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Ida and Isidor Straus died after she gave up her spot in a lifeboat to stay with him on the sinking Titanic in 1912. Their great-great-granddaughter Wendy Rush is married to Stockton Rush, the founder of OceanGate and pilot of its missing submersible. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption

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Recent research sequenced 48 bird species, including (from left) the budgerigar, the barn owl and the American flamingo. (Left and center)iStock; (Right) Chris Minerva/Ocean/Corbis hide caption

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Birds Of A Feather Aren't Necessarily Related

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