(UPI) An Oklahoma police officer was called to a home in Moore to eject an unwanted trespasser: an opossum.

The Moore Police Department shared body camera footage on Instagram showing Officer Cody Garbani's visit to a home where residents found an intruding opossum.

The animal fled into the yard, where Garbani was able to corner it and grab ...Read more

(UPI) A Pizza Hut eatery in Ontario gained infamy online due to an unfortunate typo in a posted sign lamenting "unforeseen circumcisions."

The restaurant in Timmins posted a sign on its door that was meant to inform customers that the dining room would be closed due to "unforeseen circumstances," but a spelling error -- or interference from ...Read more

(UPI) Researchers doing a survey of seabirds in South Australia came across an unusual discovery -- a king penguin hundreds of miles from home.

Jeff Campbell, president of Friends of Shorebirds South East, said the group was performing a survey of bird populations in the Coorong area when they encountered the king penguin north of Kingston ...Read more

(UPI) A Washington woman bought four identical tickets for the same lottery drawing and ended up winning five top prizes -- a total $50,000.

The Everett woman, identified only as K.L., told Washington's Lottery officials her mother was on her mind when she bought her Match 4 tickets, so the numbers she selected were a combination of her mother'...Read more

(UPI) An 88-year-old gamer from China earned a Guinness World Record as the oldest video game content creator on video platform Bilibili.

Yang Binglin, aka "Grandpa Yang," became a viral sensation in China when he started sharing clips of his gaming sessions on video sharing platform Bilibili.

The Sichuan province man has more than 280,000 ...Read more

(UPI) A New Jersey animal shelter's Valentine's Day-themed fundraiser is drawing a lot of attention thanks to the facility's promise to "neuter your ex."

Homeward Bound Pet Adoption Center in Blackwood announced on social media that members of the public can make a $50 donation, and in exchange they will receive naming rights for one of the ...Read more

(UPI) Researchers in Canada are hoping to identify a shipwreck that washed up in southwestern Newfoundland and appears to be from the 1800s.

Residents near J.T. Cheeseman Provincial Park discovered the large chunk of an old wooden hull in the shallow waters near Cape Ray, as well as some timbers that washed up on the sand.

Corey Purchase, ...Read more

(UPI) Police in Alabama said a kangaroo seen hopping loose through a town was safely captured and returned to its owner.

Dee Miller captured video of the Australian marsupial hopping through Bessemer on Sunday night and posted it to social media, where it quickly spread among the local community.

"It was real fast," Miller told AL.com.

Miller...Read more

(UPI) A Florida reptile park announced its extremely rare white alligator baby has a new name: Mystic.

The leucistic alligator was born in December at Gatorland Orlando, and the park said in a Facebook post at the time that the reptile's arrival was "beyond rare."

Leucism is similar to albinism, but leucistic animals still have some pigment in...Read more

(UPI) Firefighters and sheriff's deputies in California came to the rescue of three dogs found stranded in a canal with steep walls.

The Tulare County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded alongside Tulare County Fire personnel when three German shepherds were found trapped in the Friant Kern Canal near Avenue 128.

"The dogs tried to climb ...Read more

(UPI) The South Carolina Education Lottery said there were a record 3,351 top prize winning tickets when a Pick 4 drawing resulted in the numbers 4-4-4-4.

Lottery officials said 3,351 winning tickets were purchased for Friday night's drawing, winning a total of more than $8.3 million in prizes being paid out.

Pick 4 winners earn prizes of ...Read more

(UPI) An Arizona man out kayaking and diving with his family in the Salt River found a wallet lost in the water in 1995 and was able to return it to its owner.

Jeremy Bingham of Mesa said he was on the river with his two brothers, two sisters and sons Taylor, 17, and Zachary, 14, when he found the tattered wallet about 15 feet below the surface...Read more

(UPI) A dedicated Swiftie from Pakistan broke a Guinness World Record by correctly identifying 34 Taylor Swift songs from their lyrics in one minute.

Bilal Ilyas Jhandir, 20, had to listen to the lyrics being read aloud by a man without any accompanying music to identify each song.

The record attempt included Swift's 50 best-selling songs ...Read more

(UPI) A North Carolina grandmother scored a $265,152 lottery jackpot by using her grandchildren's ages in a Cash 5 drawing.

Glenda Honeycutt of Monroe told North Carolina Education Lottery officials she always uses the same strategy for playing Cash 5.

"I always play my grandchildren's ages," Honeycutt said. I play them every night.

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(UPI) Officials in British Columbia revealed their list of personalized license plate applications that were rejected for reasons including abusive or sexually suggestive language.

The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, which is responsible for issuing license plates, said about 9,500 vanity plate applications were received in 2023, and...Read more