WEIRD NEWS

Reese's releases its largest peanut butter cup ever in the form of a full-size Thanksgiving pie.

A little girl who lost a teddy bear she’d had since being adopted from an Ethiopian orphanage thought it was gone forever when she forgot it along a trail in Glacier National Park last year.

An 89-year-old man in Rhode Island has earned his Ph.D. and became a physicist after working toward it for two decades and thinking about it for a lifetime.

A man disrobed — at least partially — during Tuesday’s Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce meeting that was held on Zoom.

Britain's telecommunications regulator says thousands of iconic red phone booths will be protected from removal under new rules.

Instead of a message in a bottle, it was the decals on a trash can that tell the story of a 3,500-mile voyage, from South Carolina to Ireland.

Santa may have fewer eyes in homes this Christmas season after a judge — jokingly — banned the Elf on the Shelf.

A 9-foot-tall video game joystick made of wood, rubber and steel has made it into the Guinness World Records 2022.

The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum launched a bobblehead of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, saying there have been “customer requests from both sides of the aisle.”

Jonathan Johnson spent weeks on a ventilator battling COVID-19, then decided to get married — in the hospital.

The National Toy Hall of Fame has inducted American Girl dolls and the strategy board game Risk, recognizing each for their influence on the toy industry.

A New Zealand couple have unearthed a huge potato that is quite possibly the largest on record.

An extraordinarily rare coin with a face value of just pennies when it was minted in mid-17th century New England could sell for the equivalent of about $300,000 when it’s put up for auction in London next month.

Travel-starved, sleep-deprived residents might find a new Hong Kong bus tour to be a snooze.

An emergency call made by a 4-year-old New Zealand boy asking for police to come over and check out his toys prompted a real-life callout and confirmation from an officer that the toys were, indeed, pretty cool.

No bull: Tucson police had to respond Tuesday morning to reports of a bull roaming a neighborhood near an elementary school.

Queen Elizabeth II is Britain’s longest-lived and longest-reigning monarch.

A Vermont high school homecoming football game turned into a “drag ball” runway at halftime with a mix of students and faculty members parading in gowns, wigs and makeup, and a big crowd in rainbow colors.

Giant panda twins born at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo in June now have their names.

A flood-hit riverside restaurant in Thailand has become an unlikely dining hotspot after fun-loving foodies began flocking to its waterlogged deck to eat amid the lapping tide.

A longtime Alabama sheriff removed from office after being convicted of theft and ethics violations is giving five-star reviews to the jail where he spent more than two weeks in custody.

Officials have announced that New York City’s public libraries will no longer charge late fees and will waive existing fines for overdue books and other materials.

The Greek prime minister's pet dog Peanut has briefly interrupted a news conference attended by the visiting prime minister of Slovakia.

As seen in a video going viral online, Eugene Bozzi of Mount Dora used a bulky recycling bin to help scoop up the hissing alligator as neighbors cheered him on.