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Woman diagnosed with fear of vegetables |
 A 22-year-old student from Portsmouth suffers from a rare phobia which renders her terrified of vegeta... |
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Bizarre plant root resembles boy |
 Scientists are attempting to understand the process that created a bizarre 12 lb root that was dug out o... |
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Somali man, 112, weds girl, 17 |
 A 112-year-old man in Somalia has married a 17-year-old girl in a wedding that hundreds attended. Her... |
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Woman swallows 78 items of cutlery |
 A 52-year-old woman with an obsession for swallowing cutlery had to undergo an operation after she consum... |
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Giant pumpkin breaks record |
 Just in time for Halloween, a school teacher in Ohio has grown a record breaking giant pumpkin that's ... |
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Real-life Harry Potter laments name |
 A 20-year-old Briton who shares the name of the fictional boy wizard Harry Potter and who even has a ... |
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Man proves he has world's strongest fingers |
 A kung fu master from China has been recognised in the Guiness Book of Records as having the world's ... |
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Tommy Cooper found in meat pie |
 A fish shop owner in Wales, Crad Jones, has found the uncanny likeness of comic legend Tommy Cooper i... |
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Cat registered as hypnotherapist |
 In a demonstration aimed at showing how lax hypnotherapist regulations are in the UK a BBC presenter has been... |
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5-rupee coin stops bullet headed for heart |
 A man in India this week was miraculously saved from a bullet fired at his heart by a five-rupee coin in hi... |
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Hovis bakes 3,300lb bread and butter pudding |
 Hovis have entered the record books by baking a bread and butter pudding so large that it weighs more t... |
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Bizarre achievements win Ig Nobel prizes |
 A number of unusual achievements have been honoured with this year's Ig Nobel prize including a design... |
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10-year-old girl sells gran on eBay |
 A 10-year-old schoolgirl who had grown tired of her grandmother's "moaning" put her up for sale on eBay whe... |
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Man lives with 100,000 bees |
 A man in Zimbabwe has been accused of witchcraft as he has lived with over 100,000 bees in his small house f... |
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Dalek created out of 480,000 matchsticks |
 A 66-year-old man in Bognor Regis, England has spent the better part of two years creating a full scale m... |
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Woman saved by "guardian angel"
A man suffering from a rare condition that covered his body in unusual shell-like growths has undergone ...
A man who self-medicated on silver compound to treat a skin condition for over 10 years has turned blue as ...
A new study has revealed that over 25 million people in Britain have been injured by biscuits with 500 pe...
A man living in a rural area of Australia discovered a python almost twice his size in the toilet bowl, it ...
In a miraculous escape this week a man survived driving his car off a 200ft high cliff in North Devon, when...
