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13 Sep. 2019

Rugby: Octopuses predict Japan will beat Ireland but not reach knockouts

Two octopuses in Obira, on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, have predicted the hosts of the Rugby World Cup will not progress from their pool when the tournament begins later this month.

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10 Mar. 2020

Farm fire caused by pedometer-eating pigs

Firefighters in Britain said crews responding to a fire at a farm discovered the flames were caused by pigs eating a pedometer.

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17 Sep. 2019

Rugby: Tattooed Samoans don skin suits to avoid offending Japanese hosts

Samoan players will wear their hearts on their sleeves – but keep traditional Pacific islander tattoos under wraps with skin suits during the World Cup in Japan to avoid offending their hosts.

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10 Mar. 2020

Maryland man wins a second lottery jackpot one year later

A Maryland man who won a $50,000 jackpot from a scratch-off lottery ticket said the windfall is his second big prize in about a year.

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14 Sep. 2019

Thieves steal $5 million gold toilet from Britain’s Blenheim Palace

Burglars have stolen a fully-functional 18-carat gold toilet from Britain’s Blenheim Palace, where it had been installed as an art exhibit, police said on Saturday.

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5 Sep. 2019

Just not cricket: Australian charged $68,000 for a beer in Britain

An Australian cricket journalist in Britain for the Ashes test series is claiming to have drunk “the most expensive beer in history” after being charged nearly A$100,000 ($68,120) for the tipple.

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6 Sep. 2019

Climbing: Polish climber Dzienski pips lift in man vs. machine race

It may not match the feeling of winning a world championship but Polish climber Marcin Dzienski’s feat of racing and defeating an elevator up 23 meters will certainly have given him a lift.

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31 Aug. 2019

Maurice the Rooster pitches city slickers against locals in rural France

A loud 4-year-old rooster called Maurice on an island off the French Atlantic shore has pitted a couple of city slickers who bought a second home next door against his owners, and stirred a nationwide debate.

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23 Sep. 2019

From tree to chair without the carpentry: UK couple grows furniture

On a two-acre field in England’s Midlands, Gavin and Alice Munro are taking sustainability to the next level: they harvest trees which they train to grow into chairs.

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13 Sep. 2019

Egyptian masseur plays with fire to ease muscle pain

An Egyptian masseur plays with fire to relieve his clients’ muscle pain at his spa in the Nile Delta governorate of Gharbeya.

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6 Oct. 2019

A 70-year-old biking grandmother conquers Bolivia’s ‘Death Road’

Bolivia´s “Death Road” might seem an odd place for a septuagenarian grandmother on two wheels.

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12 Sep. 2019

Cockpit coffee spill forces commercial jet to make emergency landing

A commercial flight with 326 people on board was forced to make an emergency landing when hot coffee was accidentally spilled over the cockpit control panel over the Atlantic ocean, according to a report on Thursday.

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