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Lobster used to be considered "Cockroaches of the sea". It was fed to prisoners and apprentices, and was used as fish bait.
 
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Tony Phoenix-Morrison runs marathons with a refrigerator strapped to his back to raise funds for the Bobby Robson Foundation.
 

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During the Cold War, the USSR thought the heavily trafficked building in the center of the courtyard of the pentagon was a top-secret meeting room and pointed nukes at it.

It was a hotdog stand.
 

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There's a thunderstorm called Hector forming almost every afternoon on the Tiwi Islands from September to March.
 

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A Dutch crime writer wrote a pretty suspicious book about seven ways to kill your spouse a year after his wife disappeared. He became a celebrity and spent the next decade hinting - in print and on TV - that he had killed her.

It turned out he actually killed her.
 
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Ever seen crocodiles sitting with an open mouth on river banks? Curious? Its to loose heat. Crocodiles sweat through their mouth!
 

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In the margins of medieval manuscripts, there's a recurring scene: knights fighting against snails. The knights usually look worried, shocked or stunned by their opponent.
 
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Penguins have backward facing fleshy spines that line the inside of their mouths. These help them guide their fishy meals down their throat.
 
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The mother jackal changes their den site every 2 weeks to protect their cubs from probing predators.
 

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