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According to UPI Odd News: A team of researchers in Switzerland released details of a perfect spooky season project: a disembodied robot hand that uses its fingers to walk.
According to UPI Odd News: A Michigan man said he was carrying a Powerball ticket around in his wallet for nearly two months before he discovered it was a $1 million winner.
According to UPI Odd News: A British collector broke an unusual record by opening seven packs of trading cards in one minute while strapped to the wing of a plane in mid-flight.
According to UPI Odd News: A Canada goose spotted walking through a Pennsylvania city with a rusty metal ring lodged around its bill has been returned to the wild.
According to UPI Odd News: Firefighters in California are warning about the dangers of lithium ion batteries after a portable phone charger's explosion was caught on camera.
According to UPI Odd News: A North Carolina woman won a $1,939,727 jackpot from the very first online lottery game she ever tried to play, officials said.
According to UPI Odd News: The Idaho man with the most concurrent Guinness World Records titles used his mouth to move more than 2 pounds of ice cubes between two trays.
According to UPI Odd News: A group of Guatemalan chefs teamed up in the country's capital to prepare a massive fiambre salad that weighed in at a record-breaking 4,325.9 pounds.
According to UPI Odd News: Security cameras were rolling at a North Carolina laundromat when a deer crashed into a customer, broke through a window and ran through the business.
According to UPI Odd News: A San Francisco tech startup posted a job listing offering $20 to dog walkers willing to spend four to six hours walking robot dogs.
According to UPI Odd News: Dozens of demonstrators held a protest in front of Liberty Mutual's Boston headquarters to demand an end to the company's "Liberty Biberty" mascot.
According to UPI Odd News: A certified spreadsheet fanatic with the world record for the largest collection of spreadsheet software said he now has more than 1,000 items.
According to UPI Odd News: A British zoo said a capybara on the loose since March has been photographed by wildlife cameras set up by the search team.
According to UPI Odd News: Prepare for Halloween with spooky Odd News mysteries, including unidentified objects, fake cats, a vanishing island, space balls and mystery poops.
According to UPI Odd News: A Tennessee gymnast said it took him over four months of training before he could hold a knuckle handstand for a record-breaking 1 minute, 23 seconds.
According to UPI Odd News: A black bear got inside an Alaska family's unlocked car and completely destroyed the interior before being freed by local police.
According to UPI Odd News: A hazardous materials team was summoned to a beach in Florida's Flagler County to remove a mysterious cylinder that washed ashore during storms.
According to UPI Odd News: The Los Angeles Public Library is celebrating its centennial anniversary by playing host to an unusual tome: the world's largest pop-up book.
According to UPI Odd News: The South Carolina Education Lottery said its Palmetto Cash 5 jackpot has rolled over 47 times to reach a record amount of $1.246 million.
According to UPI Odd News: Space experts said a suspected "space object" found in a rural Minnesota cornfield earlier this month might be a piece of a Chinese rocket launched in September.
According to UPI Odd News: Police in Wisconsin shared footage of the moment a deer that broke into an apartment through a window crashed back out through another window.
According to UPI Odd News: A Chinese entrepreneur earned a Guinness World Record for taking his modified motorcycle for a journey of more than 25 miles -- atop the water.
According to UPI Odd News: A tiger cub that escaped from a Ukrainian zoo during the weekend was safely recaptured without any injuries to the public, the zoo's director said.
According to UPI Odd News: An escaped cow led police on a chase through a Maryland neighborhood before fleeing into the woods and making its way onto a busy highway.
According to UPI Odd News: A Michigan woman used money she received for her birthday to play an online lottery game and wound up winning a $150,000 prize.
According to UPI Odd News: A public works employee in an Ohio city is being praised for an unusual rescue involving a stuffed toy that fell into a storm drain.
According to UPI Odd News: A Florida fitness coach earned a Guinness World Record by lifting a weight of 639 pounds using only her hips.
According to UPI Odd News: Firefighters in Georgia were called out to a tree for an unusual rescue involving a chameleon who had climbed up to a high branch.
According to UPI Odd News: A Mega Millions ticket that spent weeks tucked into the sun visor in a Maryland man's car turned out to be a $30,000 winner when he rediscovered it.
According to UPI Odd News: Authorities in Santa Cruz, Calif., rounded up an escaped emu wandering the city's streets just days after a separate incident involving another emu.
According to UPI Odd News: An Oklahoma sheriff's office shared body camera footage from the capture of a caiman after months on the loose.
According to UPI Odd News: The Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium revealed two pelicans escaped from the facility and spent a day on the loose before being safely recaptured.
According to UPI Odd News: Neighbors in a Tennessee town are asking locals to keep an eye out for a pet kangaroo that escaped from a property.
Federal agencies are investigating whether a piece of metal debris found in a Minnesota cornfield fell to Earth from space.
E-bike rental company Lime responded to a viral video filmed in a London park by specifying that the company's electric bikes are "not for jousting."
A freight train in South Africa may have broken a world record by hauling 696 cars -- making the train 4.7 miles long.
A 7-week-old kitten was given the name Freeway after being rescued from a busy interstate in Massachusetts.
The San Diego Zoo celebrated International Sloth Day with an appropriately-timed announcement: the birth of a baby Linnaeus's two-toed sloth.
An Idaho sheriff's deputy came to the rescue of a moose found in Latah County with its head and body entangled in a roll of wire fencing.
A Texas woman visiting Maryland was convinced by a stranger to play the lottery's Racetrax game for the first time -- and won $37,951.