<p>A busy company owner for the early part of his life, Seiichi Sano began anew at 80 by climbing Mt Fuji. Apparently not challenged enough by Japan&rsquo;s highest peak, he almost immediately took up surfing. Sano turns 90 later this year, and after being recognised by Guinness World Records as the oldest male to surf, he&rsquo;s ready for other tests.</p>
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<p>&ldquo;Maybe I&rsquo;ll try bouldering,&rdquo; he said, suggesting he might do it first in a gym. &ldquo;Outside it might be a bit dangerous.&rdquo; He ruled out bungee-jumping. &ldquo;Too scary,&rdquo; he said. Or maybe he&rsquo;ll just stick with what he knows. &ldquo;I think it would be interesting to try to surf until I&rsquo;m 100,&rdquo; Sano said. &ldquo;I think I take better care of myself when I have goals like this.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Sano lives about 20 minutes from Yokohama and gets out most weekends on the black-sand beach near Enoshima, the small island that hosted sailing for the recent Tokyo Olympics, and was the harbour for the 1964 Games. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t consider myself an old man,&rdquo; he said in his wet suit, board standing alongside. &ldquo;I have never thought of myself as an old person. I always feel that I can still move forward. I can still do it. I can still enjoy it.&rdquo; Sano still runs a business that supplies timber to construction companies, and still works 9-to-5 at the job. The surfing is just a stress reliever. &ldquo;People often say that surfing is life, itself,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If I describe it in one word, I think it really applies to me right now.&rdquo;</p>
<h2>This is no child&rsquo;s play</h2>
<p><strong>Would you want a doll that&rsquo;s made with real human hair and eyes?</strong></p>
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<p>Nottingham&rsquo;s Haunted Museum is home to many macabre and fear-inducing attractions, but few as disturbing as George, a doll dating back to 1930s Texas and reportedly made using a dead person&rsquo;s eyes and hair. Marrie Wesson, who founded the Haunted Museum of Nottingham, brought along a couple of her most disturbing exhibits to BBC&rsquo;s popular TV Show Bargain Hunt, one of which was George. He comes from a time when people made such dolls in memory of their loved ones, only in his case, the person who made him used the loved one&rsquo;s actual hair and their glass eyes. &ldquo;He came to us from Texas and, back in the day, they would make things like George in memory of passed loved ones,&rdquo; Wesson said.</p>
<h2>An expensive vice</h2>
<p>A Japanese civil servant in Osaka was recently forced to return 1.44 million yen (`9 lakhs) of his salary after being found guilty of smoking during work hours more than 4,500 times in 14 years. The 61-year-old employee who was found to have smoked a total of 4,512 times in the past 14 and a half years while he was at work.</p>
<h2>Zebra on the loose!</h2>
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<p>An escaped zebra galloped for hours in the busy streets of Seoul before emergency workers tranquilized the animal and brought it back to a zoo. The zoo is investigating how the zebra managed to escape. There were no immediate reports of injuries.</p>
<h2>Out of this world</h2>
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<p>French luxury accessory brand Coperni recently unveiled a limited-edition &ldquo;meteorite&rdquo; handbag that is hand-carved from a meteorite that fell on Earth thousands of years ago. It costs $40,000 euros (`35 lakhs). The bag supposedly contains a piece of meteorite.</p>
<h2>A truly mammoth meatball</h2>
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<p>Australian company Vow makes mammoth meatball using actual mammoth DNA. The giant meatball was made of lab-grown cultured meat using the genetic sequence from the long-extinct pachyderm. The innovation was meant to fire up public debate. Cultivated meat &mdash; also called cultured or cell-based meat &mdash; is made from animal cells. Livestock doesn&rsquo;t need to be killed to produce it, which is better for the animals and the environment.</p>
<h2>She&rsquo;s having a blast</h2>
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<p>Perla Tijerina is trying to set a world record by living on Pico de Orizaba, the highest peak in Mexico and the tallest volcano in North America. The 31-year-old will live 18,620 feet above sea level for 32 days &mdash; a feat she&rsquo;s excited to accomplish. &ldquo;I like to test my mental strength,&rdquo; she said. Tijerina is working through the struggles of living on a volcano such as violent winds, electrical storms, hypothermia and mountain sickness. &ldquo;I am never alone, I have too many books to read, and I meditate&rdquo;.</p>

Scaling Mt. Fuji wasn’t enough for 90-year-old Seiichi Sanoi, who now wants to be a pro surfer

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