Discovered: Dolphins use unique whistles to call for each other; smoking gives mice Alzheimer's; 80 percent of all farm fertilizer goes toward meat production; golden moles are size queens.
In our very first Hurricane Sandy rodent report, we have some good news for equal opportunity rodent haters, some better news for those who get chills thinking of baby rats, and some downright bad news for anyone that enjoys cancer breakthroughs in modern medicine.
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Last January's very viral, very gross story about a lawsuit filed by a man who claimed he'd found a mouse in his can of Mountain Dew has finally come to a close, with the defendant, Ronald Ball, reaching some undisclosed settlement with Pepsi.
Pepsi Co., facing a lawsuit from a man who claims to have found a mouse in his Mountain Dew can, has an especially creative, if disgusting, defense: their soda would have dissolved a dead mouse before the man could have found it.
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