Aug. 10 (UPI) — A Florida couple made an unwelcome discovery inside the toilet in their guest bathroom — an iguana. Crystal Collins of Hollywood said she and her husband initially thought the iguana they found in the toilet bowl was dead. “The sounds that came out of my husband were so funny,” she told CBS Miami. “We […]

Aug. 10 (UPI) — An Alaskan cyclist is attempting to get recognition from Guinness World Records after taking a 500-mile bike ride across Iowa — while riding backward. Will Walker took a 500-mile ride across the state with about 30,000 other cyclists in this year’s Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, but Walker was the only […]

Aug. 10 (UPI) — A Maryland man who regularly uses his mother’s license plate number to play the lottery ended up using the digits to score a $50,000 Pick 5 prize. The Forestville man told Maryland Lottery officials he bought his ticket for the Aug. 5 Pick 5 evening drawing at the Exxon gas station on Suitland Road in […]

ug. 10 (UPI) — The Illinois State Fair unveiled one of the annual event’s most beloved and unusual perennial attractions: an 800-pound cow sculpted from butter. The 102nd Butter Cow was officially unveiled by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Agriculture Director Jerry Costello II at the Illinois State Fairgrounds. This year’s unveiling ceremony featured Pritzker using a squeegee […]

Aug. 10 (UPI) — A 4-foot lizard who escaped from his outdoor enclosure in Minnesota was safely returned home after being found near a cemetery several days later. Cody Whitehead of Rochester said the black and white Argentine tegu lizard, Porkchop, escaped from his outdoor summer habitat on Friday. Whitehead, who has owned the lizard for nine years, […]