Police detectives have used snapping turtles to help them locate dead bodies.

According to legend, tea originated in China when tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.

Each year, sixteen million gallons of oil run off pavement into streams, rivers and eventually oceans in the United States. This is more oil than was spilled by the Exxon Valdez.

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