A country without a single olive tree wins the World Olive Picking Championship in Croatia and a British Columbia man whose tongue-in-cheek campaign signs branded him as unqualified wins a city council election on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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A nearly 100-pound tortoise escapes from home in Colorado and a California duo assemble the Lego World Map in under 5 hours on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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The world record for the largest dog pool party is broken at a Nevada water park and the Fat Dogs of Delhi account on Instagram seeks to crown the city's conkiest canine on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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A giant inflatable pumpkin blows away from a North Carolina farm to roll down a road and a box purchased from a Texas estate sale turns out to be full of live grenades dating from World War II on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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Katmai National Park in Alaska crowns the winner of this year's Fat Bear Week and a shark swims through a flooded New Jersey road on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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Researchers in Massachusetts study a rare two-headed diamondback terrapin, a cow escapes a wildlife auction and stops highway traffic and a deer with a pole and netting stuck in its antlers is rescued on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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The UPI Odd News Minute presidents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly roundup of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make this week's podcasts. Today's stories include a bear raiding a Colorado farmers market, the world's largest collection of energy drink cans, an ill-fated attempt to wrestle an escaped emu and the latest installment of The Afternoon Rush.

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