Science Fact
Archeologists who dig up humans and animals sometimes wonder if the humans ate the animals nearby. But to find, out they’d need to know what it looks like when a person eats, say, a whole rodent and it comes out the other end. How to know for sure? Well, you need to eat a whole shrew. Without chewing. For science. Of course. Yes, a scientist did that and it won the 2013 Ig Nobel prize. And they found just HOW much of a shrew skeleton our bodies can take care of. It’s about 80{9f43b4361d9a125bc126dd2a2d1949be02545ec69880430bc4fed2272fd72da3}. Go us!
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