A renowned explorer claimed he discovered a lost tropical island in the freezing waters of the Arctic Circle. He brought back a coconut as proof. Detective Croft examined the coconut, declared the explorer a fraud, and kicked him out of the explorers' club. What gave the explorer away?
Coconuts do not grow in the Arctic Circle
Coconuts only grow in tropical climates, making an Arctic island coconut a geographical impossibility.
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