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A Mysterious Hunt for Cash Is Underway in a Canadian City

Miramichi, New Brunswick, residents can thank Roman Dungarvan, whoever that is

(Newser) - It'll be a Friday the 13th like no other in the small Canadian city of Miramichi. The New Brunswick locale is home to 17,600 people, and someone among them has started hiding $100 bills with sometimes creepy clues leading to them. And on Friday the 13th comes the...

You Had One Job, Lottery Ball Caller

Mega Millions suspends payments after host mistakes a 9 for a 6

(Newser) - The man calling the winner numbers in this week's Mega Millions jackpot made a very public mistake, one that has resulted in temporarily suspended payouts. John Crow mistook a 9 for a 6 in his televised announcement, reports CNN . As you might expect, that caused quite a bit of...

Anna Wintour's 'Go-To' Lunch Is Very Unique

A caprese salad without the tomatoes? Weird, but that's apparently the 'Vogue' editor's thing

(Newser) - The reviews are out for the new Anna Wintour biography, but one in particular has picked up on a rather odd tidbit from the Vogue editor-in-chief's life. Writing about Anna , Amy Odell's 400-page-plus deep dive into Wintour, for the Grub Street blog , Emilia Petrarca said one specific line...

At Airport Lost and Found, an Unusual Reunion

Utah woman has her beloved taxidermy rat back in her possession

(Newser) - About a week ago, KSL News in Salt Lake City ran a story about the variety of items that accumulate in the airport's lost-and-found office. As news stories go these days, it was a light piece, focused mainly on what becomes of the thousands of items travelers leave behind...

&#39;Stray Lion&#39; in Bushes Was Just a Shopping Bag
'Stray Lion' Alert Leads to
Much More Innocuous Find
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May 8, 2022 11:35 AM CDT

'Stray Lion' Alert Leads to Much More Innocuous Find

It was a shopping bag with a lion's face on it in the bushes outside a Kenyan home

(Newser) - A farmhand in Kenya may be feeling a little foolish today, but also pretty lucky: His anxiety-ridden "stray lion" sighting turned out not to be a lion after all. The BBC reports on the incident that took place in Kinyana, a village not far from Mount Kenya National Park,...

This Is 5 M&amp;Ms in a Stack. It&#39;s Also a New World Record
Stack of 7 M&Ms
Takes the Cake
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May 7, 2022 5:00 PM CDT

Stack of 7 M&Ms Takes the Cake

Master balancer Ibrahim Sadeq of Iraq is latest to claim the world record

(Newser) - Update: Will Cutbill had just eight and a half months to enjoy his Guinness World Record for the Tallest Stack of M&Ms at five. The Brit's achievement on Jan. 31, 2021 was the first of three times the world record would be broken in a 15-month span, per...

1631 Bible Is Missing a Very Important Word
1631 Bible Is Missing
a Very Important Word
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
May 7, 2022 6:30 AM CDT

1631 Bible Is Missing a Very Important Word

'Wicked Bible' dropped word 'not,' inadvertently encouraged adultery

(Newser) - It's considered "one of the most serious blunders in publishing history," according to the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. But also one of the funniest: A Bible printed in England in 1631 left out the word "not" in the Seventh Commandment and thus instructed readers:...

Passenger Jet Turns Back Over Pilot's Certification

Virgin Atlantic co-pilot hadn't taken his final assessment flight with the airline

(Newser) - As far as reasons go for a passenger jet having to turn around midflight, it's a weird one. A Virgin Atlantic flight returned to UK's Heathrow Airport after 40 minutes because the co-pilot technically wasn't qualified to fly, reports the BBC . It may sound worse than it...

Family Thought They Heard Snoring. Turned Out 5 Bears Were Living Under House
That Snoring Noise Was
Not What Family Thought
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Apr 30, 2022 5:00 PM CDT

That Snoring Noise Was Not What Family Thought

Mom and 4 yearling cubs have since moved on from hibernating under Lake Tahoe home

(Newser) - A California family thought they occasionally heard a strange sound coming from underneath their Lake Tahoe home, but when they asked neighbors to listen for the rumbly noise, similar to snoring, no one else noticed it. So they ignored it ... until last week, when the five bears who'd spent...

Dollar Tree &#39;Help Wanted&#39; Sign Does Not Go Over Well
Dollar Tree 'Help Wanted' Sign
Does Not Go Over Well
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Apr 30, 2022 9:30 AM CDT

Dollar Tree 'Help Wanted' Sign Does Not Go Over Well

Manager out of a job after saying Gen Z'ers need not apply

(Newser) - A Dollar Tree manager whose "help wanted" sign went viral for the wrong reasons is now out of a job. The story is out of Bremen, Indiana, where WNDU reports that an apparently peeved manager posted the following message on his store's front door: "I apologize for...

Family's Souvenir Causes Airport Panic

US travelers in Israel had unexploded shell in their luggage

(Newser) - A US family's trip to the Middle East ended in chaos when airport screeners found an unexploded shell they'd found and kept as a souvenir. Reuters reports on the Thursday incident at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, where the family showed up for their trip back to the...

Big-Shot Soccer Agent's Angry Tweet: I'm Not Dead

The world thought Dutch national Mino Raiola had died; he cleared things up online

(Newser) - It's true that, before this week, Mino Raiola's Twitter account hadn't posted since mid-January, when someone tweeting on his behalf wrote that he'd undergone "ordinary medical checks" that involved anesthesia. But the prolonged online absence of the renowned soccer agent didn't necessarily mean he'...

Corrections Officer Charged in Death of Beloved Rooster

Carl the Rooster once roamed the streets of of downtown Ocean Springs, Mississippi

(Newser) - A corrections officer in Mississippi has been fired for her alleged role in the death of a town's most beloved rooster. Carl the Rooster was the most well-known bird in a band of chickens that has been roaming downtown Ocean Springs for years, the Clarion Ledger reports. After Carl...

Awful-Smelling Foam Is Invading This City

Toxic foam from polluted river has become the bane of Mosquera, a suburb of Bogota, Colombia

(Newser) - Playing in foam is usually fun—think bubble baths when you were a kid. But in the streets of one suburb of Bogota, Colombia, residents flee toxic clouds of the stuff wafting over from a nearby polluted river, bringing an unpleasant odor and suspected to be the cause of a...

Florida Home for Sale Comes With Realtor's Ex

All yours for $699K in Panama City

(Newser) - Earlier this month, a home went up for sale in Virginia with an unwanted squatter in the basement. Now comes one in Florida that comes complete with an ex-husband, reports WMBB . The listing out of Panama City has gone viral since it was highlighted by Zillow Gone Wild . Realtor Crystal...

Cat Missing 5 Years Turns Up on Offshore Oil Rig

Dexter has been returned home to Scotland

(Newser) - A missing cat turned up in the most impossible-seeming of places: on an offshore oil rig in the North Sea. How the cat—whose microchip revealed him to be named Dexter and who had been missing for five years—ended up off the coast of Scotland is only partly a...

7-Car Crash on SC Interstate Caused By ... Pony

It's not clear how the animal got there

(Newser) - A seven-car crash on a South Carolina interstate was caused by a pony, authorities say. The small pony was captured on video prancing through traffic in Spartanburg County on Saturday morning, WYFF-4 reports, and police say it caused a chain reaction of crashes. One person was hospitalized with minor injuries,...

Florida Bride, Caterer Allegedly Laced Food With Marijuana
After Guests Fall Ill at Wedding,
Bride and Caterer Are Arrested
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Apr 24, 2022 7:00 AM CDT

After Guests Fall Ill at Wedding, Bride and Caterer Are Arrested

Affidavits say the two laced the reception food with marijuana

(Newser) - Feeling joyous and elated at a wedding is one thing. Feeling "weird, tingly, fidgety, and had an extremely dry mouth" is another. That's how one guest at a Feb. 19 wedding reception in Longwood, Fla., described feeling, and police allege it's because the food was laced with...

She Drops Phone in Outhouse. Things Get Much Worse

Woman gets stuck in toilet trying to retrieve it in Olympic National Forest

(Newser) - A woman who accidentally dropped her cellphone into the hole of an outhouse in a national forest and fell in while trying to retrieve it had to be rescued by firefighters in Washington state, per the AP . Brinnon Fire Department Chief Tim Manly said the woman, who was at the...

Man's Dentist Visit Ends Up Landing Him in the Hospital

Tom Jozsi apparently inhaled a drill bit

(Newser) - If you have a deep fear of going to the dentist, maybe stop reading here. A routine trip to get his teeth worked on was anything but normal for an Illinois man, who inhaled the dentist's drill bit and had to go to the hospital to get it removed...

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