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6 Animals That Eat Their Mates

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10 Great Sports Rivalries

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Nostradamus and His Prophecies

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7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances

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Wilhelm Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist