Author: Angie Sharma

A group of 30 current and former workers at a Kentucky middle school scored a $1 million Powerball prize with numbers they have been playing for years — and hid the winning ticket in a math textbook. The group of current and former employees from Rector A. Jones Middle School in Florence have been playing the lottery […]

A wallet lost for 40 years was returned to an Ontario family after being found in an air duct at a storage facility. Andrew Medley of Detroit said he was working on a storage unit at Eaton Centre in Toronto when he found a wallet in an air duct. “I took the wallet out and […]

A group of four budding engineers at a Hong Kong school broke a Guinness World Record when they constructed the world’s smallest humanoid robot. Aaron Ho Yat Fung, Isaac Zachary To, Justin Wang Tou Duong and Ngo Hei Leung, members of the robotics team at the Diocesan Boys’ School, built a robot measuring 5.55 inches […]

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 followers on the website, and […]

The oldest living person in the United States is due to be celebrated by a parade marking her 116th birthday in California. Edith “Edie” Recagno Keenan Ceccarelli, who celebrates her 116th birthday on Monday, will be celebrated Sunday by a drive-by parade at Holy Spirit Residential Care Home in Willits. Ceccarelli, born in 1908, is the oldest […]

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’s […]

Police in Britain stopped a runner they spotted with a refrigerator strapped to his back, but they discovered he wasn’t fleeing from a crime — he was training for a marathon. Daniel Fairbrother said he was practicing running with a fridge strapped to his back in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, when he was stopped by officers. They […]

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, […]

An Iowa man visited state lottery headquarters to collect a $100,000 prize for the second time in under a year. The Iowa Lottery said Alvin “Al” Van Zee won the $100,000 from a $10 Bonus Multiplier scratch-off ticket he bought from the Git N Go store on Oskaloosa Street in Pella. Van Zee previously visited Iowa Lottery headquarters on […]

A Czech Republic man who earned a Guinness World Record for the largest collection of Lego sets turned his love into a museum with four locations. Miloš Křeček, who received his first Lego set as a Christmas present when he was 5 years old, was verified by Guinness World Records as owning 6,005 different Lego sets. Křeček […]