Stuck on the stairs, 21 valedictorians

Tasmanian devil escape, blanket fort world record

A Tasmanian devil escapes from an Australian wildlife park and a Nevada county breaks the Guinness World Record for the largest blanket fort 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].

Uber Lost & Found Index 2026

Ride-sharing service Uber released its 10th annual Lost & Found Index, an accounting of the most common -- and most unusual -- items left behind by passengers 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].

Classic car parade, stuck pig

A Route 66 parade in Tulsa breaks a Guinness World Record with 3,596 classic cars, a pig named Edgar gets his tusk caught in a fence and a Georgia woman amasses the world's largest collection of Wonder Woman memorabila 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: Anteater zoo-break, dancing crabs

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 an anteater's escape from a Taiwan zoo, dancing crabs at a Japanese beach, the world's largest golf ball pyramid and a death-defying stunt by David "Record Breaker" 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].

Monkeys on the loose in Florida and Germany

A Florida woman spots a rhesus macaque monkey in her backyard and six monkeys of the same species escape from a rescue facility in Germany 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].