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Robert Breton, 35, ditched his life as a supermarket cashier in Northern California to live as he wanted to ‘preserve nature as a whole’ – he has been living remotely since 2011 when he travelled throughout the US in a van to find the perfect place to build a house.

He bought the land using his monthly TikTok earnings and said he does not ‘miss a thing’ from his previous life.

In 2020, he decided to settle in Hawaii, and bought a quarter of an acre of land plus building materials for around £24,120.

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He can’t drive or grow a beard, yet he’s a highly successful recent Fullerton College graduate.

12-year-old Clovis Hung has set a new record at Fullerton College in California by becoming their youngest ever graduate.

Hung was inspired by a 13-year-old graduate who previously held the title when he finished his studies in 2020.

Of his impressive achievement, Hung said: “I also wanted to be the youngest graduate. I didn’t expect to beat him.”

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Robin Riedel has been playing Oregon Lottery games with the philosophy, “It’s not a matter of if, but when.”

His “when” came on Monday, when he hit the jackpot in the Oregon Lottery’s Win for Life game, earning him a $1,000 check each week for the rest of his life.

Riedel, who drives a truck for a concrete company, said he has played the game regularly since it launched in 2009.

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An art student has eaten the central installation in an exhibit by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. His excuse was, he was hungry.

The South Korean student has eaten a banana that may be the most expensive craving he’s ever indulged.

Indeed, art major at Seoul National University Noh Huyn-soo has eaten a banana that was part of an installation by Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan.

The artwork called “Comedian”, part of Cattelan’s’s exhibition “WE”, consisted of a ripe banana duct-taped to a wall at Seoul’s Leeum Musuem of Art.

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Do you know the story of a man who was the world’s biggest bigamist? He married more than a hundred women between 1949 and 1981 without ever getting divorced. This led to him earning the title of the man with the most bigamous marriages.

The Guinness World Records shared a Twitter video detailing the life story of Giovanni. He tied the knot with more than a hundred ladies, about 104 or 105 in 27 different US states and 14 other nations. He assumed a different identity every time he married someone. This is why the women he met barely knew each other and even him.

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The man received a fine around $14,700 for the same.

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A 61-year-old Japanese civil servant was recently punished for smoking more than 4,500 times while at work over the course of 14 years. He received a fine of almost 1.44 million yen (S$14,700) for smoking during working hours, according to the Straits Times.

The Osaka authorities each handed down the law to the 61-year-old civil officer and two of his coworkers in the finance department. In September 2022, an anonymous tip led the human resources department to discover of the group’s s ecret tobacco stash. Following the incident, their manager called them and warned them of dire consequences if they were caught smoking again. Even so, the group didn’t stop smoking.

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A 69-year-old woman finally passed her driving test on her 960th go after spending more than £11,000.

Cha Sa-soon, from Jeonju in South Korea, first attempted the written test all the way back in April 2005.

After failing her first go at it, she continued to retake the test every day, five days a week, for three years.

She later started taking the test only twice a week until she passed, before having to move on to the practical test.

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Bengaluru traffic woes are well known. This traffic gridlock has turned out to be a “bonus” for a groom who just got married. He fled away from the car during a traffic jam in the tech corridor of Mahadevapura, the day after the wedding as he was driving home with the bride, Times of India reported.

Following the filing of a complaint on March 5, police are attempting to nab the fleeing groom.

The report claims that the pair got their car stranded for ten minutes close to Pai Layout while they were returning from a church visit the day after their wedding.

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