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It took the photographer Donald Weber more than five years to make his way inside a Ukrainian police interrogation room. He photographed police interrogations in the former Soviet republic, where rights groups say the vast majority of convictions are based on confessions.
Meet Nils Olav, a King Penguin living in in the Edinburgh Zoo. He also happens to be a knight and the Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian King’s Guard. Making him Colonel-in-Chief Sir Nils Olav the penguin.
In 1731, King Frederick I of Sweden received a lion skin as a gift from the Bey of Algiers. The taxidermist tasked with mounting it had never seen a lion in real life, and only had a vague idea of what one was supposed to look like. The resulting monstrosity remains on display at Gripsholm Castle for all to see.
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