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An eccentric sand dollar

  • ... that certain species of sand dollar (pictured) clone themselves to better escape some predators?
  • ... that when Dick Clark was running for the U.S. Senate, he walked 1,300 miles across Iowa to raise awareness of his campaign?
  • ... that a 16th century text on syphilis contains the first documented description on how to use a condom?
  • ... that before becoming Moldova's first female president, Maia Sandu worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C.?
  • ... that Japan is called "Nihon" or "Nippon" in Japanese which means "the origin of the Sun"?
  • ... that the Mud March was an attempt by Union Army Major General Ambrose Burnside to attack Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia?
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