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Fishing duo Cole & Jay demonstrate their survival skills using easy DIY Coke can fishing reels to successfully slay multiple fish species.

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Amazon mollies don't need a man, and never will. A new study finds they can purge and repair genetic mutations that would otherwise plague a self-cloning species.

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