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Toucan behind the dishwasher, long-lost time capsule

UPI Odd News Minute

Release Date: 09/02/2025

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The UPI Odd News Minute presents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly round-up of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make it into this week's podcasts. This week's stories include a sailboat that washed up on a South Carolina beach, a juvenile great horned owl rescued from a soccer net, the Guinness World Record for the farthest cornhole shot using a slingshot and the birth of a pygmy hippo calf at the John Ball Zoo in Michigan. For these stories and more, Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on and .

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A trapped toucan is rescued from behind his owner's dishwasher in Virginia and a New York high school finally finds a long-lost time capsule that had been meant to be opened in 2017 on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on and .

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A postcard arrives at an Ottawa, Ill., post office 72 years after being mailed from New York and a Washington state lifeguard captures a massive alligator snapping turtle found lurking underneath a dock on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on and .

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Peanut, a turtle with a unique peanut-shaped shell, turns 41 in Missouri and a squirrel that interrupted a New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox game gets its own Topps baseball card on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on and .

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A trapped toucan is rescued from behind his owner's dishwasher in Virginia and a New York high school finally finds a long-lost time capsule that had been meant to be opened in 2017 on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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