The driest place on earth is Calama, in the Atacama Desert in Chile.

The Pacific island of Tonga once issued a stamp that was banana shaped.

Airport security agents at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts caught a passenger trying to sneak a severed seal head onto a plane inside a cooler. The man said he was a biology professor and had found the dead animal on the beach.

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