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The Fiji mermaid was a monkey sewn to a fish

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The legendary aquatic sideshow attraction was quite literally a taxidermy nightmare. Promoters stitched the mummified upper half of a juvenile primate to the tail of a large fish, completely banking on the audience's profound ignorance of basic biology.

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