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141A jeweled frog from around 1820 turns precious metal into a brief mechanical animal.
142A quadruped learned a real obstacle course from scenes that had never existed outside a simulator.
143Some cockatoos carried two different tools together before either one could be used.
144Behind a curtain of water in western New York, fractured shale supplies a flame with natural gas.
145After the visitors leave a Baroque library in Portugal, two bat colonies emerge among sixty thousand old books.
146A wolf spider's pressure-operated legs still formed a working gripper after the animal died.
147A surface smaller than a grain of coarse salt replaced the stack of curved lenses in a camera.
148A wild orangutan treated one injury with a plant already used in traditional medicine.
149Canada's coin rule is a ceiling on legal-tender status, not a police barrier around a jar of change.
150Arctic winter changes more than the light around a reindeer; it changes the reflective tissue inside the animal's eyes.
The Weird Please editorial desk collects true stories about curious inventions, peculiar history, strange science, and the gloriously unexpected.
