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Paul the octopus

Hello room 17. I am sure that you have all heard of Paul the octopus. Paul was born in England but now he lives in Germany. He predicts who will win a soccer match and 9/10 times he has got it right. Two separate plastic boxes, each with food inside, were presented to Paul. Each box had one of the two playing team’s flags on it. He would choose his food from the team that he thought was going to win. He ate the mussel in Spain’s box when it was the f.i.f.a world cup leaving out the Netherlands. Paul was believed to have been hatched from an egg at the Sea Life Centre in Weymouth, England, then moved to a tank at one of the chain's centres in Oberhausen, Germany. Some people claimed that Paul the Octopus had actually been caught in April 2010, by Verena Bartsch, off the island of Elba.

His name was taken from the title of a poem by the German children's writer Boy Lornsen and its called Der Tintenfisch Paul Oktopus.

Some other animals tried, but did not do so well in predicting the champions of the world cup.

Here is a song about paul.