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Claire Cock-Starkey is a writer, editor, and researcher specializing in historical miscellanies and natural history. She worked with Ben Schott on his highly popular sports miscellany, and was series editor for all six editions of Schott's Almanac. She writes regularly for Mental Floss and is the author of Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins, Famous Last Words, and How to Skin a Lion.