Oddities

In this image provided by Carolyn Kiefer her mother, Katherine Kiefer, 82, is reunited with her cat Aggie at VCA Chatoak Animal Hospital after the Palisades Fire destroyed her home and the cat was missing, Saturday, March 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Carolyn Kiefer via AP)

One cat’s incredible reunion with its owner after the LA wildfires

A house cat named Aggie has found her way back to her owner two months after the LA wildfires. Katherine Kiefer had feared the worst for her beloved pet after the Palisades blaze left her home in ashes.
 
This photo provided by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) shows a turtle in a box after a Pennsylvania man was caught with the turtle concealed in his pants when the TSA body scanner triggered an alarm in the area of the man’s groin on Friday, March 7, 2025, at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J. (TSA via AP)

Man found with a live turtle concealed in his pants by TSA at a New Jersey airport

 
A large balloon used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection for surveillance along the Texas border that broke free on Monday, and traveled about 600 miles (966 kilometers) miles to the north as high winds swept through the state that crashed is shown on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 in Quinlan, Texas. (KDFW via AP)

US surveillance balloon breaks free near Texas border and travels to Dallas area before crashing

 
A man runs with the ball in the Henmore Brook during the annual Shrovetide medieval soccer match played in Ashbourne, England, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Darren Staples)

This wild ancient version of soccer has rules like ‘no murder’ and is still being played today

 
This undated photo provided by Goldin Auctions shows a Cheeto shaped like the Pokémon Charizard that has sold at auction for $87,840. (Goldin Auctionsvia AP)

A Cheeto shaped like the beloved Pokémon Charizard is auctioned for $87,840

 

A Swiss politician was fined for buying pink water pistols online

 
Artist Marco Evaristti is photographed with his exhibition "And now you care", before the opening in Den Graa Koedby in Copenhagen, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (Emil Nicolai Helms/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Piglets left to starve as part of a controversial art exhibition in Denmark have been stolen

 
This photo provided by Victory Junction shows kids posing for a photo with llama Whitetop at Victory Junction, a camp for chronically ill children, in Randleman, N.C., in 2023. (Victory Junction via AP)

World’s oldest llama enjoys comforting chronically ill children in North Carolina

 
In this photo provided by the New Zealand Department of Conservation a dolphin is tended to at Waitangi, New Zealand, after it was removed from a fishing boat that the dolphin had jumped into on Feb. 28, 2025. (Department of Conservation via AP)

One moment, calm waters. The next, a 900-pound dolphin landed on their boat

 
Runners compete during a traditional pancake race by livery companies at the Guildhall in London, Tuesday, March 4, 2025.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Crowds cheer as runners with frying pans race to mark annual Pancake Day

 
A passer by climbs up a ladder of the Bridegroom's Oak which has a famous knothole that has been used as a mailbox since 1892, in Dodau forest, near Eutin, northern Germany, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Timber over Tinder: Bridegroom’s Oak in a German forest has connected lovers for over a century

 
Some of 2461 polar swimmers get out of the water after breaking a world record for the largest polar bear dip at a lake in Most, Czech Republic, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Cold-water swimmers in the Czech Republic set a new world record for the largest polar bear dip

 
April Cullinan, left, of Gainesville, Fla., and Zach Reynolds, of Tampa, Fla., compete in the Florida Sumo Cage Match and Beer Chug event during the Florida Man Games, Saturday, March 1, 2025, in Elkton, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

Florida Man Games return for Round 2 as teams vie to be the world’s worst superhero

 
This image released by SRH shows a scene from the film "Hundreds of Beavers." (SRH via AP)

Best mullet? Best use of Taylor Swift? AP hands out its own movie awards ahead of the Oscars

 
Billy Horschel hits his tee shot on the second hole of the South Course at Torrey Pines during the first round of the Genesis Invitational golf tournament Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

A Florida Gator took on a Florida gator. Billy Horschel prevailed in the matchup at PGA National

 
This image from body cam video, provided by Saratoga Springs Police, shows the rescue of Sly, a 1,300-pound horse that fell through ice of a pond in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Saratoga Springs Police via AP)

Dramatic rescue saves horse from icy pond in New York

 
Nova, left, an endangered Southern White Rhinoceros born in January 2025, stands next to her mother Elie at Paira Daiza Zoo in Brugelette, Belgium, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Marius Burgelman)

Baby white rhino Nova makes her public debut at Belgium’s Pairi Daiza zoo

 
In this photo released by the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, a Perfect Pets worker holds one of two bulldog puppies stolen from the store, after the dogs were returned by a person who bought the dogs from a street vendor, in Centennial, Colorado, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office via AP)

Thieves nab pricey bulldogs from a Colorado pet store after faking a seizure, sheriff says

 
In this screenshot taken from a video provided by the Colombian National Police, Colombian police catch a man smuggling packets of cocaine under his toupee at the airport in Cartagena, Colombia, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Via Colombian National Police)

Colombian police catch a man smuggling packets of cocaine under toupee

 
The remains of a home sit atop of a sandy bluff overlooking a beach in Wellfleet, Mass., Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Andre Muggiati)

Luxury home at risk of tumbling into Cape Cod Bay over removal dispute is demolished

 
This image provided by Amanda Hergenreder shows a dog she named Biggby walking in Millington, Mich., Dec. 18, 2024. (Amanda Hergenreder via AP)

Michigan veterinarian faces theft charge after refusing to return homeless man’s dog

 
In this photo taken Jan 20, 2025 and released by Guo Qingshan, a view of the "puppy mountain" which went viral over the internet in China seen in Yichang, a city in central China's Hubei Province. (Guo Qingshan via AP)

‘Puppy Mountain’ photo draws onlookers to a Chinese riverside

 
Former NBA reporter and current St. Bonaventure men's basketball general manager Adrian Wojnarowski, center left, watches as Southern California guard JuJu Watkins walks past during the second half of an NCAA women's basketball game, Nov. 12, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun, File)

Wojnarowski auctions iPhones used for ‘Woj bombs’ to raise NIL money at St. Bonaventure

 
This screenshot made from a video shows the 18-karat toilet, titled "America," by Maurizio Cattelan in the restroom of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Sept. 16, 2016. (AP Photo, File)

Prosecutor says golden toilet was stolen from English palace in ‘audacious raid’

 
Lottery tickets are on display in a tobacco shop, in Paris, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

Thieves used a stolen card to buy a $523,000 lottery ticket. The victim wants to share the winnings

 
This photo provided by Greenville County Detention Center in South Carolina shows Zachary Hughes. (Greenville County Detention Center via AP)

A South Carolina man is sentenced to life after confession on stand also led to his friend’s arrest

 
This combo of file photos shows Oakland Athletics player Reggie Jackson, left, in 1973, and as New York Yankees player on Oct. 10, 1978. (AP Photo/File)

A look at some Yankees players who trimmed their hair to comport with the team’s facial hair policy

 

Michigan court uproots part of verdict in favor of gardener whose organic lawn was killed

 
New York Yankees pitcher Gerrit Cole takes part in pickoff drills during a spring training baseball workout Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

New York Yankees drop ban on beards, 49 years after it was imposed by owner George Steinbrenner

 
Diners enjoy a wild game dinner that included boar, bobcat and coyote in Pine Grove, Pa.,, on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Scolforo)

Crow is not the only thing they eat at a wild game dinner in rural Pennsylvania

 
This photo provided by Caitlin Mandracchi shows a Scottish Highland bull on the loose in New Milford, Conn., on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (Caitlin Mandracchia via AP)

Scottish Highland bull on the loose in Connecticut’s rural hill country

 
FILE -A Birkenstock sandal is pictured in Birkenstock store in Frankfurt, Germany, Oct. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Can sandals be art? Birkenstock says yes, but a German court says no

 
The SS United States is towed down the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey, from Philadelphia, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Historic ocean liner departs Philadelphia on voyage to become the world’s largest artificial reef

 
A man stands in front of gravestones at the Waldfriedhof cemetery in Munich, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006. (AP Photo/Christof Stache, File)

QR-code stickers mysteriously appear on 1,000 Munich graves. Police are now investigating

 
This photo provided by the Great Plains Zoo in February 2025 shows taxidermy animals from the Brockhouse Collection at the Delbridge Museum of Natural History in Sioux Falls, S.D. (Great Plains Zoo via AP)

Tigers, zebras and other stuffed animals will get new homes after health concerns kept them hidden