To cure British sailors of their silly, superstitious fead of Fridays, the British government laid the keel of a new ship on a Friday, launched her on a Friday, named her H.M.S.
Friday, and sent her on her first voyage on a Friday. Neither the ship nor her crew was ever seen again.
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The blood vessels in a blue whale are so large that a fully grown trout could swim comfortably through the major arteries and veins.
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The common garden snail, whose Latin name is
Helix aspersa, is both a male and a female.