WEIRD NEWS

A Wisconsin waitress got a $1,000 tip from Christmas morning customer.

South Korea has formally lifted a ban on the import of full-body sex dolls, ending years of debate over how much the government can interfere in private life.

The U.S. military agency known for tracking Santa Claus doesn’t expect COVID-19 or the “bomb cyclone” hitting North America to affect Saint Nick’s Christmas Eve deliveries.

A “Cousin Eddie” display in Kentucky apparently looked a little too real and police were called to check it out.

Philadelphia Eagles lineman Jason Kelce, Jordan Mailata, and Lane Johnson have released a Christmas album.

Several motorists who were speeding through an elementary school zone on the Florida Keys Overseas Highway received an odorous onion as a reminder to slow down from a county sheriff’s deputy dressed as the Grinch.

Investigators say the shooter was upset because the restaurant was out of corn.

A NASA rover on Mars by chance had its microphone on when a whirling tower of red dust passed overhead last year and caught the sound.

Los Angeles authorities have given a little girl a license to own a unicorn — if she can find one.

Hate rats.

Believe it or not, an iconic part of the Atlantic City Boardwalk is closing soon.

A celery stalk sighting and a little luck came together to help a New Hampshire man find his wife’s wedding rings in a 20-ton trash trailer, wrapped in a napkin that he had accidentally thrown away.

The election to fill a city council seat in a Michigan town has been settled by drawing two pieces of paper from a bowl, days after a 616-616 tie.

The California house where Steve Jobs co-founded Apple is a historical site, and now the sandals he wore while pacing its floors have been sold for nearly $220,000.

Authorities say a 9-year-old Wisconsin elementary school student may have saved the life of one of her classmates by peforming the Heimlich maneuver on her as she choked during lunch.

A Tyrannosaurus rex skull is expected to sell for $15 million or more at auction in New York next month.

A pair of dogs gifted by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in 2018 are now mired in a South Korean political row, with the country’s former president blaming his conservative successor for a lack of support as he gave the animals up.

The Westminster Kennel Club dog show is moving next year to a new venue — the home of the U.S. Open tennis tournament.

A horticulture teacher from Minnesota has set a new U.S. record for the heaviest pumpkin after raising a giant gourd weighing 2,560 pounds.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has received an unusual gift for his 70th birthday: a tractor.

Many silent films from the early 1900s no longer exist.

A menagerie of parrots has been rescued from a Pine Island bird sanctuary after its owners refused to evacuate without them in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.

A 2,554-pound pumpkin grown in upstate New York has set a new U.S. record for the heaviest.

A California woman has been charged with killing a man by ramming her car into him after accusing him of trying to run over a cat in the street.