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Man swims 62 miles around Martha’s Vineyard to press for protections for sharks
(www.theguardian.com)
More people die from housecats every year than sharks
And that's like 3-5 purr year
Cat scratch fever! And I mean Bartonella henselae, not the Ted Nugent song or the 2011 film by Lisa Duva.
I’m glad he didn’t get eaten by sharks but it would have been really funny if he got eaten by sharks. It’s a conundrum.
One of the most dangerous animals in America is the cow. And that's not even counting the heart disease.