The fat that comes from sheep, which is called tallow, can also be used to produce soap and candles.

The U.S. paid Russia $7.2 million for Alaska in 1867.

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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