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Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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The Differences Between Blue Moon Ice Cream and Superman Ice Cream
In medieval bestiaries, a male beaver will bite off its own testicles. This is not true and the glands that hunters were harvesting from beavers for the oily substance known as castorium were not actually testicles. In all the cases we could think of in the moment in the episode with the possible exception of crabs, autonomy is just kind of an automatic release of the sacrifice to pintage. Jan: I wonder if there are any examples where the animal actually has to actively do some kind of cutting or biting or other work to sever its own body part.
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