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TIL about Diego the tortoise who "had so much sex he saved his species". Named after the San Diego Zoo he belongs to a critically endangered species( just 15 tortoises left alive in 1976 ). After a successful breeding program he ended up fathering around 900 offspring.

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0wXrR TIL about the flower that smells like a corpse. Titan Arum is one of the largest (typically 6 - 8 feet tall) and rarest flowers in the world, once bloomed it emits a strong odor similar to a rotting corpse to attract pollinators.
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