Believe it or leave it: strange stories

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1.A muteyoung man who was found wandering on a southern English beach, and who was reported to be a virtuos piano player, had media around the world fascinated for months. He was later found to be a German fame-seeker -- and it turned out he didn't play the piano all that well either. 2.The Virgin Atlantic airline said it was setting up a frequent fliers' club called "Flying Paws." Initial membership was four dogs and a cat; humans need not apply 3.After a row with his wife about money, a well-off Israeli man opened the family safe, took out the equivalent of 680,000 dollars in banknotes and burned it to ashes on the front lawn. 4.Educational authorities in New South Wales, Australia, protested when the state board of studies proposed making surfing into a high-school diploma subject. 5.Japanese woman who paid a contract killer the equivalent of 136,000 dollars to murder her lover's pregnant wife went to the police to complain when he failed to do the job. 6.The German interior ministry said that people being snapped for ID photographs should no longer smile because it messed up their biometric recognition technology.