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Posted on December 22, 2010 by Alex Poole

I’d love to think this happened by accident, but I think it’s more likely that the BBC web team gave it a little nudge… 😉

The article "Boy turns 10 at 10.10 on 10/10/10" is strangely enough at 10th position in most popular list!

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