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Human head transplants’ gory, Frankenstein-esque history
From two-headed Soviet dogs to modern ‘brotech.’
Americans planted entire forests of exploding Australian trees
Plus beaver skulls and other weird things we learned this week.
Rachel Feltman
At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of stories every week. And while a lot of the fun facts we stumble across make it into our articles, there are lots of other weird facts that we just keep around the office. So we figured, why not share those with you? Welcome to The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week.
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