9 April 2017
A shin-kicking contest held in the Cotswolds since 1612 has been cancelled due to health and safety and lack of interest.
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Octopuses can edit their own DNA and overcome their genetic programming.
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For ten years throughout the 1920s, Hitler lived in a house with a Jewish landlord.
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Three dogs in West Sussex had to be rushed to the vets after a parrot mimicked its owner’s voice and ‘accidentally’ poisoned them by feeding them grapes.
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India is to hold its first Elephant Census in five years.