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TIL Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts “can't stand snakes [and is] scared to death of the damn things”, but he still carried around a 100 pounds python and later on a king cobra with him because “there were enough zeros on [his] contract to make him forget about his fear [of snakes]”.

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