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TIL: Male echidnas have a four-headed penis — during mating, the heads on one side "shut down" and do not grow in size, while the other two are used to release semen. Each time it copulates, it alternates heads in sets of two. Prior to 2007, no one had ever seen an echidna ejaculate.

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