The Daily Extra #72

You can buy someone’s lost luggage

“The Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Ala. is the nation’s only retailer of lost luggage. The store has contracts with all the major airlines and buys unclaimed bags and their contents, only after there’s been a 90-day intensive search for the owner. Some of the oddest finds by UBC include a shrunken human head from the Amazon, a camera from the Space Shuttle, and a 40.95-carat Emerald appraised for $25,000. Today the 50,000 square store boasts more than one million visitors a year from all over the world, making it one of Alabama’s most popular tourist attractions.” 50 Weird Facts That Most People Don’t Know