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Correct Answer: Yul Brynner

Yul Brynner was a Russian-born American actor of stage and film. He was best known for his portrayal of Mongkut, king of Siam, in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor for the film version; he also played the role more than 4,500 times on stage. He is also remembered as Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille film The Ten Commandments, General Bounine in Anastasia, and Chris Adams in The Magnificent Seven. Brynner was noted for his distinctive voice and for his shaven head, which he maintained as a personal trademark long after adopting it for his initial role in The King and I.

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A Hummingbird's Tongue Is So Long It Wraps All the Way Around It's Brain

When a hummingbird is not using it's tongue, it wraps under the jaw, behind and then over the head. The very long tongue stays wrapped around the hummingbird's skull on a special structure called the hyoid apparatus, and the middle part is stretchy so it can extend even further.

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