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Inflatable ducks, gravy wrestling, mammoth meatball and more: Oddest images of 2023

The most offbeat and unusual photos of the year

Published: December 07, 2023 17:15 Compiled by Nathaniel Lacsina, Senior Web Editor

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One of the inflatable yellow ducks created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman is seen deflated at Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong, China June 10, 2023. Image Credit: REUTERS

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Competitors take part in the World Gravy Wrestling Championships at the Rose 'N' Bowl pub in Stacksteads, Britain, August 28, 2023. Image Credit: Reuters

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Fireflies light up inside a forest at Pitrufquen area near Temuco, Chile, January 19, 2023. Image Credit: Reuters

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A motorcycle enthusiast celebrates Halloween wearing a mask as seen in the movie “Ghost Rider”, in Valparaiso Chile October 31, 2023. Image Credit: AFP

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A meatball made from flesh cultivated using the DNA of an extinct woolly mammoth is presented at NEMO Science Museum created by a cultured meat company, in Amsterdam, Netherlands March 28, 2023. Image Credit: Reuters

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A member of the teamLab digital art group poses in an installation in preparation for the reopening of their Borderless museum in February at the Azabudai Hills complex in Tokyo, Japan, November 17, 2023. Image Credit: Reuters

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A woman dressed as a zombie looks on during the annual Zombie Walk in Mexico City, Mexico October 21, 2023. Image Credit: Reuters

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Russian celebrity and Barbie doll collector Tatiana Tuzova poses in the apartment housing part of her collection of 12,000 dolls, in Krasnogorsk outside Moscow, Russia August 16, 2023. Image Credit: Reuters

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A reveler plays in tomato pulp during the annual "La Tomatina" food fight festival in Bunol, Spain August 30, 2023. Image Credit: Reuters

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Fairgoers take a yoga class with miniature horses at the Livestock Pavilion at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. August 13, 2023. Image Credit: REUTERS

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The face of Argentine football star Lionel Messi is depicted in a corn field sown with a special algorithm to plant seeds in a certain pattern to create a huge visual image when the corn plants grow, in Los Condores, on the outskirts of Cordoba, Argentina January 15, 2023. Image Credit: Reuters

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A visitor walks through a part of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's installation "You, Me and The Balloons" during a preview ahead of the start of the Manchester International Festival in Manchester, Britain, June 29, 2023. Image Credit: Reuters

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