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TIL about male Australian semelparous phascogales, a tiny marsupial, that have such frantic sex that it can kill them. They copulate for up to 14 hours at a time, during which their muscles start to break down so that every ounce of energy can be diverted into mating.

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6e0w TIL that Don King has murdered two people. The first was ruled “justifiable homicide” and the other was pardoned completely.
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