Psychic Octopus Tips Spain To Beat Germany
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I am no fan of the World Cup. But after I read a post title about a psychic octopus, I just had to read about it. A “psychic” octopus called Paul tipped Spain Tuesday to beat Germany in the football World Cup semi-final.
The eight-legged oracle who has successfully predicted all five of Germany’s games in South Africa, carefully weighed up the two teams, before plumping for Spain, prompting anguished groans from the assembled media scrum.
Carried live on national television, two plastic boxes, one with a German flag and one with a Spanish, were lowered into Paul’s tank at an aquarium in western Germany, each with a tasty morsel of food inside.
The box which Paul opens first is adjudged to be his predicted winner.
Paul has been wrong before, though. In the European Championships in 2008, he had an 80 percent record, getting only one match wrong. Confirming his reputation as a prognosticator par-excellence, he kept up his astonishing run of form by tipping Germany to beat highly fancied Argentina in the quarter-finals which is pretty impressive.
While it is absurd that an octopus can be psychic, the number of times it predicted the winner is simply astonishing 
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