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outsider art The Scare-Fox (1910) was a mechanical device created to scare foxes away from pheasants, and it looks like a fantastic piece of folk art Popkin
animal rescues Watch these newborn baby bobtail skinks lapping up some tasty vittles for their very first meal Jennifer Sandlin
1970s "Pickled People" were heads made out of stuffed panty hose and smushed into jars, and people in the 1970s bought them for fun Jennifer Sandlin
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