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Tentacled tipster Paul the Octopus gets memorial (AP)

12:11am GMT, Friday, 21 January 2011

Photographers surround the monument of Paul the octupus at Sea Life aquarium in Oberhausen, western Germany Thursday Jan. 20, 2011.The two-meter-tall statue has been revealed for Paul the Octopus, the tentacled tipster who fascinated football fans by correctly predicting results at last year's World Cup. A spokeswoman for the Oberhausen aquarium, where Paul lived until he died three months ago, said Thursday the statue was erected because fans from around the world had asked for a place of remembrance for the psychic mollusk. Tanja Munzig said the cremated ashes of Paul were placed in a gold-leaf-covered urn inside an oversized football that is part of the Paul monument. (AP Photo/Dapd/ Volker Hartmann)AP - Paul the celebrated octopus has finally got his tentacles wrapped around a soccer ball.



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