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TIL That there's a transmissable cancer that affects dogs and is transmitted during sexual copulation. The cancer cells themselves are transmitted, so not via either bacteria or a virus. It's one of only three directly transmittable cancers affecting mammals - Canine transmissible venereal tumor

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