Article: When garter snakes mate, it's quite a slithery dither

Things I Learned En Route to Looking Up Other Things: That professional actors and actresses are not permitted to use their own real names in their careers if those names have already been registered with Actors Equity by another performer (even though the performer has adopted it as a stage name). That in the Hamptons on Long Island, some summer homes rent for $100,000 for the season from Memorial Day to Labor Day. That the ratio of male garter snakes to females is so skewed that sometimes as many as 100 frantic males may be intertwined with a single female; each male is equipped with two sexual organs, and after the female has been impregnated, he inserts a large "plug" into the ...

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