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TIL that in 2005, some 1,500 sheep jumped off a cliff, in Turkey. Only the first 450 or so were killed, as the remaining animals’ falls were cushioned by the dead bodies below. More recently 50 sheep on their way to slaughter and jumped to their deaths in an unexplained and unprovoked mass suicide.

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