A man from Illinois scooped up Richard Nixon’s sandwich 60 years ago, on September 22nd 1960, when the politician was visiting home to give a speech in Sullivan. And he still has the sandwich. Steve Jenne has been invited onto several tv shows like “The Tonight Show,” with Johnny Carson, because of the buffalo barbeque …
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We, the people, like to process history through anniversaries. For one reason or another, we tend to put special emphasis on how many years it’s been since something happened. Not that there’s anything wrong with the practice. When it comes to big anniversaries, 2020 has some good ones. For instance, this August marked the 75th …
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Do you think after 2020 that we will hear the words quarantine, mask, or toilet paper, and not shutter for a second? No, me either. But not all quarantine is bad, and this is why. Spending Time This is the thing, most of us have a little extra time these days, and with lots of …
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File this one under Serious Nightmare Fuel. Paramedics were called to the home of Timesha Beauchamp because she was unresponsive. They spent a half-hour trying to revive her under the consultation of an emergency room doctor. It was that doctor who pronounced Beauchamp, “deceased based upon medical information provided.” No word on what that medical …
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2020 has been such a wild year that a lot of us are in need of some mental support. Many people are turning whatever little kernels of hope they can find to help them pull through. The city of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, found that kernel in a stalk of corn. Any port in a …
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Extreme situations require extreme measures. A California man’s quick-witted response to the LNU Lightning Complex Fires has saved his house and redeemed his taste in beer. More precisely, Charles Little from Vacaville used cans of Bud Light beer to ward off the encroaching flames of a wildfire that threatened to consume his home that was …
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We here at Oddee have covered our fair share of unlikely events. From long-lost sisters reunited by the coronavirus to a farmer returning a skydiver’s severed leg, we’ve pretty much learned to expect the unexpected. Or at least you’d think so, but then something else happens against such mindblowing odds that you can’t help but …
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From the snarling feral beasts of Aliens to a kind wrinkled raisin that just wants to phone home, some kinds of extraterrestrials have fascinated people pretty much ever since stories were a thing. Maybe we just like to think that we’re not so utterly alone in the universe. Now a U.S. ex-military boss is saying …
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In a story twist that could’ve popped straight out of a Pixar writers’ brainstorming session, a curious chicken recently went on a journey of a lifetime. And just like the studio’s best animated features, this animal story has a happy ending. Reba is a Rhode Island Red hen living in Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas, as …
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Here’s a big fish story to top anything your grandpa has told you: my catch was so dangerous that the army had to get involved. Yeah, right. What could you possibly fish up that warranted military intervention? Try a hand grenade. That is exactly what two schoolboys in southern Finland managed to pull up on …
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