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Allied officials came up with some strange strategies to win World War II. Operation Fantasia planned to use glow-in-the-dark foxes to spook Japanese forces into defeat.
A litter of endangered critters were born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, last Saturday.
Irish moss, found in abundance in Scituate, Massachusetts, is not as exotic as it sounds. It is seaweed, and it's probably in some of the food you eat daily.
How do you celebrate an anniversary? Get all dressed up, of course. And that's just what the famous Hope Diamond is doing.
President Joe Biden recently presented 19 people with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. One of the 19 recipients of the Medal of Freedom stood out to us as par