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As grown-ups, we might remember a few things from our high school. How rain is formed in clouds, the life cycle of plants, and the properties of magnets. While these tidbits of knowledge are quite fascinating, there’s so much bizarre information out there that we still haven't learned.
We stumbled upon the X page called "Weird Science" which shares intriguing science facts about mystifying creatures, railroads, and everything in between. They have something for all the curious minds out there, including hilarious memes. So Pandas, grab some popcorn and get ready to be amazed by these outlandish facts. Who knows, maybe you can impress others with this mind-blowing trivia.
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
truly a vicious beast. victim was clearly very lucky to survive.
D. Pitbull 1 year ago
This is so cute it hurts. Amazing to think about how utterly ginormous they grow... and then they become the confusing mixture of cute yet pants-sh***gly terrifying.
The Weird Science page is a good place to find fun science facts. Started over a decade ago in September 2011, they have a whopping 1.8 million followers. But sometimes people find it hard to believe scientific facts.
Every day, scientists discover new things. For example, recent findings show that a specific kind of desert plant can pull water from the air with the help of special salts. Or advancements in genetic research offer promising prospects for treating inherited diseases. Something that seems mysterious today could be explained tomorrow, keeping our curiosity fueled all the time.
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Ai 1 year ago
Skłodowska-Curie. She choose to have a double surname and yet so many people choose to just ignore it and use not even her, but her husband's name.
Nonna_SoF 1 year ago
The first one being hard to pronounce for most people who's native language is English might have something to do with that.
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flower petals 1 year ago
I heard a mansplaining story where a woman referred to Marie Curie, and a man said: it’s pronounced Mariah Carey 😶🌫️
Jack Burton 1 year ago
Some french are really proud of her like a national treasure, she is burried in the Pantheon in Paris, the greatest honnor our country can allow to a french person. And also some french are against migrants and refugees... So i love you Maria Sklodowska born in Varsaw, Poland. You were polish, french, european. You were a genius and an inspiration in various fields of science.
Lady Miss Pie 1 year ago (edited)
Don’t tell Harrison Butker though, he thinks her achievements aren’t as important as being a housewife and mother
flower petals 1 year ago
What an absolute misogynistic creep- hope they fire his Handmaid lover’s a**..
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Calane E. Vanya 1 year ago
I'm annoyed every time seeing her named "Marie Curie". She deserves her full name known, she was using it. I know I'm biased.
Alan Foster 1 year ago
There are actually five people who have won two Nobel Prizes. Four people have won two Nobel Prizes in science: -Marie Curie: Physics (1903), Chemistry (1911) -John Bardeen: Physics (1956, 1972) -Frederick Sanger: Chemistry (1958, 1980) -Karl Barry Sharpless: Chemistry (2001, 2022) Linus Pauling won for Chemistry (1954) and also won the Nobel Peace Prize (1962)
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Nikolaj Christensen 1 year ago
Called "The whale in the room" referring to one sibling being loved, but always a bit different...
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H G 1 year ago
If only disney did this as a movie, would be better than most projects lately....
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
They would absolutely find a way to mess that up as well
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Zach Kasky 1 year ago
Or it's their prisoner used to keep other narwhal out of their territory killing the prisoners if others get too close.
Science is based on evidence that is derived from experiments and observations. It aims to create reliable information that helps us understand the functioning of our world better. But some facts seem weird and hard to swallow initially.
People have questioned scientific discoveries for ages. Even though progress may seem slow at times, when you step back and take a look, you'll see just how far science has advanced.
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Silly-Rabbit 1 year ago
Slow blink. If you slow blink at a domesticated cat and they mirror you, this shows their affection towards you.
martymcmatrix 1 year ago (edited)
After half an hour of »ping pong blinking« with Sushi and Beefy, it feels like I'm having a »real« conversation with my two cats AND that I am NOT prone to any attempts of subliminal manipulation...🤭 🐈⬛ 🙅🏽 🐈⬛
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Heffalump 1 year ago
Great cats don't purr or meow. Lesser cats don't roar. All cats like getting in boxes.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
There are no lesser cats. We are all wonderful.
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Jules 1 year ago (edited)
Cheetahs are the biggest ones that can purr. Tigers also chuff as a non-threatening / affectionate greeting
ShellsBells 1 year ago
Actually, courgars/pumas/mountain lions/Florida panters are the largest cats that can purr. Fun fact, cougars and cheetahs aren't considered part of the big cats
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kitteh floof lover 1 year ago
big cats can either purr or roar. they can't do both due to anatomical differences needed.
Thee8thsense 1 year ago
My boy, like most domesticated cats, truly bears such a facial resemblance to a tiger. He does the slow blink, but also loves to kiss me. It took a few years for him to become a kisser, but now has no problem planting one on my lips. I have to hide it from him when I quickly wipe my lips, for fear of germs and hurting his feelings!
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Ash 1 year ago
What's crazy is learning how many people out there can't hallucinate... (aphantasia) And it's probably even weirder for them to learn that some people CAN
Auntriarch 1 year ago
I'm staring at my tree slice which tells me how to cook jerk pork, so the hallucinations will become edible
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
*jerks the pork under the sofa*
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Jinx (she/her) 1 year ago
My son can't see images in his mind, it makes me sad sometimes because of how vivid my imagination is and I feel like he's missing out :(
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Don't worry. I have it, and any regular here will tell you I have a vivid imagination. It's just in words, not pictures.
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HelluvaHedgehogAlien 1 year ago
Also, it broadcasts a neutral voice in your head with a strange accent! Wow!
Chewie Baron 1 year ago
Oh, not in my head!! It’s male one day, female another day!
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LizzieBoredom 1 year ago
Back in the old days, we had these things called books.
Load More Replies... David 1 year ago (edited)
Except imagination =/= hallucination. Hallucination is perceived sensory sensations of things that are not there to sense. If you get that level of immersion from a book then good for you but imagining standing in the rain is not the same as feeling yourself getting wet in the rain.
Definitely a Human 1 year ago
I don't hallucinate when I read. That would be incredibly concerning.
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Libstak 1 year ago
Not delusional just exercising their right to be worshipped over a false gold statue.
Pan Narrans 1 year ago
Cats have gravitas and know their worth, therefore the pedestal was put there for the cat. Elementary, my dear Human.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Good soft can-opener. You may have a cookie.
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Liz Siemens 1 year ago
Cute indeed! I also just learned that armadillos have hair. I always thought it was just armor everywhere I dunno why.
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les 1 year ago
while owning an elephant seemed cool and interesting at first, Deepak was soon horrified to find out how the oil changes were done
RabidChild 1 year ago
You just made my longing for The Far Side ratchet up a notch!
Load More Replies... Lyone Fein 1 year ago
He's a monk. He doesn't own anything. The elephant is there because it wants to be.
Cuppa tea? 1 year ago
Here's a long joke about elephant: Two old friends meet, chat about life. What's new? I got myself an elephant. An elephant? Why, what for? You would know, but it's great. It feed som grass, so my p**n is always perfect, kids love to play with it, with it's trim I can wash my car, and also works as guardian animal. Sounds great, where can I get one? Do you know what, since we are long time friends, I will sell it to you. Great, done deal. After some time the meet again, and the new owner of elephant started rant: what did you do to me!? Why, what's wrong? The bloody elephant! Garden is ruined, it smashed my car, kids are scared and wife wants divorce! Ts, ta, you don't talk nicely about elephant, you won't sell it this way.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Chapter 17 - Tusk Removal. "As I say, we tried to remove the tusks. But they were embedded so firmly we couldn't budge them. Of course, in Alabama the Tuscaloosa." - Groucho Marx
StretcherBearer 1 year ago
I am a Marxist. The image of Groucho dancing on Hitler's bunker is something I wish I could have seen in the flesh.
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Tom Hardeveld 1 year ago (edited)
"Be carefull not to put too much in the trunk or your elephant could inflate"
For instance, when Albert Einstein shared his theory of relativity, including special and general relativity, people were really confused. This happened because he raised questions about Newtonian physics. Later, Einstein's concepts revolutionized our understanding of space, time, and gravity.
During the beginning of the 17th century, Galileo challenged conventional beliefs when he proposed the idea that the Earth rotates on its axis. He said that our planet orbits the sun. This contradicted the existing view at the time. Many individuals believed that the sun moved around the Earth, as you couldn’t feel the sensation of the Earth's rotation. Galileo was put on trial for his observations.
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BoredPossum 1 year ago
Not all of them died. The ones who didn't evolved into birds. Some were already pretty birdlike back then.
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OneHappyPuppy 1 year ago
In the book, there's a segment that says if you cut a garlic clove and rub it on the bottom of your foot, soon enough you'll taste it in your mouth, that's how well our bodies absorb it
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Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
Didn’t the author (who was their lecturer / professor) reply with ‘tears of joy and admiration I assume?’.
Kira Okah 1 year ago
That is actually a different one to this, but here is that one. 63647bec57...e3f333.jpg 
Cindy Brick 1 year ago
Add my high school algebra and geometry books, and I'll agree...I shed a lot of tears over those tomes.
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Verena 1 year ago
If you are friends with a horse, offer it. One of mine gets in a scritches coma
Auntriarch 1 year ago
Definitely works on greyhounds, they pretty much collapse, and bum scritches work even faster
Load More Replies... David 1 year ago
True, but also a duh IMO. Most animals (including humans) like to be scratched or rubbed in places they can't easily reach. (for humans, think back rub). I 'petted' a giant tortoise who stood on his tippy toes and stuck his neck way out so I could skritch the parts that were basically his armpits and base of neck. Places he couldn't rub on his own. Big dude really soaked it up.
Alecto76 1 year ago
Tell that to my rescue. She was feral and then lived in a shelter for 11 years. I am not trying to kill her by touching her head. While I can pet her in the lower left quadrant of my bed, when she leaves that area I am not trying to eat her. Its been 3 months.
Beeps 1 year ago
Yup, same here: my indoor cats love it, but the semi ferral rscue that lives in the barn seems to think I want to eat her if I kiss or boop her on top of her head.
Load More Replies... geezeronthehill 1 year ago
I wonder if that is the way we really tamed wolves. Food is one thing, but monkey hands, now...
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Ancient dog ancestor to his friends: "WOAH! DUDE! No, seriously, listen!! Not only do they give us FOOD, they can reach that itchy spot on our heinies!"
Load More Replies... Persephone 1 year ago
Yep. Taking your hand from snoot past ears, in direction of fur, mimics how mom would clean them; it's very soothing to an animal, and can help boost confidence in a nervous one! It's not just "skritching"... just be aware of signs of nervousness if they don't know you well!
In the 19th century, Charles Darwin introduced his theory of evolution. He disputed traditional views on the origin of species. His idea was that humans evolved from apes, whales, and even deep-sea mollusks. Many people, especially those with religious beliefs, rejected his theory during that time.
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Justin Tyme 1 year ago
Not true. What about dividing fractions? The division leads to multiplication.
Steve Hall 1 year ago
We can talk about science or we can talk about math but we can not talk about both.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
You can't do science without math. You can't do anything without math.
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
In baseball, there's a process known as "addition by subtraction" - improving things by trading away a problematic player.
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Mel Colley 1 year ago
I'm guessing it's because it would block the sunlight from getting to the ground hence nothing would grow?
HurlWurk 1 year ago
No, it's thought to have more to do with disease transmission
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Daniela Lavanza 1 year ago
Common trait among pine trees. Look up when walking around these, it's stunning.
Arthur W. Arre 1 year ago
Frequent friction from wind kills any growth in these areas.Nothing mystical.
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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago
To their what? Don’t leave us in suspense!
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PFD 1 year ago
Google does these "Street View treks", such as in the Grand Canyon and other national parks. This is their first desert trek I think and shows Abu Dhabi’s Liwa Oasis.
Load More Replies... Floeckchen 1 year ago
So google is out there mapping the desert but didn't bother to record at least half of the cul de sacs in my block?
Another reason is that sometimes people separate science from its method and treat it like just another opinion. According to a Pew Research study, 35% Americans believe that the scientific method can be used to produce “any result a researcher wants.” Such individuals strongly believe that all hypotheses, including irrational ones, can be taken as credible.
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David Paterson 1 year ago
There are plenty for sale, at prices ranging from $15 to $1500, depending on condition, size and authenticity.
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Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
What I’m getting from this is that Megalodons were the first chiropractors. ‘Just going to adjust your back Mr Whale…… wait for the crack……’.
Jeff Armstrong 1 year ago
Faked fossil :( https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.fossilera.com/blog/about-that-badass-megalodon-tooth-in-a-whale-vertebrae&ved=2ahUKEwjl0ai2jJiGAxXASjABHSEmAQQQFnoECBQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3rv63_3b9lXoX62-Hn9imh
CheshirePhrogg 1 year ago
Maybe something a touch bigger under the circumstances... Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
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Paul Aasajärv 1 year ago
Despite the artful dramatism, it is an uneducated fake artefact. 1. In order for such fossilization to occur, the whale should be served to the megalodon in pieces like herring! 2. In the process of petrification, multi-colored matter is not formed!
Kate 1 year ago
Well, the megalodon was alive at the time. The whale might've been, too.
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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
No doubt, being males, they are debating who has the biggest baby bump ("of course, this is nothing compared to the one I had last time...")
Jack Burton 1 year ago
Are we sure it is not beer ? Just asking cause my bros and i are looking like that and im pretty sure we are not pregnant
Initially, these brilliant theories seemed illogical to people because they contradicted long-held beliefs. Earlier people didn’t have access to accurate information either. But today, it’s easy to find and verify facts, even the weird ones.
So, add a little humor to your day along with some knowledge with these fun science facts. Which one was the most bizarre? Share any crazy facts you know!
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Anna Ekberg 1 year ago
The colours are switched? Like Bizzaro world, i really want to try some. 🤤
UnicornSnotRules 1 year ago
And for some weird reason I am allergic to these but not strawberries???
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Kombatbunni 1 year ago
Imagine the size of the bag the baby tusk fairy has to haul around..
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YetAnotherSarah 1 year ago
Don't downvote Bookworm. She's right. In areas of high poaching, those with larger tusks are hunted- a kind of artificial selection- which has led to the proliferation of the naturally occuring mutation of tuskless female elephants: normally 6% of the population, up to 1/3 of the population in some areas.
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Annabel Again 1 year ago
Wait, stop everything! Does that mean they… Come out of their mother… With tusks on?!?
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similarly 1 year ago
"Africa was very interesting," said Ford, "I behaved very oddly there." ... "I took up being cruel to animals," he said airily. "But only," he added, "as a hobby." "Oh yes," said Arthur, warily. "Yes," Ford assured him. "I won't disturb you with the details because they would—" "What?" "Disturb you. But you may be interested to know that I am singlehandedly responsible for the evolved shape of the animal you came to know in later centuries as a giraffe." - Life, the Universe, and Everything, Douglas Adams
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Alecto76 1 year ago
I (US) attended a party where people were making themsleves vomit to eat more. Where was I? Blegium. They were Belgians.
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Mavis 1 year ago
The internet is not just used for googling answers to questions, it is sooooo much more than that. I would worry that shutting it down would adversely affect other systems that rely on the internet to function.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
They probably mean access to the World Wide Web and not the Internet
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General Anaesthesia 1 year ago (edited)
They shut down mobile internet and Short Messaging System (SMS, text messaging).
marianne eliza 1 year ago
If you're curious, look up some of the elaborate schemes used in the past to help people cheat on state tests in various countries. PCB's in their shoes. People on rooftops with binoculars to look at the test questions then send the answers.
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Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
Bought by Bourdain from Kramer for $5,000 it’s a mixture of Carbon Steel and Meteorite, so yep it’s a form of Damascus steel, it was auctioned off as one of Bourdain’s possessions and made $231250 for the Bourdain Scholarship Foundation. The buyer is thought to have been Marco Pierre White.
Load More Replies... ninjaTrashPandaBoom 1 year ago
There are numerous katanas made from meteorites as well, “sword of the sky,” or Tentetsutou is a good example.
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Cooking Panda 1 year ago
Anthony Bourdain, a legendary world-class chef. He passed away a while ago
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bas vdlaar 1 year ago
The blade of Tutanchamon was made from a meteorite, which makes sense because regular iron hadn't been invented/discovered yet.
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David Paterson 1 year ago
The water level now is higher than in Mesoamerican times. You can find their camp fires on the bottom.
David 1 year ago
How do you know they were not just REALLY GOOD at making campfires? /j
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Sky Render 1 year ago (edited)
That looks a lot like a cenote (meteoric sinkhole). There's a lot of cenotes near the Chixulub meteor crater, unsurprisingly!
El Cucuy 1 year ago
Cenotes are not meteoric sinkholes. They are a natural pit, or sinkhole, resulting when a collapse of limestone bedrock exposes groundwater. And they can be found all throughout the Yucatán Peninsula among other locations.
Load More Replies... Foxglove🇮🇪 1 year ago
Cenote. Some are as good as bottomless 😱. I tried to swim in one but ended up clinging to the wall because of the black depths below.
ShellsBells 1 year ago
There's a karst spring in Florida called Devil's Den. People can snorkel the surface and scuba dive into the caverns. Really cool place to visit.
Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 1 year ago
That's a "cenote". At Chichen Itzá,the holy cenote is 26m wide and about 30m deep. There are archaeological rests (human Bones, earthware pieces and jewels) in it.
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The Original Bruno 1 year ago
"Vampyromorphida" disagree. They are more closely related to octopodes than any other creature, and have eight arms, but are in a sister taxon within the octopode's order, and are known as "vampire SQUID."
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SosaSpicious 1 year ago
Correction, he had HOPS and dreams at one point 🙃
Load More Replies... Lene 1 year ago
And I noticed his front legs are as big as the back legs. That makes sense if he's walking and climbing. The jumping frogs, iirc, have bigger back legs because they need more muscle to jump around, jump around, jump up, jump up, and get down....
Awkward Momma Panda 1 year ago
Here, take my angry upvote for your glorious comment..
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Lene 1 year ago
I looked at that picture and thought to myself "If I was swimming/diving and I saw this thing... would I try to touch it?" And my lips curled up weirdly in disgust "ok, so that's a nope, then. But what if I wore a glove?" And the lips curled even harder.... so that's just a big nope from here.
Prius Owner 1 year ago (edited)
Eight legs = arachnids, six legs = insects, ten legs = crustaceans; distinctions between classes for phylum Arthropoda.
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Lil Miss Hobbit 1 year ago
Same with sheep. And this is why you don't hear about cows biting people, haha. It's only mildly uncomfy to be chewed on.
geezeronthehill 1 year ago
They wrap their tongue around the grasses and draw the bundle over the row of incisors, shearing it off.
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Nonna_SoF 1 year ago
I mean the Brits told them their continent was now a prison so...
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Sophie Knight 1 year ago
Ok, not an expert in kangaroos (obviously) but how the hell do male kangaroos get those sort of biceps? I mean, are they weightlifting rocks out in the bush to pump themselves up???
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Kliskabojumba 1 year ago
Actually they are made up of cartilage like shark teeth and are hollow on the inside with air spaces which help in cooling their bodies down in the hot climates they are habited, the long horns are actually rwquired for them to survive.
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Uncle Schmickle 1 year ago
I don't know how they can support these horns, let alone walk with them.
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Panda Kicki 1 year ago
Exactly how did you study this? Threw a big party for a flock of seagulls?
Pandora 1 year ago
Probably by observing birds who've eaten fermented fruit. 🤔
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
We've never drunk birds, but we're willing to try.
LizzieBoredom 1 year ago
99 bags of bird seed on the wall. 99 bags of seed.....Every birdbody sing!
Goth Mouse (he/they) 1 year ago
Every year when the flying ants swarm where i live hundreds of seagulls have a big party and get drunk from eating the ants 😅 they do fly a bit wobbly afterwards
Tayler 1 year ago
If you wouldn't give alcohol to a child, why would you give alcohol to a bird? Alcohol can depress a bird's organ system and cause death.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
Nobody said anything about giving alcohol to birds. Fruit or berries will occasionally ferment causing alcohol to be produced in them. They then get eaten by birds and the birds get drunk.
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deejak 1 year ago
You ever try to relocate a spider by twirling a stick in the web (like cotton candy) and that spider just *poof* rappels down out of that sticky mess like he's made of teflon? How does that work?
Lene 1 year ago
They just work quicker, I suppose. Like a defence mechanism? I do not know but I suppose if it's a defence mechanism it is a lighter thread with no sticky stuff on it? So it's faster to make?
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Lisa Catlin 1 year ago
Have you ever walked into a spider web? They are pretty strong, you’ll bounce back a step or two.
Hiram's Friend 1 year ago
The trick is getting them to weave to specification. They spin it out in their own way.
Weasel Wise 1 year ago
Not according to the slightest bit of research: five times stronger.
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Panda Kicki 1 year ago
Photo is misleading, either fixed or a forced perspective with diver far behind the fish.
Ash 1 year ago
Here's a better photo for scale: https://petmojo.com/facts-ocean-sunfish.jpg?id=image-4c656801bb09013af11c34c81fec8f619c846f12-1200x690-jpg&width=1200&quality=80&fm=webp
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Another interesting fact: the sunfish's mouth is permanently fixed in the open position.
Chewie Baron 1 year ago
And they do absolutely bugger all! They’re the most boring fish in the world.
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Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Which always makes me wonder why traditionally, humans serve them milk or cream as a "treat."
Deborah B 1 year ago
Because traditionally, cats pooped outside, so the effects of lactose intollerance were easy to miss. People also used to have a tradition of putting a saucer of milk or bread and milk out for faries/brownies/pixies/local equivalent, to prevent them playing tricks, such as opening gates, panicking animals, blunting tools, hiding things. Cats are oportunistic, so people would see them drink the fairie's milk, and think milk was a treat for them as well.
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
Most mammals are infact lactose intolerant as adults, we humans are an exception. And even most of the population is (Caucasians being the only group with a higher amount of tolerant than intolerant people statistically)
ginshun 1 year ago
Humans are not an exception. Probably 65% of people worldwide are lactose intolerant.
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Patsy Robins 1 year ago
Most adult MAMMALS are lactose intolerant, the amazing thing is that more humans aren’t.
ginshun 1 year ago
more humans are lactose intolerant than are not. Roughly 65% of human adults are.
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Kevin Gareau 1 year ago
Milk is natures baby formula it's not designed for adults of any species! Humans have just built up a tolerance like all the other c**p we put in our bodies.
TruthoftheHeart 1 year ago
Yes so no milk for them even as a treat, try giving them cantaloupe safe and my cats go to nuts for cantaloupe
Stephanie Fay 1 year ago
I read somewhere that those who are lactose intolerant are actually "normal". Humans are supposed to grow out of the ability to digest dairy after infancy.
smugdruggler 1 year ago
Most adult mammals are lactose intolerant. Humans are unusual in that most of us can digest it after weaning.
María Hermida 1 year ago (edited)
"most of us" depends on the area of the world you are from. I read somewhere lactose tolerance is a mutation, very common in people from Europe, but unusual in people from the Far East. In China, a lot of people are lactose intolerant.
Load More Replies... Uncle Schmickle 1 year ago
Yep ... don't give milk or cream to your cat. They're fine with water only.
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Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
I have heard that some African villages use beehives to keep elephants at bay.
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Ann Kapoxeet 1 year ago
It was designed this way in order to create more green space. It would have to be to accommodate the immense weight of the trees. It's beautiful. The upkeep is a fascinating engineering design.
Kira Okah 1 year ago (edited)
Because the caption is actually wrong. These are new and in use.
Load More Replies... pebs 1 year ago
I answered above the same question asked by the PFD user, you can read it if you like.
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Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Nothing quite like looking over the bow of a ship (USCG in my case), and seeing them roll away from the stem. Or, looking aft into the prop wash.
Kenneth Smith 1 year ago
It's where The Shimmer originates, though I will never deny a beloved BioShock reference its due.
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Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Orangutans are revealing themselves to be so much more intelligent than humans dreamed. Maybe they'll be the first to throw the tablets away.
ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago
It's not the tablet that's the problem. It's how long we spend on them.
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Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
The tablet looks way too big unless that's some kind of pygmy orangutan
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Col Car 121 Car 1 year ago
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/orangutan-treated-own-wound-medicinal-plant-rcna150230. Orangutan using plants medically.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
That was the exact info I based my comment upon. The first known nonhuman animals to self medicate! What else will we learn about our earthly neighbors?!
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Manana Man 1 year ago
The question is what do they do with the tablets? If they throw them that wouldn't be very smart. But if they're posting to BP, that would be...uhh...hmmm.
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Kai 1 year ago
Amazing this is actually not fake! I thought for sure someone just wanted to plant nightmare seeds
Max Fox 1 year ago
Not a fake, but a reconstruction, since they have only found skeletal remains.
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I cannot understand how evolution concluded that for this type of shark, that set of teeth was the best of the best. But then again.... it died out so perhaps evolution figured it wasn't a great idea....
Nikolaj Christensen 1 year ago
Might have been perfect for a very specific type of squid or other prey, that lived in the same time period for a million or 2 years...
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OhnoI’vebeencensored 1 year ago
Yeah it takes a while to turn my wife on. Uh… I’ll see myself out.
Clown fish 1 year ago
Lol you need the right hard drive 🤣🤣 sorry I'll be off now
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Definitely a Human 1 year ago (edited)
Considering the supercomputer Frontier is calculated to have around the same processing power as a human brain; I find this hard to believe. Seems like some creative accounting, if not flat out lying, is going on
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OhnoI’vebeencensored 1 year ago
Not lava, but ignited volcanic gases. The blue colour is from the chemical compounds that are burning, not because of the temperature.
Nonplussed Puss 1 year ago (edited)
I've been there. Local miners make the trek up, in, then out and back down twice a day to carry out sulfur in baskets. Helluva way to make a living, and foreign tourist crowds make it really hard for them. The blue flames are from ignited gases; we only saw a hint of them when I was there (2018). https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/pictures-kawah-ijen-volcano-east-java
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Tayler 1 year ago
Why do humans have to kill everything that is the largest, oldest , most whatever. Record it and let it go.
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Nikolaj Christensen 1 year ago
Or in a tank in a zoo, or in a private person's aquarium.. BUT I agree that we should stop destroying nature in general including off course the oceans!
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Bill Swallow 1 year ago
Also check out 'the Horseshoe Curve' near Altoona, Pennsylvania.
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Petra Schaap 1 year ago
what makes it special is that trains can cross themselfs because US trains are long. we passed it several times but never saw it with train unfortunately.
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
If memory serves, there is a section of highway in the US that does this. I can't recall if it's Interstate or U.S. highway, and despite numerous searchers I can't find it. Maybe I imagined it.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
US. Route 61 across Spiral Bridge at Hastings High Bridge? Actually here's a link: a few listed in USA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_bridge
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Manana Man 1 year ago
Well it's an old design that isn't used much anymore on highways. Makes cars slow way down as they come to criss-crossing on/off merging traffic, so it's accident prone. Can be dangerous on a railway too. Uneven weight distribution, high pulling force plus a tight curve can pull the middle cars off the track - there's a term for that tha I can't think of right now.
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Bexxxx 1 year ago
“The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. It is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils. At 508 million years old, it is one of the earliest fossil beds containing soft-part imprints.“
Load More Replies... BarkingSquirell 1 year ago
I've been up to the dig site at Yoho: hard hike up, worth it. What the hike down did to my feet for 8 months? Not worth it (and yes, I was wearing quality hiking boots.)
Michael MacKinnon 1 year ago
Been there on a guided tour by Parks Canada. Got to find (and leave behind) trilobite fossils.
BoredPossum 1 year ago
The most important find in biology? Really? Genetics, DNA, Vaccines, the freaking Cell, Photosynthesis, The citric acid cycle, Mitochondria, Brainfunctions, insulin...
Kira Okah 1 year ago
Biological find, as in a discovered biological record, not find in biology. Finding soft bodied fossil preservation in relation to evolutionary adaptation and process really is the most important biological find.
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They were first spotted by McConnell and first studied and excavated by Walcott. So why are they called Burgess?
Margalus 1 year ago
Because the shale was already named that a century before the fossils were discovered
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Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago (edited)
Okay, I misread boot…. Boob print still made sense in my head!
Load More Replies... Russell Bowman 1 year ago
We were told these were "blast craters" ... a build up of "volcanic methane gas" under ground .. something provides the spark ... boom
Rachel Pelz 1 year ago
Better not put your toe or finger in there to find out though
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RabidChild 1 year ago
Omg, we've all got an inner 12 year old boy, don't we? This made me lol.
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trollingergirl 1 year ago
So interesting. I asked ChatGPT: Blue-footed boobies have their characteristic blue feet due to specific pigments called carotenoids, which they obtain from their diet, particularly from fish and crustaceans. These pigments are deposited in their feet, giving them their striking blue color. The blue feet also play a crucial role in the mating behavior of blue-footed boobies. Bright, vivid blue feet signal to females that the potential mate is healthy and genetically fit. Males with more intense blue feet have a better chance of attracting a female and successfully mating. The color of the feet can also indicate the overall health and nutritional status of the bird. A healthier bird with a better diet will have bluer feet. In summary: Pigments from Diet: The blue color comes from carotenoids in their food. Mating Advantage: Blue feet signal health and genetic fitness, which is important in mate selection.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
Similar to flamingos then? Eat pink stuff turn pink.
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I'm.Just.A.Girl 1 year ago
They're gorgeous! And that's coming from somebody who doesn't particularly care for birds
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michael reid 1 year ago
There is a road sign near me that says "Dogs Trust" (it's an animal rescue centre) and someone has put a sign underneath saying "Cats don't"
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Pyla 1 year ago
A beautiful place where new evidence of humans arriving on the continent 10,000 years before previously thought.
tameson 1 year ago
White Sands is gypsum. "When it comes to sand, size is all that matters. That is because sand is defined as any mineral between .065 millimeters and 2 millimeters in diameter, which is about the width of a nickel. The fact that sand can be composed of any mineral provides endless combinations of sand!" https://www.nps.gov/whsa/learn/sand.htm
Jennifer Johnson 1 year ago
went there in the summer, was really hot out. walking around here, the "sand" was cool to the touch and super soft to walk on. people come there with sleds and sled down the hills
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Russell Tilling 1 year ago
They built the city up on stilts around the water, not dug a channel for water out of dry land.
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Justin Tyme 1 year ago (edited)
A manmade seawater channel is a canal. canal: “a long, thin stretch of water that is artificially made either for boats to travel along or for taking water from one area to another” Cambridge Dictionary, 2024.
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flower petals 1 year ago
That poor thing looks like it just woke up and doesn’t know where or what day it is 😆
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Virgin Panda 1 year ago
I wish I could go to the toilet once a week and lose about a third of my body weight 😩
Ash 1 year ago
not if it took you five hours to get to the bathroom when you needed to go...
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WindySwede 1 year ago
And how can the Monarch butterfly be able to know where its going?! Wiki:"This is a multi-generational migration, with individual monarchs only making part of the full journey." 😯
Virgil Blue 1 year ago
I heard they use hereditary memory. No idea how it works but it obviously does.
Load More Replies... Leigh 1 year ago
Thanks! You just an idea for my next poem. What a butterfly remembers!
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Ash 1 year ago
But only bacteria and microbial fungi! The fish noped out.
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Surenu 1 year ago
I guess that, despite being on the flag, they can't afford to live in California anymore
David Paterson 1 year ago
This is true, which surprised me. More Grizzly bears live in Western Canada than in Alaska, because Canada isn't part of America.
FreeTheUnicorn 1 year ago
Where they are called Brown bears. grizzlies live in California, like cougars.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
Did you know if you immerse yourself in it and breathe in, you can die?!!!
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
And, all autistic children have consumed it at some point! Plus, it’s super reactive!
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trollingergirl 1 year ago
Dihydrogen monoxide (abbreviation DHMO) is a chemically correct term for water (H2O), but it is used used ironically as a scientific joke for water (H2O). (Wikipedia). Stay hydrated! Drink water!
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WindySwede 1 year ago
After seeing this some tears ago, the 12 base of us made more sense. Don't know if this is the origin though?
Adrian 1 year ago
Base 12 made more sense because it has more factors. Octal is also good. 10 is boring...
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Anywhere but Here 1 year ago
I wonder if that’s why sometimes I get a carrot in the garden like this? They’re usually white and kind of “hairy.” They’ve gone wild?
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Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
This is a little like saying that I can outrun Usain Bolt when he's asleep.
M O'Connell 1 year ago
You would be incorrect, though the statement is phrased oddly. The speed of light in a vacuum is 300,000km/s, but the speed of light in glass is only 200,000km/s. It is theoretically possible to have a particle traveling higher than 200,000km/s, which would be moving faster than light in glass.
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ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
Is this different from photosynthesis? Or was that the joke that just Woooshed
RabidChild 1 year ago
Do they make that noise the Bionic Man makes whenever he switches to bionic mode while they do it?
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Bored Seagull 1 year ago
Depends on the sloth, two-toed sloths can have as few as five neck vertebrae, less than the seven of most mammals. Only three-toed sloths have more than seven neck vertebrae.
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Peppy 1 year ago
I’m still allowed to have a cocktail on a treadmill though, right?
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David Paterson 1 year ago
This makes sense. Birds only bob their head so that their eyes stay still for as long as possible, like twirling ballarinas. On a treadmill, the eyes stay still all the time without bobbing.
Virgil Blue 1 year ago
The head bobbing is to quickly switch from a stable clear viewpoint to another. Makes it so it's easier to spot trouble. On the treadmill they don't need to switch yo a new view and can keep still.
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David Paterson 1 year ago
What is totally weird is that the number of photons is within a factor of 4 of the number of neutrinos, just slightly more.
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ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago
🙄 This is like when they allow males to compete in female competitions.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
... where it used its supercomputing power to fix our entire heath care system, right?
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David Paterson 1 year ago
Dolphin fights are responsible for most of the scarring on dolphins. One particular species, Risso's dolphin, is usually head to tail covered in scars from dolphin fights. A few other dolphin species are the same.
Prius Owner 1 year ago
Dolphin jaws don't leave scars like the ones in the photo.
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Mark 1 year ago
The SR-71 needed to be refueled almost immediately after takeoff, because the takeoff weight had to be as low as possible. The tanker is probably a KC-135
David Paterson 1 year ago
Also because it leaked fuel like a sieve before its airframe warmed up to operating temperature.
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Paul Aasajärv 1 year ago
I suspect it won't work. Or if, then only with dresin. According to memory, an iron bridge is very, very, very specifically a railway bridge!
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whodunnitfan2013 1 year ago
I had a dream once many years ago that looked very similar to this...
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Ash 1 year ago
Fun fact: Daguerreotypes, one of the precursors of photographs, had a significantly higher resolution than photos did. (http://www.codex99.com/photography/5.html) IIRC, one "pixel" in a daguerreotype is basically just one molecule of silver. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6628657/)
Michael Largey 1 year ago
So cataracts are sort of that fingertip that appears in all my photos?
David Paterson 1 year ago
Not even close. The human eye has 120 black and white megapixels for night viewing but only 6 colour megapixels for day viewing. So, fewer colour pixels than an iPhone.
iseefractals 1 year ago
In good light, you can distinguish two fine lines if they are separated by at least 0.6 arc-minutes (0.01.Degrees). This gives an equivalent pixel size of 0.3 arc-minutes. If you take a conservative 120 degrees as your horizontal field of view and 60 degrees in the vertical plane, this translates to … 576 megapixels of available image data.
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David Paterson 1 year ago
I just looked to the scientific paper on that. It is apparently... false. None of the gut bacteria have a circadian rhythm. So far the only bacteria found to have a circadian rhythm are the blue-green algae that presumably are responsible for the circadian rhythm in plants as they became the chloroplasts.
Ash 1 year ago
you just FEEL like even your gut microbes are suffering from jet lag.
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David Paterson 1 year ago (edited)
Recently, giant viruses have been discovered that are larger than bacteria. Even the COVID virus, when you count its projections, can reach 200 nm in diameter, which is getting up in size towards the smallest bacteria. Giant viruses get up to 500 nm in diameter. Small bacteria are 200 to 300 nm in diameter. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_virus
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 year ago
I mean according to my high school biology knowledge (in the uk so 16 yrs old is the oldest age) dont viruses multiply in human cells, therefore needing to be smaller?
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Alex Kennedy 1 year ago
They’re using some pretty strong equivocation to make a statement that really means nothing. When the Earth accreted, everything on it technically came from meteorites, therefore all metal ultimately came from meteorites (at least, I think that’s what they’re saying).
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Brian Herold 1 year ago
I think it's saying that, in the early days after Earth was formed and before it developed an atmosphere, it was regularly bombarded by meteors, many of them made of various metals, which later got buried, then dug up much later by mining.
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ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
Here's one my friend told me. There are more tigers in Texas than all of Africa. (It's true. Mostly because tigers live in Asia, not Africa 🤣)
PFD 1 year ago
There are apparently more captive tigers in the US than wild tigers in the world, which is pretty startling - and *possibly* more just in Texas (estimates vary dramatically).
Load More Replies... WindySwede 1 year ago
How can we know if they are really true without citations? 🤓🤓🤓 source: "trust me" 🙃
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
Fact checking a few reveals some untrue posts and a some just partially true posts, as usual for content scraped from X-creta.
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ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
Here's one my friend told me. There are more tigers in Texas than all of Africa. (It's true. Mostly because tigers live in Asia, not Africa 🤣)
PFD 1 year ago
There are apparently more captive tigers in the US than wild tigers in the world, which is pretty startling - and *possibly* more just in Texas (estimates vary dramatically).
Load More Replies... WindySwede 1 year ago
How can we know if they are really true without citations? 🤓🤓🤓 source: "trust me" 🙃
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
Fact checking a few reveals some untrue posts and a some just partially true posts, as usual for content scraped from X-creta.
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