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In Iran, 105 year old Ismael Bahrami who was blind and deaf staggered into court with his two sons, aged 60 and 70, and told the officials that he wanted a divorce from his 100 year old wife because the magic in their marriage had gone.
The couple had been happily married since 1919 but Ismael was adamant that it was all over.
"She does not heed my command anymore," he told the judge, "so I have to get rid of her!"


In Mobberley, Cheshire, England, 100 year old Dr. John Wilkinson began having an affair with his carer, Celia Nuttall. If that wasn't enough of a blow to his wife of 33 years, Marion, he packed his bags and moved in with his new lover to a £200,000 house on the other side of the road!



In 1995 in France, a bride was arrested at her wedding reception when she stabbed her husband with the knife they had just used to cut their wedding cake.



In Wisconsin, USA, in 1984, 103 year old Harry Stevens married his cousin 84 year old Thelma Lucas at their retirement home.



In 1983 a man was sentenced to 34 years in prison after it was found he had notched up 104 bigamous marriages between 1949 and 1981 in 15 countries.
The man used so many aliases that authorities never found out who to charge him as.



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In Ireland, during the 1920's, Albert Muldoon, who was best man at his friend's wedding, accidentally got married to the bride when he stood on his left of the groom instead of on his right.
When the priest saw Muldoon in this position he addressed all the questions to Muldoon, who duly answered all of them.
The slip up was only discovered when the real groom demanded to sign the register as well. A second ceremony was swiftly arranged.

In Prague, Czechoslovakia, housewife, Vera Czermak, was so distraught at her husband having an affair that she threw herself out of the window of her third floor apartment landing on her husband and killing him instantly.
She survived, however, after his body cushioned her fall.

The country with largest percentage of female heads per household is Botswana.

The women of one South Pacific tribe are obliged to marry at birth.

In Fiji, New Guinea, the widows of the recently departed husbands would be strangled or buried alive so that they could join them in the afterlife.

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