This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been given to the U.N. World Food Programme for its efforts to fight hunger and to prevent the use of starvation as a weapon of war.
But did you know that the World Food Programme has a canine mascot named Foxtrot?
He was all over Instagram on Friday expressing his excitement about snagging a Nobel. “Woweee,” he said capturing the magnitude of the award with a brevity rare among winners in the science categories. His reaction was also more succinct than the head of the World Food Programme, David Beasley, who said, “Holy mackerel. It’s the first time in my life I’ve been without words.”
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