On This Day in Weird, January 24...
A brief one today. On this date in 1948 the Brazilian
newspaper Diario de Pernambuco ran the attached photograph, submitted by
local bank manager Senhor de Oliveria. According to him, it depicts a sucuriju
grande found and killed on a riverbank, then towed out into the river. Before
it was dumped, Oliveria allegedly measured it, reporting its length as 131
feet. He estimated that the snake weighed more than five tons.
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