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Just So You Know

Posted in History, Oddities, Society by Greg Ross on October 13th, 2009

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If you catch a sturgeon in the United Kingdom, it belongs to the queen.

It’s part of her royal prerogative — the sturgeon’s excellence makes it a “royal fish.”

The same goes for whales: The king gets the head and the queen the tail. Sorry.