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An oyster shell with pearls in it is seen displayed at a restaurant in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. A Lebanese restaurant owner said Wednesday he and his wife were having oysters for lunch when she made a stunning discovery _ a cluster of 26 pearls inside an oyster on her plate.
An oyster shell with pearls in it is seen displayed at a restaurant in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. A Lebanese restaurant owner said Wednesday he and his wife were having oysters for lunch when she made a stunning discovery _ a cluster of 26 pearls inside an oyster on her plate.
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BEIRUT — Lebanese restaurant owner Raymond Salha and his wife were having oysters for lunch when she made a stunning discovery: 26 pearls inside an oyster on her plate.

The find at his Al-Fanar Restaurant in the southern port city of Tyre was a “total surprise,” Salha said Wednesday.

It was one of about 200 oysters they had cooked that day at the restaurant.

As his wife opened the shell, she let out a gasp, Salha recounted.

Although the pearls are not valuable, Salha says their importance is in the sheer number inside a single shell. The Associated Press

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