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Grandpa Pudding Brains goes chasing waterfalls
Grandpa Pudding Brains has solved one of America's great hidden problems: the 22 waterfalls, most of which apparently had not worked for 50 years. This guy really loves water features.… READ THE REST
A beetle that hijacks wasps, then impersonates them by smell
Metoecus paradoxus is a beetle that parasitizes wasp nests. In autumn the female lays her eggs in rotting wood. When an egg hatches, the larva — a hook-legged form called… READ THE REST
The Vietnamese monk who ate only coconuts and built a Coconut Kingdom
Nguyễn Thành Nam studied chemistry in France, returned to Vietnam, and, in 1963, founded a religion centered on the coconut. Followers called him the Coconut Monk, or "His Coconutship." He reportedly… READ THE REST
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