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Revealed: The surprising reason why scientists named Dolly the Sheep after Dolly Parton

Daily Mail 1 min read 10 hours ago

Musician, actress, philanthropist - Dolly Parton had done it all.
But perhaps her most unusual accolade was having the world's first cloned mammal named after her.
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