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Ten images that show we live an incredibly bizarre world.
A MUDDY AFFAIR: Festival-goers enjoy the mud during the annual Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon Beach in Boryeong, South Korea. The mud, which is believed to have beneficial effects on the skin due to its mineral content, is sourced from mud flats near Boryeong and transported to the beach by truck. Photograph: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images
People in Minions costumes cool off at a riverside scenic zone on a hot day in Lianyuan, Hunan province, China. Photograph: CNS/Yang Huafeng/Reuters
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: A woman receives a chocolate massage in an aromatherapy salon in Prague, Czech Republic. Photograph: David W Cerny/Reuters
MOOO! Relatives play inside a house with a cow which they believe is the family's reborn patriarch in Kratie province, Cambodia. Photograph: Samrang Pring/Reuters
TEA ON WHEELS! Competitors take part in the 'Tea Pursuit' event, in which they have to pour a cup of tea from a teapot while riding a bicycle, in the Chap Olympiad in Bedford Square, London, Britain July 15, 2017. The annual Chap Olympiad event is hosted by The Chap magazine, which claims to be the bible for old-fashioned gentlemen who are against the vulgarity of modern culture and in favour of tweed, smoking a pipe and courtesy to women. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/Reuters
ALL LIT UP: An attendee poses during the final day of Comic Con International in San Diego, California. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters
HO, HO, HO! People dressed as Santa Claus take a canal tour of Copenhagen as they take part in the World Santa Claus Congress, an annual event held every summer at the amusement park Dyrehavsbakken, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Photograph: Scanpix Denmark/Nikolai Linares/Reuters
INKED: Carlos Dehaquiz poses for a photograph during the Expo Tattoo Fair in Medellin, Colombia. Photograph: Fredy Builes/Reuters
MONKEY BUSINESS: A squirrel monkey rests on a tree branch on a hot day at a zoo in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China. Photograph: Stringer/Reuters
FIRE TRUCKER: US President Donald Trump sits on a firefighter truck as he participates in a "Made in America" products showcase at the White House in Washington, DC. Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters