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TIL, Neanderthals and Woolly Mammoths Shared Genetic Traits

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8a7lG TIL the English poet Lord Byron was notorious for his robust sex life. He had raging cases of gonorrhea and syphilis by age 21, was rumored to have had a lengthy affair with his half-sister Augusta, and slept with at least 200 women (and a few men) during a three year period in Venice.
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