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5 Weird Tidbits for the Day

• A woman once built a mosaic from 50,000 bottle corks – In 2024, an Oregon artist created a 15-foot wine bottle portrait using corks, displayed at a vineyard until rain sogged it.

• There’s a shrimp that lives in sea slug skin folds – The commensal shrimp nestles in sea slug creases, scavenging bits while dodging their slimy defenses.

• A town in Bulgaria has a festival for throwing strawberries – In Plovdiv, locals toss strawberries in a summer contest, splattering fields with red, seedy chaos.

• Some spiders use their legs to mimic grass blades – The green lynx spider sways its legs like grass, blending into meadows to ambush unsuspecting bugs.

• A medieval cure for dizziness was wearing a bat’s wing – People tied a dried bat wing to their forehead, believing its “swift swoops” would steady their head—creepy and clueless.

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