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TIL a Doberman in India died protecting its owners from 4 mountain cobras, fighting them for 4 hours. He killed all of them, but then died from poison from multiple snake bites. Hundreds of people paid their respects to him, laying floral wreaths on his body, and held a funeral procession for him.

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