Harry Potter gave Dobby a sock... and then thousands of other people did the same thing on a beach in Wales.
Move over Harry Potter - one UK-based startup is about to give the iconic wizard's invisibility cloak a run for its money.
As if the odds of winning once weren't high enough - one man has managed to defy them twice.
Archaeologists have unearthed a pottery shard that still bears the fingerprint of the person who made it.
A woman from Toronto scooped a $60 million jackpot with numbers picked from the unlikeliest of sources.
South Africa's national lottery has come under scrutiny after a perfect progression of numbers was drawn.
One fortunate Colorado resident couldn't believe his luck when he managed to scoop two consecutive jackpots.
A new species of green pit viper has been discovered during an expedition to a remote region of India.
An apparition has been reported by multiple witnesses near a viaduct in the town of Scunthorpe, England.
Mathematics researchers in Denmark have finally solved a riddle first put forward all the way back in 1969.
A private Catholic school in Nashville has claimed that the Harry Potter books contain 'actual spells and curses.'
An evangelical group has taken to burning J.K Rowling's novels because it considers them 'sacrilegious'.
An experimental nuclear fusion reactor in China has achieved a temperature six times hotter than the Sun.
The remarkable species, which once roamed what is now China, had a bite comparable to that of a bear.
19-year-old Rosa Dominguez struck it rich, not once, but twice after buying two $5 tickets back in June.
A new paper has suggested using a lottery and savings bond as a way to fund the search for alien life.
Douglas and Barbara Fink, who are from Canada, have won the lottery three times in the last 28 years.
Paleontologists have revealed the discovery of a prehistoric otter that was around the size of a wolf.
A husband and wife from the UK missed out on the lottery jackpot despite matching all six numbers.
A crowdfunding campaign for a role-playing wizard's school adventure has so far raised over $230,000.