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The Log Bizarre Facts

State/National/World News & Departments 

The Green Flash Isn’t Just a Fictional Character

Katherine M. ClementsMarch 23, 2023

This fact comes to you just in time for St. Patrick’s Day— the phenomenon of the green flash. Not to

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State/National/World News & Departments 

Bizarre Facts: The Unsolved Mystery of the MV Lyubov Orlova

Katherine M. ClementsFebruary 20, 2023

After breaking free from a towing line on its final journey to a scrap yard, the MV Lyubov Orlova, a Russian

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State/National/World News & Departments 

Bizarre Facts: Strange Bone Washes Ashore in San Francisco

Katherine M. ClementsFebruary 6, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO— Shorelines are often littered with driftwood and other trash and treasures that wash ashore. But one item caught

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Local News & Departments 

Bizarre Facts: Sheephead Can Change Sex When Necessary.

Katherine M. ClementsJanuary 8, 2023

California Sheephead fish are a funny-looking species. The males rock a white chin, large protruding canine teeth, and a very

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Local News & Departments 

Bizarre Facts: Are you Fishing or Angling?

Katherine M. ClementsDecember 9, 2022

Are anglers and fishermen the same thing? It depends on who you ask, but technically the answer is no; they

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State/National/World News & Departments 

Bizarre Facts: What Happened to the Carroll A. Deering

Katherine M. ClementsNovember 25, 2022

On January 31, 1921, the five-masted commercial schooner Carroll A. Deering was found wrecked on Diamond Shoals off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. At the

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State/National/World News & Departments 

Bizarre Facts: What happened to the Mary Celeste

Katherine M. ClementsNovember 13, 2022

The story of the Mary Celeste, an American-registered merchant brigantine, began on Nov. 7, 1872, when the 282-ton brigantine set sail

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State/National/World News & Departments 

Salinity Staircases in the Arctic Ocean

Katherine M. ClementsNovember 2, 2022

Researchers at the University of Toronto have determined the mechanism responsible for the formation of temperature and salinity “staircases” in

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State/National/World News & Departments 

Bizarre Facts: Researchers find possible megalodon tooth

Jordan B. Darling October 16, 2022

On Oct. 5, researchers with the Exploration Vessel Nautilus team found a massive tooth that they believe could be linked

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State/National/World News & Departments 

Bizarre Facts: A Great White Shark Disappears Leaving Researchers Baffled

Jordan B. Darling October 1, 2022

After a great white shark was tagged by a research team in the southern hemisphere, it disappeared without a trace

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