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INSECT DNA is in your teacup! A study published in Biology

Letters found tiny traces of bee, caterpilla­r and spider genetic coding on tea plants ahead of harvesting, packaging and production.

PRESIDENT William McKinley’s second term ended abruptly when he was shot twice by a deranged anarchist while standing in line at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition. He died eight days later.

TENNESSEE is the birthplace of the tow truck. Ernest Holmes Sr. got the idea to automate a towing process in 1916 after helping a friend pull his car out of a river.

Three years later he completed his invention!

HISTORY’S biggest scoop of ice cream stood five-foot-six, weighed 3,010 pounds and was six feet, two inches wide. The strawberry colossus was created in Wisconsin for Kemps Dairy’s 100th anniversar­y in 2014.

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