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Me: The human genome only contains about 20,000 genes, but over a million copies of an ancient virus-like sequence called 'Alu' & half a million copies of another called 'L1' & together they make up 27% of your DNA.
c0nc0rdance
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Me: Woodpeckers can wrap their tongues around their skulls, but it's a common misconception that that helps protect their brain from pecking impact. More likely it's just a feeding adaptation.
Dr. Headbutt 🌈🧪
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Me: the microbes in your gut stimulate your immune system & live where pathogens want to live & use the same nutrients as pathogens & they help you digest your food, so really you owe your life to your gut microbes.
Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️
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Me: The mosquito Aedes aegypti is domesticated meaning it thrives with humans. In fact, thousands of years of us swatting them has let to them only biting in places we would not notice.🦟
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Relax, humans lack a baculum.
Don Yee
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Me: Bats' digestive systems run so fast their bacteria don't have time to ferment stuff and so scientists think they don't fart. Their food speedruns in 12-34 minutes!
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Relax, your face mites really do have anuses.
Bethany Brookshire
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Me: Steel shrinks as it heats past the austenitic transition point.
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Me: I can sneeze with my eyes open, and when I do, I look like I'm dead because my eyes don't do those tiny vibrations that living human eyes do.
Ryan Consell
Shantell Powell
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Me: All of Boston is supposed to be a brackish swamp
Kell Compost 😷
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Me: Are you aware that one of the natural predators of the moose is the orca
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Me: in WW2 Britain gave tea higher shipping priority than ammo. In the Blitz, the ENTIRE London tea industry was relocated to secret emergency blending hubs in Cardiff, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester, Hull, Dundee & Leith
John Bull
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me: There is a genus of spiders called Predatoroonops and every species in it is named after one of the characters in Predator (1987)
