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The baby fox was removed from the tire and the fox and its sibling were taken to a specialist wildlife center to be cared for until they are old enough to live on their own in the wild.

Facebook apologizes for confusing landmark name with offensive term

Facebook apologized to members of groups based in Plymouth, England, when posts mentioning a local landmark called the Plymouth Hoe were incorrectly flagged as containing foul language.

The name of the landmark comes from the Anglo-Saxon word "hoe," which describes a sloping ridge shaped like an inverted foot and heel, but Facebook incorrectly flagged the term as misogynistic hate-speech and removed the posts.

Father, son hang 10 clothing items to break world record

Edward Draper and son Rowan Draper broke a Guinness World Record at Turk's Head pub in Twickenham, London, by hanging up 10 items of clothing in 56.87 seconds.

The father and son duo said they spent hours of practice time selecting the best clothing items to use for the attempt and the fastest techniques to get them onto hangers and a rack.

 

Fragment of long-lost 12th-century poem found in book binding

Tamara Atkin, a researcher from Queen Mary University of London, was examining a book published in 1528 when she discovered the binding contained a fragment from the long-lost poem, Siege d'Orange.

The poem tells the story of the siege of Orange, a city in the Rhone Valley, and is part of a cycle of epic narrative poems about the legendary hero Guillaume d'Orange. The fragment found by Atkin is believed to be from a version published in the late 13th century.

Man harvests 1,269 cherry tomatoes from a single stem

Douglas Smith of Hertfordshire, England, put his green thumb to the limit when he harvested 1,269 tomatoes from a single plant stem, breaking the Guinness World Record most tomatoes from a single stem/truss.

Smith, who had broken the same record just a few weeks earlier when he harvested 839 from a single stem, said he studied multiple books on gardening and took soil samples for laboratory analysis to prepare for his record attempts.


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