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WATCH: Beard and Mustache Championships claims three facial hair chain world records
(UPI) Attendees at the National Beard and Mustache Championships in Florida broke three Guinness World Records for the longest chains of beards, mustaches and partial beards.
The annual event, which is held in a different location each year by Beard Team USA, saw participants take on the three record titles on the Main Street Pier in this year'...Read more
WATCH: Bear caught on camera trying to break into parked police car
(UPI) The Florida Highway Patrol posted security camera footage showing a hungry bear attempting to break into a parked patrol car.
The FHP's Troop F, based in the southwest part of the state, posted a video to Instagram showing the furry suspect who is "wanted" for attempted burglary of [an] FHP state trooper car.
The footage shows the...Read more
WATCH: Project to save Florida's 'Beer Can Island' offers partial ownership for $1,000
(UPI) A small Florida key known as "Beer Can Island" due to the results of parties thrown in the sand is for sale -- and one prospective buyer is looking for partners to go in at $1,000 apiece.
The 9-acre island, also known as Pine Key, is located near MacDill Air Force Base and Apollo Beach and was created in the 1940s as a result of dredging ...Read more
WATCH:Two-story house floats through San Francisco Bay
(UPI) The mystery of a 2-story home seen floating in the San Francisco Bay for several days has been solved.
The wood-shingled home was first spotted in the water on Sunday and was seen in various locations around the bay in the ensuing days.
The U.S. Coast Guard said it is monitoring the private transfer of the house, which was built atop a ...Read more
WATCH: Bakery asks customers to check cookies for lost diamond
(UPI) The owner of a Kansas bakery is asking customers to eat their cookies carefully after she lost the $4,000 diamond from her ring in the dough.
Dawn "Sis" Monroe, owner of Sis Sweets Cookies & Café in Leavenworth, said the diamond fell off the ring that has been on her finger for 36 years at some point while she was at the shop.
"We ...Read more
WATCH: Overdue book returned to Colorado library after 105 years
(UPI) A Colorado library said a book was recently returned to the facility after being due back 105 years earlier.
Poudre Libraries announced on its website that the copy of Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott, had been due back at the Fort Collins Public Library and Free Reading Room on Feb. 13, 1919.
The book was returned to the library system by a...Read more
S.C. woman's string of good luck culminates in $300,000 lottery prize
(UPI) A South Carolina woman's cascade of scratch-off lottery wins culminated in a $300,000 prize.
The Midlands woman told South Carolina Education Lottery officials she won $100 from a scratch-off ticket and used $20 of her winnings to buy two more scratch-offs from the Pantry store on E. Columbia Avenue in Batesburg.
The woman said she ended...Read more
Landscapers unearth suspected Civil War cannonball in Virginia yard
(UPI) Landscapers working in the back yard of a Virginia home made a surprising discovery: a suspected cannonball dating from the Civil War.
Jasin Singh, a real estate agent with Innovation Properties, said landscapers were working in the yard of a home on Frederick Street in Staunton when they uncovered what they initially thought to be a ...Read more
WATCH: 59-year-old woman breaks world record for planking
(UPI) A 59-year-old Alberta woman broke a Guinness World Record by holding a plank position for 4 hours, 30 minutes and 11 seconds.
DonnaJean Wilde held the position for about 10 minutes longer than previous record-holder, Montreal resident Dana Glowacka, Guinness World Records said.
"It feels like a dream," Wilde told the record-keeping ...Read more
WATCH: Fare-dodging horse waits on the platform at train station
(UPI) An escaped racehorse made its way to a train station in Sydney, Australia, and trotted up and down the platform before attempting to board a train and chasing a passenger.
Transport for New South Wales posted a series of security camera photos to Facebook, and footage to Instagram, showing the horse, clad in a beige raincoat, wandering ...Read more
Animal rescuers save two deer with antlers caught in a rope
(UPI) Animal rescuers in England rescued two deer that ended up with their antlers entangled in a rope attached to a tree.
Lindsay Newell, of the Linjoy Wildlife Sanctuary and Rescue, said on the team's Facebook page that she and a colleague named Mark responded when the two fallow bucks were found entangled in the woods near the village of ...Read more
Chicken dons tiny glasses to watch solar eclipse, lays an egg
(UPI) One unusual solar eclipse spectator who watched the sun disappear in Arkansas is going viral for her particularly tiny pair of protective glasses -- and her feathered form.
Tad Fendley, of Amity, watched the eclipse Monday with his pet chicken, Gertrude, in his arms and wearing her own pair of eclipse protection glasses.
Fendley's sister...Read more
Salad stop earns Nebraska man a $1 million lottery prize
(UPI) A Nebraska man said a quick stop for a salad led to his winning a $1 million Mega Millions prize.
Brant Edgington of Fremont told Nebraska Lottery officials he stopped at the Baker's store on North Bell Street in Fremont to buy a pre-made salad for the next day's lunch.
Edgington said he decided to buy a Mega Millions ticket at the store...Read more
Stranded bull hoisted out of muddy river in England
(UPI) Firefighters in Britain came to the rescue of a bull that wandered into a river and became stuck in the water.
County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service said crews responded alongside North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service's Richmond Fire Appliance & Water Rescue Unit to help a farmer rescue his bull from the River Tees,...Read more
Reported armed man at Scottish train station was 'Star Wars' Stormtrooper
(UPI) Police in Scotland said a reported armed man who led to a train returning to a station turned out to be a Star Wars cosplayer on his way to a comic book convention.
The man, known as the Grampian Stormtrooper on social media, was dressed in his Imperial Stormtrooper costume "with a Scottish twist" -- a kilt -- when he boarded a ScotRail ...Read more
WATCH: 309 people shine in sun costumes at Niagara Falls on eclipse day
(UPI) The City of Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada, celebrated the solar eclipse by gathering 309 people to wear sun costumes and break a Guinness World Record.
The city said on social media that 309 people in sun costumes came together on a Niagara City Cruise boat hours before Monday's eclipse and they were officially counted by a Guinness ...Read more
WATCH: Escaped mountain goat rescued from Missouri bridge
(UPI) Firefighters and animal rescuers teamed up in Missouri to rescue an escaped mountain goat seen climbing the support pillars under a highway overpass bridge.
The Kansas City Fire Department was summoned to the bridge at East 63rd Street and Lewis Road, near Swope Park, when the goat was spotted on a ledge near the top of the bridge Monday ...Read more
WATCH: Florida woman finds nearly 8-foot alligator inside her home
(UPI) A Florida woman had to call 911 to get help ejecting an unwanted house guest: a nearly 8-foot-long alligator.
Mary Hollenback said she was at her home in Venice's Grand Palm Community when she heard banging at her front screen door.
"I thought it was somebody else who didn't live here trying to get into the wrong house," Hollenback told ...Read more
Man accidentally buys two identical Powerball tickets, wins $2 million
(UPI) A Maryland man who mistakenly bought two identical tickets for the same Powerball drawing ended up winning a pair of $1 million prizes.
The Annapolis man told Maryland Lottery officials he visited the 7-Eleven store on Bestgate Road in Annapolis and used the lottery terminal's replay feature, which scans old tickets for winners and prints...Read more
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