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<p>Ig Nobel prize winners: A researcher has found that the world's oldest man, Jiroemon Kimura, has "an extraordinary number of biographical anomalies and has three reported birthdays: one that seems to have been forged, one that was a typographic error inserted by demographers, and one that is supposedly real." Other prizes go to a project on teaching pigeons to guide missiles; and research into cows temporarily stopping ejecting milk when frightened</p>

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