Everything is just a little weirder at state fairs.

The food — pork chops on sticks, python kebabs, fried beer.

The contests — grocery bagging, outhouse races, llamas dressed in costumes.

This year, the Missouri State Fair, which begins Thursday and runs through Aug. 17 in Sedalia, is ready to quack you up with a giant bath toy .

The fair is hosting the world’s largest rubber duck , a bright yellow, six-story waterfowl affectionately known as “Mama Duck.”

Since she debuted in the United States at the Port of Los Angeles in August 2014, Mama Duck has starred in thousands of selfies and photographs as she’s traveled the country .

Her measurements are bodacious — 61 feet tall, 64 feet wide, 74 feet long. She’s too large for your average tub.

“The world is her bathtub,” say her ke

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