoard of Roman silver coins in western Germany More »
A truck driver built a model of NYC with over 800,000 structures for fun. Now it's a museum exhibit
A truck driver who spent two decades building a massive scale model of his native New York City was delighted when it went viral on TikTok More »
Sun, sea and soldiers: Greek island tourists get front-row seats for military drills
Tourists on the Greek island of Crete got an unexpected, front-row view of Medusa 15, a major military exercise led by Greece and Egypt More »
A tip about a swerving van leads police to 66,000 US silver coins in a fraud case
Police investigating a money laundering case in Norway have recovered thousands of U.S. silver coins More »
Romania sets Guinness record with miles-long table, raises funds for pediatric psychiatry hospital
Thousands of people have gathered in Romania’s capital to set a Guinness World Record with a miles-long table made of recycled materials More »
English village votes to leave the UK over migrant housing plan
A small English village has voted to leave the U.K. in a symbolic independence referendum More »
Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area
Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area on a habitat restoration project when something that didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye More »
