national geographic – June 2011 by Eric Friar McDermott
As the forages of their colony’s cste system (see rank and file), media leafcutter ants start out with mandibles as sharp as surgical scalpels.  But over the course of their lives, the repetitive slicing of leaves into small disks dulls their V-shaped …

Black bears typically have two cubs; rarely, one or three. In 2007, in northern New Hampshire , a black bear sow gave birth to five healthy young. There were two or three reports of sows with as many as 4 cubs, but five was, and is, very extraordinary. The photographer …

From Wikipedia:
Origins

A ticket to “Washing the Lions” in London from 1857. This traditional April Fools prank is first recorded in 1698.

In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1392), the “Nun’s Priest’s Tale” is set Syn March bigan thritty dayes and two. Modern scholars believe that there is a copying error in the …

“There are more chickens in the world than people”
Hard to believe
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