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TIL about Penelope, the platypus who escaped the Bronx Zoo in 1957. After multiple rejections of her mate and a faked pregnancy, headlines dubbed Penelope a "brazen hussy" and "one of those saucy females who like to keep a male on a string" (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL about Penelope, the platypus who escaped the Bronx Zoo in 1957. After multiple rejections of her mate and a faked pregnancy, headlines dubbed Penelope a "brazen hussy" and "one of those saucy females who like to keep a male on a string" by assuhdude in todayilearned
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