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TIL a 73-year-old man in Kenya was tending to his farm when a leopard charged out of the long grass & attacked him. Although, he was holding a machete, he decided to drop it & thrust his hand into "its wide-open mouth" instead. Gradually, he managed to pull out its tongue, which led to its death.

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