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A huge iceberg becomes a deadly trap for penguins
An iceberg sealed the penguin colony’s entrance, triggering a 70% survival drop.
Chicago’s rat hole wasn’t made by a rat
Plus a retirement home for penguins and other weird things we learned this week.
Rachel Feltman
At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of stories every week. And while a lot of the fun facts we stumble across make it into our articles, there are lots of other weird facts that we just keep around the office. So we figured, why not share those with you? Welcome to The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week.
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In ancient Arabia, people dined on sharks and stingrays
‘We know that these were not just ordinary proteins, but proteins from the top of the food chain.’
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