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In Sundarbans in West Bengal, fishermen and bushmen originally created masks made to look like faces to wear on the back of their heads because tigers always attack from behind. This worked for a short time, but the tigers quickly caught on to the ruse
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“Burying beetles are true to their name—they bury the carcasses of small vertebrates such as birds and rodents as a food source for their larvae.”
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Biggy Pop is Iggy Pop’s Moluccan Cockatoo and the founding Patron of Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital.
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“The Digesting Duck is considered Jacques de Vaucanson’s (1709-17820 masterpiece. It had over 400 moving parts in each wing alone, and could flap its wings, drink water, seemingly digest grain, and seemingly defecate.”
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“An early mention of soap comes in Roman scholar Pliny the Elder’s book “Naturalis Historia” from A.D. 77. He described soap as a pomade made of tallow and ashes that the Gauls, particularly the men, applied to their hair to give it “a reddish tint.””
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Little Miss Sunshine recognises that we can’t all be “winners”, and reminds us that we shouldn’t even want to be if that means measuring ourselves against bullshit standards of success.”
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“Arndt was inspired to write ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ by a speech Arnold Schwarzenegger gave to high school students, where he said, “If there’s one thing in this world I hate, it’s losers. I despise them.” Arndt instead celebrates the underdog…
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