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Odd news
Woman eats 181 chicken wings in 12 minutes The Black Widow of eating contests gobbled up nearly 181 chicken wings in 12 minutes, devouring the national championship record in Buffalo on Sunday. "I'm so happy!" said Sonya Thomas, who ate 4.86 pounds of chicken wings to win the contest, besting world eating marvel Joey Chestnut at th... - Posted on September 7, 2010
Taiwanese town goes cat crazy Cats are giving a second life to a decayed Taiwanese coal-mining town that last prospered in the 1970s. This tiny community of 200 people and 100 cats is fast reinventing itself as a cat lover's paradise. Visitors' raves on local blogs have helped draw dozens of cat lovers to fondle, froli... - Posted on August 31, 2010
Real-life Spiderman climbs Australian skyscraper A French skyscraper climber nicknamed "Spiderman" was arrested Monday after scaling a 57-story building in Sydney with his bare hands. Alain Robert, known for climbing some of the world's tallest and best-known buildings without ropes or other equipment, was arrested at the top of the Lumi... - Posted on August 30, 2010
The prettiest bug in town: A pink katydid It's bubblegum pink, vanishingly rare and was likely headed for an early demise in a bird's beak. That is until Kay Hrycko stumbled upon the shockingly pink katydid in the yard of her Springfield Township, Pennsylvania, home on Tuesday. "We were walking around looking at the logs an... - Posted on August 27, 2010
Teens take flying leap to deliver mail he main worry for some young mail carriers in southern Wisconsin is neither dogs nor extreme weather. It's plunging into a lake. A never-stopping boat delivers mail to dozens of mansions on Lake Geneva during the summer. Teenage carriers are hired to jump off the boat, put the mail in mail... - Posted on July 28, 2010
Bear honks horn, takes car on joy ride A bear got into an empty car, honked the horn and then sent it rolling 125 feet into a thicket, with the bear still inside, a Colorado family said. Seventeen-year-old Ben Story said he and his family were asleep in their Larkspur home, 30 miles south of Denver, when the bear managed to ope... - Posted on July 26, 2010
Dog trapped in car honks horn to alert owner A veterinarian said a dog trapped in a car on a 90-degree day in eastern Pennsylvania honked the horn until he was rescued. Nancy Soares said the dog was brought to her Macungie Animal Hospital last month after he had been in the car for about an hour. She said Max's owner had gone shoppin... - Posted on July 14, 2010
Snakes in a locker! A custodian cleaning out lockers at a Massachusetts high school was so shocked when a 3-foot-long snake fell at his feet that he didn't even think it was real. Ed Reardon tells The Daily News Tribune that at first he thought it was a change purse. Then he thought it was a rubber snake.... - Posted on July 8, 2010
Doggie down! Dachshund dives deep Any dachshund owner knows the feisty breed rarely backs off from a challenge, but one in Russia is taking that reputation to new heights — or depths. The dog named Boniface is learning how to scuba dive. Owner Sergei Gorbunov, a professional diver in the Pacific Coast city of Vlad... - Posted on July 6, 2010
Bionic cat gets artificial paws Oscar the cat may have lost one of his nine lives, but his new prosthetic paws make him one of the world's few bionic cats. After losing his two rear paws in a nasty encounter with a combine harvester last October, the black cat with green eyes was outfitted with metallic pegs that link th... - Posted on July 1, 2010