Fireworks truck catches fire on highway, baby birds hatch on police motorcycle

Tourist attraction closed due to poop, 7-year-old sets sweater-wearing record

A New Zealand tourist attraction is temporarily closed after multiple incidents involving human feces and a Pennsylvania 7-year-old wears 50 sweaters at the same time to break a Guinness World Record on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. [https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/] Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@UPIOddNews] and TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@upioddnews].

Half-red, half-yellow apple; Serval under the porch

An extremely rare chimera apple -- half red and half yellow -- draws visitors to a New Zealand store and a Vancouver family finds an African serval cat hiding under their porch on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. [https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/] Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@UPIOddNews] and TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@upioddnews].

Fireworks truck catches fire on highway, baby birds hatch on police motorcycle

A truck fire on a Tennessee highway causes fireworks to ignite on the roadway and a mother bird hatches eggs in a nest she built in a Washington police motorcycle's storage compartment on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. [https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/] Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@UPIOddNews] and TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@upioddnews].

Odds and Ends: Human foosball, parakeet vandal

The UPI Odd News Minute presents weekend odds and ends, our weekely roundup of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make this week's podcasts. Today's stories include a human-sized game of foosball in Canada, a parakeet damaging cars in Scotland, a Kentucky chicken chase and the latest installment of The Afternoon Rush. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. [https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/] Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@UPIOddNews] and TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@upioddnews].

Bear falls from tree, Mr. Potato Head speed record

Arizona police use a tarp to catch a bear falling out of a tree and a Singapore teenager breaks the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to assemble Mr. Potato Head on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. [https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/] Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@UPIOddNews] and TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@upioddnews].