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WEIRD BUT TRUE

By ANGELA MONTEFINESE, Wire Services

Posted: 3:44 am
July 6, 2008

An angry German lost his head and decapitated Hitler at the opening of Madam Tussauds' Berlin branch.

The furious Fuhrer-hater shoved two guards, jumped over a table and "ripped off the head of the Hitler figure," a police spokesman said.

The wax dictator was a controversial addition to the wax museum and, unlike the other figures, wasn't supposed to be accessible to the public.

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This scheme stinks like Limburger.

More than 10 tons of rotting or expired cheese - complete with mouse droppings and plastic-wrap residue - were mixed with fresh products and resold as mozzarella and gorgonzola in a stomach-turning recycled-cheese plot involving European dairies.

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Voldemort would be proud.

British animal-welfare officials seized owls and hawks from a falconry that supplied birds for the fourth Harry Potter film, claiming the birds were kept in a "filthy" state.

Nine eagle owls from the farm starred in "The Goblet of Fire" in 2005.

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The mysterious "faceless people" spectators at Wimbledon have turned out to be a bunch of car salesmen.

The eerie group - whose members wear skin-colored latex masks so it looks like they're faceless - are part of a viral marketing campaign by The Lotus Group to drum up interest in its new car, The Eagle.

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Two Swedish men were caught mowing while intoxicated.

After spending all night drinking at home, the two decided to head to their local pub for a nightcap.

They wisely decided to leave their cars at home - but then jumped on their lawnmowers and zoomed off, only to be caught by cops.

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