Everything we know about breakfast is wrong
And other stories from the stranger side of life

Almost everything we think we know about breakfast is wrong, according to new research. “Breakfast itself is a relatively new invention,” Tim Spector, the author of Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food Is Wrong, told The Telegraph. “There isn’t much evidence that hunter-gatherer tribes ate breakfast. There isn’t much evidence that people 500 years ago ate breakfast. There’s been very little research into it. A lot of the science about eating early in the day is becoming shakier and shakier.”
Football match delayed because goals are different sizes
A Championship football match was delayed amid claims that the goals were two different sizes. Ahead of their tie with Wigan Athletic at the DW Stadium, coaching staff from Cardiff City suggested one of the goals was two inches higher than the permitted eight foot. “I did ask if we could attack that end in both halves but they weren't having that,” Cardiff caretaker manager, Mark Hudson, told Sky News. However, his team did go on to win the match 3-1.
‘Harry Potter plant’ hospitalises 10 in Italy
A vegetable that has magical powers in the Harry Potter novels has hospitalised ten people in Naples after they accidentally ate it. Mandrake, a green-leafed plant, gave victims stomach pains, vomiting, hallucinations and loss of consciousness. One man “was taken to intensive care”, said The Times. In the Harry Potter stories, mandrake is depicted as a key ingredient in potions and has a living root that screams when unearthed, killing anyone who hears it.
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