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10 of The World’s Strangest Collections

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6. Autographs

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Sounds like a perfectly ordinary thing to collect, does it not? It does until you learn that autograph collector Paul Schmelzer likes to have celebrities sign his name instead of their own! His collection has grown to include over 70 autographs, including those penned by Noam Chomsky and Dan Castellaneta, the guy who does Homer Simpson’s voice.

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