While staying in England with his friend Jonathan Shipley in 1772, Benjamin Franklin gave Shipley’s daughter an American gray squirrel as a pet. The girl named him Mungo. When Mungo met an untimely demise — eaten by the Shipley family dog — Franklin wrote an elegy for the squirrel. Then he had another squirrel shipped from Philadelphia to England. That squirrel, named Beebee, lived to a ripe old age — at least 6 years.
In 1785, which U.S. Founding Father succeeded Benjamin Franklin as diplomatic minister to France?
A) John Adams
B) Alexander Hamilton
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) Roger Williams
Previous answer: Coprophagy is the unappealing habit of eating poop.
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