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A kitten has a new home with an Oregon sheriff’s deputy after hitching a 15-mile ride in the wheel well of a Search and Rescue team vehicle. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said a truck used by its Search and Rescue team was flagged to be inspected for a rodent infestation after it caught the […]

A New Hampshire man captured video of a bear climbing into a parked car through a damaged window and stealing a bag of chips. Geoffrey Starr shared video showing the mother bear climbing into the vehicle in Bartlett and remaining inside for a time before emerging with a bag of chips. Starr said the car’s window had […]

Furniture company Ikea gathered 2,052 employees at its first store in Sweden to hold the world’s largest pajama party. The chain broke the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people wearing two-piece pajamas at a single venue at the store in Almhult. Company officials said the record attempt was part of Ikea’s initiative to create […]

A curious 4-year-old boy accidentally smashed a 3,500-year-old jar while his family was touring a museum in Israel. The boy, who was not identified, was near the entrance of the Hecht Museum in Haifa Friday when the family came across a crockery that dates back to the Bronze Age, roughly from 2200 and 1500 BC. The boy’s […]

A North Carolina man found his car trouble to be unexpectedly lucky when a trip to the repair shop earned him a $379,747 lottery jackpot. Matthews resident Andrzej Kielbon told North Carolina Education Lottery officials he had an appointment to have his car serviced at the dealership, but ended up with some spare time in the morning. “I […]

The world’s oldest living man is celebrating his 112th birthday Monday at the care home where he lives in England. John Alfred Tinniswood was born Aug. 26, 1912, just over four months after the sinking of the Titanic and six months after Arizona became a U.S. state. Tinniswood was dubbed the world’s oldest living man […]

A card-stacking expert broke a Guinness World Record by creating a 54-level house of cards in just 8 hours. Bryan Berg, a trained architect who started breaking card stacking records in 1992, needed a ladder to complete his card tower, which he topped with his Honor Magic V3 phone for good measure. Guinness World Records […]

A Massachusetts sanctuary said an escaped goat is safely back at the facility after two days on the loose. The Sowa Goat Sanctuary in Harvard, which had offered a $5,000 reward for the safe return of missing goat Caleb, said the animal was found about .4 miles from the sanctuary. The sanctuary said on social media that a man […]

A North Carolina man said he will use his $439,527 lottery prize to pay off the house he bought just one day before the drawing. Benny Murphy told North Carolina Education Lottery officials he bought his new Mebane house just one day before last Thursday’s Cash 5 drawing. I closed on a house on Wednesday,” Murphy said. “They […]

A California 19-year-old may have broken a Guinness World Record by “bike surfing” for a distance of more than 656 feet. Santa Cruz resident Brock Johnson, a member of the Santa Cruz Maniacs bike crew, said he decided to pursue the record for the longest distance traveled while bike surfing after learning it stood at […]