Sunday, 16 February 2014

TODAY IN WEIRD



On This Day in Weird, February 16...

600: Pope Gregory I declares "God bless you" the proper Christian response to a sneeze. Gesundheit ist verboten!

1999: Fishermen find a giant squid's beak in the stomach of a sleeper shark netted off the Kerguelen Islands, in the southern Polar Frontal Zone, between 550 and 870 meters.

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