The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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In November 2013, a woman in Florida named Linda Ducharme married a ferris wheel.
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In 1992, 29,000 rubber ducks washed off a ship. They were found thousands of miles away 8 years later.
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