All you wanted to know about Octopus Paul

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Paul was a normal octopus when in England. He made no predictions while at the Weymouth Sea Life Park.

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Paul seems to have gotten better with age. His prediction record at this year's FIFA World Cup is 100% accurate. During the 2008 European Cup he had correctly predicted the outcome of 80% of Germany's games. He got the finals wrong too, predicting a Germany win – Spain won.

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Till Friday Paul made predictions only about Germany games. This was the first time he predicted a game which would not feature Germany – the World Cup final between Spain and the Netherlands that the Octopus predicts Spain will win.

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Modus Operandi: An aquarium worker lowers two plastic boxes into his tank. Each has the flag of the two teams playing a match. Both boxes have a mussel each. The box Paul picks a mussel from to eat is the team he says will win.

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Paul has been a a popular figure on social networking sites as well including Twitter where he has been trending topic of late.