Here are the stories which are true but really odd...

January 22, 2022

Tucker Carlson bemoans fact he's no longer attracted to "less sexy" M&M cartoons (salon.com) 23:22


‘A very Adelaide thing to do’: who is behind the city’s googly eyes wave? (theguardian.com) 22:00


Due to Shortages, National Guardsmen are Now Substitute Teachers (themountain.news) 20:13


Don't approach lab monkey missing after crash, people told (apnews.com) 20:02


Pensioner ‘died three hours’ before body was carried in to post office to claim pension, postmortem indicates (m.independent.ie) 19:58


Two men take corpse into Irish post office to claim dead man’s pension (theguardian.com) 19:24


Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge (bbc.com) 19:20


Dutch police to text message 3,500 drug users after seizing dealers' phones; the text message which police will send out on Monday directs people to a website where they can get help with breaking their habits (dutchnews.nl) 19:17


2 weeks out from the Olympics, China is back to using anal COVID-19 swab tests on some Beijing residents to try to detect Omicron cases (insider.com) 18:33


Maine man carrying own severed arm saved by workers sanding sidewalks (theguardian.com) 17:12


Milwaukee home features 4-toilet communal bathroom (tmj4.com) 16:14


Truck with 100 monkeys crashes, some of them missing (kutv.com) 15:57


Weber Grills apologizes for ill-timed meat loaf recipe email (wpri.com) 15:27


Man carrying his own arm down Maine street saved by crew of arborists (pressherald.com) 14:25


Stranded dog saved from drowning after rescuers attach sausage to drone (theguardian.com) 14:24


‘Karen’ Flashes ID at Black Man on TikTok Who Ate Gummy Worms Before Paying for Them (yahoo.com) 14:16


"We went from not even having our licenses to saving people's lives": Group of young adults step up amid EMT shortage in New York town (cbsnews.com) 14:12


Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge (bbc.co.uk) 10:36


Great Hamster Rescue Sends Hong Kong Into A Furry Frenzy (wsj.com) 07:50


Let the Green M&M Be a Nasty Little Slut (rollingstone.com) 05:27


Meat Loaf said Prince Andrew once tried to push him into a moat after he caught Sarah Ferguson 'paying attention' to him (yahoo.com) 02:47