Echidnas have a four-headed penis, though only two heads are put to use at a time
The echidna has quite a neat trick
To manage its four-headed prick
There’s a septum inside
Which can be applied
To pump up two ends, take your pick
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A retired nun has admitted to embezzling $835,000 from a Catholic school in California to fund her gambling habit
In Torrance an elderly nun
Thought gambling looked like good fun
So she built up a stash
Of ill-gotten cash
Which isn’t how things should be done
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appears to have lost weight after years of substantial gain
In Pyongyang the great leader Kim
Has recently started to slim
So now some debate
If this loss of weight
Means something has gone wrong with him
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People whose sleep pattern goes against their natural body clock are more likely to have depression and lower levels of wellbeing, experts say
Boffins say people who keep
A habit of regular sleep
And leave the bed early
Don’t tend to be surly
And are far less likely to weep
Alamy
SpaceX has launched a supply mission bound for the International Space Station which includes carrying 20,000 tardigrades, better known as water bears
There’s a rocket in orbit and it
Contains several samples of spit
And also onboard
Is a tardigrade horde
I don’t know how they made it all fit
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Local authorities will be asked to put extra bins and toilets on city streets
It’s long been considered a sin
Not to put your rubbish in the bin
Now our rulers declare
That they’ll give us somewhere
To throw all our empty cans in
Chickens for sale at a market in Huai an, Jiangsu province in China
In China they’ve just found a new
Human case of a bird flu
But it didn’t cause harm
There’s no need for alarm
And right now I hope that that’s true
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Experimental wearable technology is now available for cows to catch ‘methane burps’
Some boffins believe we should ask
The farmers to take on the task
Of saving methane
Which would, they explain
Be trapped if each cow wears a mask
Bloomberg
Most people in the UK cannot name all parts of the vulva, according to new research
Most Britons are struggling to hunt
For the words for the bits on the front
Of a lady, downstairs
Behind all those hairs
But I reckon I could take a punt
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter experienced difficulties during its sixth Martian flght but landed safely
Nobody wants to get stressed
While conducting a Martian flight test
And though NASA’s chopper
Almost came a cropper
It worked out, in the end, for the best
NASA