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Why would someone create a transaction where the fee is bigger than the sum of the outputs?

My guess is those are Ordinals Inscriptions (NFTs). They typically have a single output of 10000 Satoshi (about $28 US). Update: Yes, typical huge witness data in one I checked. So fee correspondingly ...
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DoS attack and MAX_BLOCKS_IN_TRANSIT_PER_PEER

this limit implies and allows "[...] spreading the load and ensuring that it doesn't overwhelm any peer with requests." and "[...] allowing the peers to control the pace of updates ...

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