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Old 09-13-2019, 12:56 AM   #151
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That feel when you mistake your intestines for your poop.
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Old 12-15-2019, 04:47 AM   #152
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Water snows on Earth
Carbon dioxide snows on Mars
Bismuth and lead snow on Venus
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Old 12-29-2019, 03:29 PM   #153
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There is ample evidence that in prehistory, humans with injury disabilities were cared for and supported by their kin in stark contrast to how animals treat the same. Empathy was evolutionary selected for and is instinctive to humans.

Prejudice against disability and eugenics as it were evolved with economics and society, i.e. as humans became better able to support them.
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Old 05-22-2020, 03:14 PM   #154
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Jaguars and coyotes are essentially unchanged since the Ice Age - they're the same species, just slimmed down to fit new niches.

The primary food of the jaguar is the capybara, because tapirs are actually too large and tough for them to take down.

Tigers also have trouble with tapirs due to a thick hide behind their neck that makes them difficult to subdue with a bite.
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Old 05-22-2020, 03:18 PM   #155
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Speaking of tapirs, they have massive dongs

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So I was rewatching Cowboy Bebop recently because I wanted to have some joy in my life and remembered watching a documentary about it on YT, but couldn't find it again. But apparently the same facts are on Wikipedia now.

Cowboy Bebop was originally started as a way for Bandai to launch a spaceship toy/model line. Bandai Toys went to Sunrise and asked them to make a sci-fi series with space ships in it. Sunrise asked what it should be about and Bandai replied "Anything with spaceships is fine."

Unfortunately that wasn't actually fine when the first few episodes were shown to Bandai. As the show's ships were all basically junkers kitbashed into being used as fighting vehicles, they weren't really usable as a toyline. Bandai Toys abandoned the product until Bandai (Anime division) decided to just keep funding it.

After coming up with a basic concept of a science fiction western, music was the first thing done. They hired Yoko Kanno as composer and she finished composing very quickly. After finishing though, she would randomly show up at the offices and state she had more music, this being very unprofessional in Japanese business culture. Her enthusiasm and wild behavior as well as amazing talent inspired the production and they used that as the basis for the character of Ed. Luckily Sunrise was relaxed enough to accept her new works rather than blowing her off.
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I'd always thought, either due to direct teaching or cultural osmosis that Satan is the ruler of Heck and he lives in Heck.

Apparently not! Heck is its own thing, and Satan/The Devil wanders the earth tempting mortals into sin, so that they'll eventually sink into Heck when they die.

Also, Lucifer is not the name of the devil. It means "light-bringer" in Latin and somehow got confused as the devil's name. I heard that name in church from my priest so I guess it's canonized now?
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Old 01-16-2021, 05:21 AM   #159
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In the Japanese Sailor Moon dub, Mitsuishi Kotono had appendicitis late in the first season and had to be replaced. This was during the climax of the series when Usagi learns her past, confesses to Tuxedo Mask and defeats Queen Beryl.

The voice actress for this period was Araki Kae, and the ADR directors really liked her. Possibly to the point of wanting to replace Mitsuishi Kotono, but they couldn't simply eject a now famous CV from such an ironic role.

What did they do? They cast Araki as Chibiusa in the next season, without an audition, and over the subsequent seasons (3-4) Chibiusa is arguably the main character of the series.

Season 2 focuses on Chibiusa's past
Season 3 focuses on her friendship with Hotaru
Season 4 focuses on her romance with Helios

It's amusing to me that Sailor Moon ended up getting replaced in her own anime, both behind the scenes and in the story itself.
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Old 03-17-2021, 05:28 AM   #160
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It seems like the feral hippos in Columbia, similar to Pleistocene Park, are terraforming the rainforest ecosystem back to the way it was in the Pleistocene, filling in niches left open by extinct large mammals.
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Hidden Valley Ranch is origin of ranch dressing. It literally didn't exist until that product was invented in 1956.
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Old 06-06-2021, 02:50 PM   #162
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Napoleon III isn't a direct descendant of Napoleon I. He's Napoleon's nephew.

He is, however, a direct descendant of Josephine. While Josephine bore Napoleon no heirs, her children from her first marriage also married into the Bonaparte family and did produce heirs!
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Old 08-07-2021, 03:07 PM   #163
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In the Pokemon movie Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction, Ash (male lead) was voiced by Rika Matsumoto.



Diancie (female lead) was voiced by Marika Matsumoto.



They aren't mother and daughter though.
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So I think everyone's heard of Alec Baldwin accidentally killing Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust. The bizarre twist? The plot of Rust is about the aftermath of an accidental killing in the Old West.
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There are documented cases of wild children having been raised by primates. However, the most common case isn't with gorillas, but ververt monkeys.
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There's a Chinese-run nature preserve in the middle of South Africa called the "Laohu Valley Reserve" which is essentially a farm trying to sustain the world's population of South China Tigers. Tigers are native to China but are critically endangered.

What's interesting is that these tigers, still solitary, have adapted to hunting the native ungulates of Africa. Keep in mind that tigers are solo ambush predators native to forests, much larger than the leopard. Hunting running prey on the African savanna doesn't seem suited to them, but tigers are clever enough to still make it happen and their population in these reserve is booming.
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Jim Henson Workshop (the company behind most of Henson's puppets) isn't actually owned by Disney.

Henson was trying to negotiate a sale to Disney in 1990, but he died before it finalized, and the deal collapsed.

Henson Company sold the rights to the Muppets in 2004, and at the same time Henson sold the rights to the Sesame Street characters to Sesame Workshop.

But the Henson Company is, itself, still independent.
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Bonobo are not a pure species, they're actually hybrids of a bonobo ancestor, chimpanzee, and a third "ghost ape" species that is found in their DNA, but is so extinct there aren't even fossils of it.

Similarly, we're also seeing the collapse of the blue whale and the polar bears as distinct species. Due to sparse population and/or climate change, blue whales are hybridising with fin whales and polar bears hybridising with brown bears.

Chimps/bonobos, blue/fin whales and polar/brown bears each share a genus, but the usual definition of a species is that it can only produce fertile offspring within its own species. Apparently not!
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Spitting cobras evolved the ability to spit venom three times, twice in Africa and once in Asia. In the African case it was with cousins of true cobras that evolved to look similar to cobras.

The reason cobras evolved the ability to spit was as a defense against primates, who tend to kill snakes at a distance with projectiles to avoid getting bitten by them. The cobras developed a behavior to rear up and fire at animals that rely on binocular vision and stand upright - basically limiting the effectiveness ONLY to primates.

Projectiles in the animal kingdom, outside of primates, is extremely rare. Bar vocalization at least. You have pistol shrimp with their cavitation bullets and tarantulas with urticating hairs. But after that, it's basically unheard of.
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It's actually more accurate to say cobras evolved this ability to counter ancient hominids right around the time we split from chimps. And this makes a lot of sense. While a chimp could throw rocks or random debris at a snake to ward it away, it's unlike to accurately hit and kill a small profile of a snake. But a human using a stick can be quite deadly to a cobra. We're most likely to grab a stick that is outside a normal snakes bite range, so approximately 6 feet, and the spitting cobra's effective spit range is 4 to 8 feet, which would effectively counter our use of sticks.
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There's an upcoming documentary on AppleTV+, produced by the BBC, called "Prehistoric Planet" which is set to be the spiritual successor to Walking with Dinosaurs, i.e. it has movie-quality special effects and is set to be as scientifically believable as possible, with all the current knowledge of dinosaurs.

The most unbelievable thing in the trailer is that T-Rex is swimming in deep water. Something that heavy, with those limbs, swimming? Spinosaurus could "swim", but it mostly lurked in shallow lakes and scooped up big fish. It wasn't swimming in the ocean like a crocodile would.

Well, turns out T-Rex could swim. And it was an excellent swimmer.

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When they weren’t chasing down prey or scavenging for food, theropod dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex went for lengthy dips, new evidence suggests. Researchers believe the tiny-armed carnivores were surprisingly adept swimmers.

When a Tyrannosaurus rex comes thundering through the brush, its giant jaws ready to snap you in two, what’s the best place to hide? You might reasonably think of jumping in a lake. With their puny arms, bulky legs and heavy tails, theropod dinosaurs couldn’t have been the world’s best swimmers, right?

Wrong, according to new evidence uncovered in China’s Szechuan Province by University of Alberta researcher Scott Persons. Working with fellow graduate student Lida Xing and an international team, Persons discovered tracks in what was once an ancient riverbed. There, he believes, carnivorous bipedal dinosaurs swam for long distances some 100 million years ago.

“What’s been found is what we’re referring to as a dinosaur superhighway,” explained Persons, who published his findings in the April 8 issue of Chinese Science Bulletin. “This is one area where a whole bunch of dinosaurs traversed.”

The team found both ripple marks and mud cracks in the riverbed, an indication that the ancient waterway flowed during some seasons and dried up during others. Most of the fossilized footprints were left by sauropods and ornithopods, giant herbivores that ambled down the riverbed in herds while it was dry, Persons said.

But one set of tracks, which stretches for 50 feet, is distinctly unlike the others. Rather than representing an animal’s placement of its entire foot on solid ground, these marks were etched by claws scraping the riverbed. “All you have are scratch marks from the claws at the end of the toes,” Persons said. “You have a left-right, left-right, left-right series of scratch marks.”

Persons and his colleagues determined that an early tyrannosaur or a Sinocalliopteryx, another bipedal predator, made the marks while swimming in the river, its feet lightly grazing the bottom as it propelled itself through the water. “It was paddling with its hind legs,” Persons said. “It was doing the dino paddle.” The researchers think the dinosaur stood about 3 feet high at the hip.

Swimming tracks seemingly left by dinosaurs have previously been found in North America and Spain, but the new marks suggest the extinct creatures could paddle for long distances. “What makes these really interesting is there’s a whole series of eight tracks and they extend in a straight line for about 15 meters,” Persons said.

Despite what many might assume, tyrannosaurs and other theropods were highly buoyant and strong swimmers, according to Persons. “Like modern-day birds, dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex had a lot of air sacs in their skeleton to help the animal breathe and lighten the body,” he said. “Like a modern-day crocodile or alligator, they had a very long tail that they could have swished from side to side. And like modern-day water fowl, they had powerful legs.”

But why did Persons’ lone theropod take the plunge into the river in the first place? It could have been chasing down prey, but the motive is beside the point, in Persons’ view. “What’s most interesting is that it could,” he said. “I think it would have been very, very hard to drown a tyrannosaur.”
Elephants can swim in the ocean too apparently. But I been done seen, about everything, when I see an elephant fly.
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Elephants can swim in the ocean too apparently. But I been done seen, about everything, when I see an elephant fly.
There's a joke about you being a Dumbo in here somewhere
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While wild tigers are generally seen as solitary animals, when a tigress is killed, her mate will take over parental duties for the orphaned cubs.

This happens because while tigers are territorial, a male tiger's territory overlaps with that of many females which he will mate with. Add this to smell, and the male tiger is always sure that the cubs are his. He's also aware of the status of the tigress and her cubs in his territory.

The behaviour is rare because it requires two criteria to be met: the cubs have to be weaned off milk and just need to learn how to hunt and get to a size that allows them to hunt, and the mother has to be killed before the father intervenes.
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Nintendo is famously litigious, any attempt at copyright infringement gets hammered by them. Case in point where Nintendo sued researchers who tried to name a cancer gene "Pokemon".

How does one get around Nintendo's copystrikes? By being clever.

Enter Bulbasaurus. Ostensibly, the name refers to the bulbs on the nasal cavity of the animal, which is a mammal-like lizard.

However, the species name, phylloxyron translates to 'razor leaf', ostensibly referring to its beak and the fact it probably ate plans. Uh-huh.
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Despite living in colonies and having gnarly mandibles, termites aren't closely related to ants.

Their closest living relatives are cockroaches. In fact, they evolved from cockroaches.
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