Man-Eating Deer, History’s Top Counterfeiters, a 12-Foot-Tall Bird

The weirdest things we learned this week range from an absolutely enormous bird from New Zealand to deer with a taste for human flesh. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"?

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