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    • 1. One method of repopulating lakes involves dropping thousands of fish from airplanes! 2. Cibophobia is the fear of food. 3. Eating fatty fish like salmon can help your hair grow.

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How Ripley’s Came To Acquire A Mammoth Nipple

Mammoth Nipple

That Time A Scientist Dug Secret Tunnels Under D.C. For Exercise

Upside-down Lightning In Oklahoma Most Powerful Ever Recorded

Upside-down Lightning

Astronomers Plan To Go Magnet Fishing For Meteorite

Meteorite

The Appalachian Apple Hunter Who Saved 1,200 Lost Varieties

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Firefly Forest

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Scientists Grow Mouse Embryos Without Sperm Or Eggs

Mouse Cross Section
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CARTOON 05-04-2021

Mammoth molars were the size of a carton of milk!

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1. Hide & Go Seek! With just one specimen collected in the 1840s and then going unseen for 170 years, the black-browed babbler was finally rediscovered in Indonesia in October 2020. 2. Mammoth molars were the size of a carton of milk! 3. Some scorpions will break off part of their tails as a defense mechanism. However, this move also removes their anus, causing them to slowly die after months of constipation!
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CARTOON 08-18-2022

1. Over the course of 10 seasons, the six main characters of "Friends" collectively drink more than 1,000 cups of coffee. 2. Japanese toilet brand TOTO developed a motorcycle in 2012 that runs on fuel made from animal poop! 3. In the 17th-century Ottoman Empire, drinking coffee was punishable by death!

CARTOON 08-17-2022

1. Scientists are working on fungi-based computers! 2. The skulls of prehistoric elephantlike creatures may have spurred the creation of the cyclops myth. 3. There are more than 1.2 billion insects for every human on earth!

CARTOON 08-16-2022

1. One method of repopulating lakes involves dropping thousands of fish from airplanes! 2. Cibophobia is the fear of food. 3. Eating fatty fish like salmon can help your hair grow.

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