AS we bid farewell to the year, here are some of the stranger achievements of 2015 that you may have missed.
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| The record for the biggest Zumba class was set in the Philippines |
1. Authorities in Wisconsin, USA announced that an empty coffin found on a road had fallen from a vehicle and was not a sign of a zombie apocalypse.
2. A city in the Philippines set a record of 12,975 dancers for the world’s largest Zumba class.
3. A new world record of 39min 20sec was set by Thomas Dodd for running 10,000m backwards.
4. By manipulating the proteins cells use to communicate, scientists in the USA have grown the heads and brains of some species of flatworms on the bodies of other species.
5. Matt “the Megatoad” Stonie set a new record by eating 182 rashers of bacon in five minutes.
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| Dressing up like a centurion is now a crime at the Colosseum |
6. He also set a birthday cake eating record, consuming 14.5lb in eight minutes.
7. In January, a Saudi Arabian cleric banned the building of snowmen as un-Islamic.
8. Dressing up like a centurion and hassling tourists is now a crime at the Colosseum in Rome.
9. An Indonesian prison announced a plan to use crocodiles as guards for death row drug convicts.
10. A drug dealer in France was sent to jail for hitting a blind man who bit him after the dealer tried to sell him lawn grass instead of drugs.
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