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A personal platypus: the strange tale of Winston Churchill’s ‘magnificently idiotic’ wartime request
theguardian.com
A personal platypus: the strange tale of Winston Churchill’s ‘magnificently idiotic’ wartime request
The wartime British PM was due to receive a monotreme named after him but it mysteriously died en route. German submarines were blamed – but was that the truth?
