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Sharks often go for weeks or months without food then gorge themselves in a feeding frenzy. Skateboards were first made by kids in the 1930s but ignored by manufacturers until 1958.
Sloths can starve to death on full stomachs because their digestion is so slow.
Santa Claus is based on St Nicholas, the patron saint of pawnbrokers.
Two-toed sloths actually have three toes. Unmarried women were once used to spin cloth, hence the term 'spinsters'.
Scuttle flies will dig a metre into the ground to reach corpses. Stone age men stood 2 cm taller than modern men.
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