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TIL There’s a species of marsupial that fucks to death. The Antechinus males all die en masse at the end of each mating season, after vigorous and sustained sexual encounters causes their bodies to disintegrate from stress.

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neE9o TIL that when America's first rocket scientist, Robert Goddard, theorized that rockets could reach the moon, the New York Times harshly criticized him and wrote that he "lacked the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." 49 years later, Apollo 11 succeeded and the NYT published a retraction.
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