/ 20 February 2024

Fruit sculptures, a misfortunate mistake, and a stolen guitar

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The French Riviera town of Menton is getting into the Olympic spirit by using 140 tonnes of citrus fruit to create sculptures of athletes. More than 200,000 people are expected to check out the giant floats made from over 500,000 lemons. That’s a lot of lemonade…

The odds of winning the US Powerball are 292.2 million to one, but the odds of being mistakenly told you’ve won US$340 million are even lower… No wonder Washington DC man John Cheeks is suing the lottery after its website showed his numbers as the winning combination by mistake… 

Beatles fans from around the world have Come Together to pull off the seemingly impossible task of helping Paul McCartney Get Back his bass guitar that was stolen over 50 years ago… Given the instrument is worth over $19 million – no wonder he was grateful for their Help!

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