What's the craziest thing you've learned this week? Mine was learning that some male octopuses tend to get eaten by their sexual partners, but male blue-lined octopuses avoid this fate by injecting a potent venom that paralyzes the female temporarily.
Now I'm imagining what the human population would look like if there was a non-zero chance your partner would eat you after sex.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2471120-male-octopus-injects-female-with-venom-during-sex-to-avoid-being-eaten/
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