Hippo Meat Nearly Became An American Food Staple
Proponents lovingly referred to them as lake bacon.
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Proponents lovingly referred to them as lake bacon.
The strange pelt showed up on a zoologist’s office in 1799.
An ideal arowana swims with confidence and is neither too thin nor too fat.
A young boy named Robert Eugene “Gene” Otto was gifted the doll in 1906.
Similar to spiders, the larvae weave webs from the cave’s ceilings that are stippled with drops of mucus.
Margaret Hamilton was responsible for the code that took us to the Moon!
The most popular locations to scatter ashes include the Pirates of the Caribbean ride and the Haunted Mansion.
“El Fusilado” survived a ten-man firing squad, including a point-blank coup de grace.
Thousands want to drink the red sewage juice found inside an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus.