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TIL that male antechinus, a small Australian marsupial, engage in marathon mating sessions lasting up to 14 hours, after which they die due to stress-induced immune system collapse

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EgGax TIL when John Steinbeck published The Grapes Of Wrath in 1939, a farm worker with two leaders of California Associated Farmers publicly burned a copy of the book because he did not like what he heard about it, even though he had not read it. After reading it years later, he said he “had no regrets.”
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