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Fremont, California knife collector goes for world record

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Fremont, California knife collector goes for world record

He couldn’t seem to get enough of them over the decades and now the Fremont resident is hoping to set a world record for having the largest collection of knives ever amassed by any one person. His passion for knives began when he was a 5-year-old in Cuquío, a town in central-western Mexico, suffering from a glandular infection called adenoiditis. The condition had to be treated with repeated injections of antibiotics from a large syringe, which he naturally feared. “My uncle told me, ‘Look, you’re going to be a little man, and if you don’t cry, I’m going to give you this knife,” Mercado...

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