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How a Stuffed Animal Named Billy Possum Tried—and Failed—to Replace the Teddy Bear as America's National ToyIf ‘Teddy Bear,’ why not ‘Billy Possum’?” That was the question posed by a political cartoon in the January 10, 1909, issue of the Atlanta Constitution. Inspired by a highly anticipated “possums and ...
Somehow we’re on yet another Monday, friends. This is another first -- like the quirky platypus, I never thought to add an ...
The California Highway Patrol entered into an "extremely slow-speed pursuit" when an opossum was found trying to cross the ...
But it was the much less dramatic, tame possum that would eventually become a citywide sensation. William Voiles said that he adopted the opossum as a palm-sized baby that had been orphaned when ...
WITH THIS NOTE, UPON HER ARRIVAL, OPOSSUM BROUGHT IN DUE TO HAVING EATEN AN ENTIRE COSTCO CHOCOLATE CAKE. THE POSSUM STORY IS REALLY RELATABLE. LIKE, WHO DOESN’T WANT TO EAT A WHOLE CHOCOLATE CAKE?
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