(UPI) A grocery store in Texas broke a Guinness World Record by gathering more than 311,000 avocados into a single display.

The El Rio Grande Latin Market in Dallas celebrated the Cinco de Mayo by amassing 86,764 pounds of avocados into the world's largest fruit display.

The display was examined by a Guinness World Records adjudicator and ...Read more

(UPI) Dozens of live chickens escaped onto the streets of Brooklyn on Monday when the doors of a cargo truck came open during transit.

The New York Police Department said the rear doors of the truck came open and started spilling caged chickens into the roadway on Old Fulton Street, near Front Street, and chickens continued to fall from the ...Read more

(UPI) The North Carolina Education Lottery said there were 5,662 top prize winning tickets Monday when a Pick 3 drawing resulted in the winning numbers 6-6-6.

The three-digit combination was drawn in the Monday afternoon Pick 3 drawing, leading to $2.1 million in prizes being owed.

A 50-cent Pick 3 ticket carries a top prize of $250, while a $...Read more

(UPI) Residents on the Texas coast are being asked to keep a lookout for mysterious orange-painted blocks after wildlife researchers revealed their purpose -- researching turtles.

Beach-goers in Galveston and Freeport recently reported coming across the unusual objects -- small rectangular blocks attached to larger rectangular blocks -- in the ...Read more

(UPI) A rad badger paid a visit to a skate park in Cornwall, England, but ended up needing some help escaping from a steep-edged bowl.

The Cornwall Badger Group said volunteer Dave Hudson was summoned to the Newquay Skate Park on Sunday when a curious badger wandered into the facility and became trapped in a bowl -- a skating surface akin to an...Read more

(UPI) A team of 18 bakers came together in France to cook a baguette measuring a record-breaking 461 feet long.

The bakers, members of the French Confederation of Bakers and Pastry Chefs, gathered at the Suresnes Baguette Show in Suresnes, west of Paris, to bake the bread loaf, which measured about 235 times longer than the average French ...Read more

(UPI) The zebra who spent several days on the loose in western Washington was successfully recaptured and returned to her owner.

The zebra, named Shug, was one of four to escape a trailer on Interstate 90 on April 28, and was the only one to remain on the loose after a few hours of rescue efforts.

North Bend Mayor Mary Miller said Shug was ...Read more

(UPI) A Virginia woman bought a lottery ticket for the first time in her life and ended up winning a $50,000 prize.

Katelynne Berland of Yorktown told Virginia Lottery officials her mother asked her to pick up some lottery tickets from the 7-Eleven on Ottis Street in Yorktown.

She said the errand inspired her to buy her own first-ever lottery ...Read more

(UPI) Officials warned of traffic delays on a Wisconsin highway when an overturned truck spilled beer into the roadway.

Menomonee Falls police shared photos on social media showing the semi truck on its side in the northbound lanes of Interstate 41 on Thursday with cases of Miller High Life beer spilling out from its rear.

Two lanes of traffic...Read more

(UPI) Residents of an Iowa town were treated to an unusual and whimsical sight when a dog and a deer went for a walk around town together.

The Tipton Police Department posted photos to Facebook showing the dog and deer strolling together in locations including a block of businesses and the city courthouse.

"Sometimes a dog just wants to take ...Read more

(UPI) Officials in a Washington county are asking members of the public to steer clear of the area where a zebra remains on the loose.

The zebra was one of four to escape from a trailer Sunday on Interstate 90, near North Bend in King County.

Three of the African equines were corralled and returned to their owner, but one remains on the loose....Read more

(UPI) A 9-foot alligator wandered up to a Florida elementary school and managed to buck a trapper off its back before being safely corralled.

Witnesses Carolynn Jones and Mark Detrio captured video when the gator wandered onto the grounds of an elementary school in Wesley Chapel, prompting a response from a trapper contracted by the Florida ...Read more

(UPI) One of Britain's largest water companies said the most unusual items found in its sewers include a Dora the Explorer action figure and a Ken doll.

Severn Trent, which provides water services to regions including the Midlands, Bristol, the outskirts of Sheffield and north and mid-Wales, released a list of the "strangest and funny things ...Read more

(UPI) Workers at a New Zealand sawmill received an early morning shock when a particularly large kiwi bird decided to run through the shop.

Lucas James, who works at Rosvall Sawmill in Whareora, said he and his coworkers were perplexed when the bird showed up in the early morning.

"I was still bleary-eyed, early in the morning, and was using ...Read more

(UPI) The California Highway Patrol shared a photo of a dummy passenger that earned several citations for a carpool lane driver.

The CHP Santa Fe Springs station said on Instagram that an officer pulled a vehicle over for crossing solid double lines in the high-occupancy vehicle lanes, and soon discovered something unusual about the sole ...Read more

(UPI) A Massachusetts woman won $1 million from a scratch-off lottery ticket just 10 weeks after winning the same amount from another game.

Christine Wilson, of Attleborough, previously won a $1 million top prize from the Massachusetts State Lottery's $50 Lifetime Millions scratch-off ticket in February.

Wilson told lottery officials she ...Read more

(UPI) Arizona wildlife rescuers are urging the public not to capture newborn kittens -- especially when they turn out to not be kittens at all.

The Arizona Humane Society said a resident recently came to the Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center in Scottsdale with a pair of purported kittens they found unattended behind their shed.

Wildlife ...Read more

(UPI) An Idaho man on a quest to become the top Guinness World Record-breaker in the world added a 166th concurrent title to his name by throwing and catching a fire sword 73 times in 30 seconds.

David Rush, who has broken more than 250 Guinness World Records and currently holds 166 titles, previously set the 1-minute version of the record for ...Read more

(UPI) A North Carolina woman said her 3-year-old daughter's insistence that there was a "monster" lurking behind her bedroom wall led to the discovery of more than 50,000 bees.

Ashley Class said she and her husband initially thought their daughter was merely imagining the presence of a monster in the closet of her farmhouse bedroom.

"She was ...Read more

(UPI) A missing cat was reunited with her owner in Utah after taking a 500-mile journey to California in an Amazon return box.

Carrie Clark of Lehi said her 6-year-old cat, Galena, went missing from their Lehi home April 10, and she failed to turn up in the ensuing week, despite friends and neighbors joining in on the search.

Clark said she ...Read more