A couple of these, I doubt. For example, #16, sure, uh huh. But this is still a fun list. I saw the link at Kill Zone Blog, by the way. Some I’ve known forever, including the fact — this doesn’t strike me as weird — that flamingos are pink because of their diet. In zoos, flamingos are kept pink by adding carrot juice to their food, or they’d turn whitish.

I think my favorite is the short-lived pineapple burger McDonald’s once apparently offered.

For weird animals, you can’t do better than Gary Meaney’s book. Here’s his profile on Quora. He’s pretty amazing — he wrote tons of posts as a teenager and published that book when he was eighteen, I think, and it’s enormously fun. Here’s an especially fun post about little cat species that will give you an idea of his style, if you would care to click through.

For more weird stuff, have you ever had a chance to glance through Atlas Obscura?

Here are natural wonders, like the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can sit and drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M. C. Escher–like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby-Jumping Festival in Spain—and no, it’s not the babies doing the jumping, but masked men dressed as devils who vault over rows of squirming infants.

Lots of weird stuff in the world. Here’s a baobab. You can imagine one being short, broad, hollow, and turned into a destination.

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