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If it looks too good to be true, it is.

L.A. cops came upon a pair of street merchants who were looking to sell antique silver dollars for only $20 a pop.

Unfortunately, the 1796 silver dollar contains 15 stars, not 13, and George Washington first showed up on quarters in 1932, not 1832, as the fakes depicted.

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Somehow, even pay-per-view missed this: Five contestants vied for the title of Miss Tibet over the weekend.

The contest, run by Tibetan refugees in northern India, had participants strut their stuff in bikinis for the first time in front of a public audience.

Conservative Buddhists weren’t pleased.

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A Japanese baby has a grandma for a mom – or vice-versa – after a 50-something woman went the distance to help her 30-something daughter, who couldn’t bear children.

The older woman, a surrogate mother, recently gave birth to the child using one of her daughter’s eggs along with her son-in-law’s sperm, said the Kyodo news agency.

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Think of the honeymoon.

A teenage boy wed a hill – yes, a hill – in Eastern India so he could break a curse that a goddess put on his mom, according to Agence France-Presse.

“I have accepted the hill as my wife,” the boy named Robin told the Hindustan Times.

“I have no remorse,” he added.

A local anthropology professor in India told AFP that there are many examples of tribal people, such as Robin, marrying objects that appear in nature, including trees and animals.

We’re sure that by the time he’s older, Robin will be over the hill.

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A 10-year-old Italian boy has become the youngest person ever to swim across the Strait of Messina – and was rewarded with pudding.

Giuseppe Mangano yesterday made the 2-mile crossing in less than an hour, the ANSA news agency reported.

Giuseppe’s father, Baldassare, said, “We’re happy because he’s happy, but today . . . will be like any other Sunday: lunch with his favorite pudding, and then outside to play.”

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