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Claire Maldarelli, Eleanor Cummins, and Rachel Feltman
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The weirdest things we learned this week: Rats with fetishes and America's first banana
By Claire Maldarelli, Eleanor Cummins, and Rachel Feltman / Apr 24, 2019
