This week I learned worms can smell danger, and more
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- Worms learn to smell danger (Medical Express)
- Stress might be just as unhealthy as junk food to digestive system (Eureka Alert)
- Fish depression is not a joke (The New York Times)
- The murderer who helped make the Oxford English Dictionary (Mental Floss)
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