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Today I learned about the Mobile Bay Jubilee, a recurring natural phenomenon found in only one spot on the whole world. Roughly once a year, thousands of crab, shrimp, eels and fish will leave deeper waters to swarm onto the shallower coastal waters, due to oxygen suffocation

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