Reuters: Oddly Enough

• Cape Town restaurant wins Guinness world milkshake record
  Guinness World Records has named a South African restaurant as the official titleholder for 'Most Varieties of Milkshakes Commercially Available'.
• Osaka airport introduces canine comfort room, complete with pole
  Osaka's Itami airport is setting up a toilet area for travelling dogs, complete with a pole for them to cock a leg on.
• Come to Rio, get robbed: Brazil tourism body shares awkward Instagram post
  When marketing Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's national tourism agency typically focuses on the city's world-class beaches, samba-filled music scene and caipirinha-fueled parties. Violent crime is rarely listed among the attractions.
• Japanese billionaire Maezawa pulls out of dating show that promised the moon
  Japanese fashion billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has pulled out of a documentary search for a girlfriend to take on his voyage around the moon with Elon Musk's SpaceX, citing his "mixed feelings" about participating.
• Lengthy pizza delivers funds for embattled Australian firefighters
  An Italian restaurant in Australia has made a 103 meter (338 foot) Margherita pizza to raise funds for firefighters battling bushfires.
• Ultra trail runner Jornet beats base jumper in odd contest
  Ultra trail runner Kilian Jornet beat base jumper Tom Erik Heimen in an unusual contest -- one ran up and down a mountain while the other climbed up and flew down in a race last year, footage of which was released on Tuesday.
• Doctor TikTok-ed off with injured All Blacks loose forward Savea
  Injured All Blacks loose forward Ardie Savea has been ordered to curb his use of the social media platform TikTok as he recovers from knee surgery.
• Drink like a Mexican kingpin: 'El Chapo' beer launched by daughter
  Have a cold one, have an "El Chapo" beer. That's the message of Alejandrina Guzman, whose company has developed a craft beer dedicated to her infamous, incarcerated kingpin father Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
• Moonstruck: Japanese billionaire's girlfriend entrants top 20,000
  Applications to become Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa's girlfriend have topped 20,000, streaming service AbemaTV said on Thursday, ahead of its documentary on his search for a "life partner" to take on his moon voyage.
• Brain freeze: Russian firm offers path to immortality for a fee
  When Alexei Voronenkov's 70-year-old mother passed away, he paid to have her brain frozen and stored in the hope breakthroughs in science will one day be able to bring her back to life.