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Vivek Murthy

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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All Sturgeon and Whales, Ladies and Gentlemen.

Sturgeon was once so abundant in the Hudson River during the early years of this country that it got what nickname? Water squirrels. During World War II, the Germans fed explosives to sturgeon off the British coast so they blow up near the shore. Russian officials hired a sniffer cat to catch smuggled sturgeon and he became the star of his own TV show,. Vladimir Putin awarded him a medal made out of tuna or members of the Russian mafia put out a hit on him. Mandy Moore: The big worthy is the surgeon general of the United States.

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