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Out There: The wild, wacky world of waterfowl

By Keith "Catfish" Sutton
Special to ESPNOutdoors.com

Monday, December 4, 2006

My mind is a trash basket. All my life, I've enjoyed prowling the back alleys of knowledge in search of trivial bits of information others might discard as worthless. Robert Ripley caused my affliction. When I was a kid, I couldn't wait to get one of his "Believe It or Not!" books, from which I could learn amazing things like how "the tail of the porcupine was used by the Crow Indians as a comb" and how a hen in the Marianas "sat on a live hand grenade for 26 days." Later I started saving scr ...

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