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FORK IN THE BRAIN Fairview, Oregon, is seeking a Guinness World Record for the tallest fork, having installed a 37ft (11m) one outside a new food truck plaza. “We wanted something on the corner, and then one of the design teams said, let’s just put a fork here and we’ll come back to it, and it just kind of stuck in the brain,” said Mayor Brian Cooper. “You can come up with an entire marketing scheme of ‘Take a left at the fork’, ‘The Fork in Fairview’”. The current tallest fork is 35ft (10.5m) high and is in Missouri. [UPI] 16 Feb 2022. CHOPPED POTATO In Cyprus, locals awoke on New Year’s Day to find someone had chopped down the 13ft (4m) “Big Potato” that stood at the entrance to…

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