Today's Top Odd News Story
Cowabunga! New England town celebrates being the birthplace of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The city where the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were conceived has largely been overlooked during the crime-fighting quartet's meteoric rise More »
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Just how rare is a rare-colored lobster? Scientists say answer could be under the shell
A wave of odd-colored lobsters has showed up in fishers' traps, supermarket seafood tanks and scientists’ laboratories over the last year More »
Bull that escaped from Illinois farm lassoed after hours on the run
A bull that escaped from an Illinois farm spent hours on the run before men on horseback finally lassoed the beast in a scene straight out of the Old West More »
Half a house for half a million dollars: Home crushed by tree hits market near Los Angeles
Newly listed for sale in Southern California’s notoriously pricey realty market: half a house for half a million dollars More »
From attic to auction: A Rembrandt painting sells for $1.4M in Maine
A Rembrandt discovered in a Maine attic has sold for $1.4 million More »
Ultra swimmer abandons attempt to cross Lake Michigan again
An ultra swimmer's attempt to cross Lake Michigan is over after 40 hours More »
She made ‘very demure’ go viral. Now she wants to trademark its use
“Very demure, very mindful” has become the latest vocabulary defining the internet’s summer More »
A 13-foot (and growing) python was seized from a New York home and sent to a zoo
A 13-foot (4-meter) Burmese python was confiscated from an upstate New York man who was keeping the still-growing snake in a small tank More »
Christmas in Venezuela kicks off in October, President Maduro has declared
The world’s attention on Venezuela has focused lately on the fallout from a highly contested presidential election that both the ruling party and its opponents claim to have won, the persecution of critics and the arrest warrant issued this week against the former opposition presidential candidate More »
An Israeli boy who broke an ancient jar learns how the museum is piecing it back together
A 4-year-old boy whose curiosity led to the destruction of a 3,500-year-old jar has returned to the museum in northern Israel where it happened, welcomed by forgiving curators who are using the accident as an educational opportunity More »
