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303: No Such Thing As Suckling's Column

No Such Thing As A Fish

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The Imports of the Pacific Islands

Maui in the mythology is a skinny character, but they made him quite large. In America each year, there are 250 million turkeys eaten. They all get sent to the Pacific Islands and now it's a massive part of their diet. The average Samoan was eating 44 pounds of turkey tails a year - three times as much as the average American eatsTurkey every year. New Zealand exports very fatty bit of cheap food called flaps that don't have teeth on them anymore. Pocahontas' male protagonist John Smith had no genitals throughout the whole movie. But one historian has said that he could be a total fiction. So if you couldn't make it with Pocahont

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