The “world’s most expensive candle”, named Smells Like Capitalism, has been put on sale priced at £2,021. Its maker, Flaming Crap, says it “gives off an aroma of musky leather aroma with notes of Great British sterling kept in an off-shore account”. It was inspired by Gwyneth Paltrow’s “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle.
£6.2m stamp ‘smaller than expected’
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Lottery winner shares jackpot with herself
A lottery winner who accidentally bought two identical tickets for the same draw has ended up sharing the jackpot prize with herself. Susan Gray, from North Carolina, is believed to be the world’s first sole joint jackpot winner, having scooping two halves of the $305,046 (£221,000) top prize of the Carolina Cash 5 draw. “It was really an accident that I played both,” she said.
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