Soccer-Japan’s oracle octopus boiled and butchered
04 July 2018 |
9:31 am
An octopus that successfully predicted all of Japan's World Cup group stage matches was boiled, butchered and sent away to be sold on June 27, according to the fisherman who originally caught the psychic cephalopod.
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