The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called "Hindi" ("from India"). In India, it's called "Peru." In Arabic, the bird is called "Greek chicken"; in Greek it's called "French chicken"; and in French it's called "Indian chicken." The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
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In Korea, there's a man named Lee Jin-gyu who fell in love and married his life-sized Japanese body pillow (called a "dakimakura").
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