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433: No Such Thing As A Golden Chicken

No Such Thing As A Fish

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The Giant Claw

Archimedes invented a giant claw that could lift enemy ships clean out of the water. It was so successful that roman sol ers began to be scared of any piece of rope hanging from the city walls. The earliest we have for this particular claw thing is by some one called polybius, who was writing only about 50 years after archimedes died. And you can join those people and sign up for a free 14 day trial by going to shopfy dot o dot u k, slash fish.

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