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Reply to comment by Turtle_Shaft in TIL That There's a Bible Belt In The Netherlands by iamasinglepotassium
Europeans are, on a whole, a lot less religious than Americans, and unlike the US, where religious belief is holding steady, Religion is very quickly plummeting in Europe.
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Reply to comment by 777IRON in TIL The organizers of the Japan Olympics in 2021 distributed 160,000 condoms to the athletes by Future_Green_7222
Not to mention it’s probably their first chance to let loose after months of intensive training all day every day. Plus their alcohol tolerances are probably pretty low because I doubt they’d have been doing any drinking during their training period.
So yeah, hot, athletic, young, pent up, drunk people. It’s a bangfest
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Reply to TIL a US congressman once wielded an 18-inch club made from a walrus penis bone in a congressional hearing. by gregmck
Thank fuck humans don’t have a baculum, there’s something unnerving about having a bone in there
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Reply to comment by SerifGrey in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh
Not humans, humans always gave birth with a placenta. Millions of years ago, a mammal was infected with a virus that ended up resulting in a structure that became the placenta.
We can look at the non-placental mammals around to deduce how our non-placental ancestor would have spawned offspring. The obvious is egg laying, like almost every animal does today besides placental mammals. We see this in monotremes like the platypus. The other option is to do it like marsupials where offspring is born ridiculously underdeveloped, and spends its early life in a pouch drinking it’s mothers’ milk.
Live birth is observed in some non-mammals, like sharks. Those shark species sustain themselves by eating their siblings while still in the mother
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Reply to comment by EmpireStateBuilding in I am Siobhan MacShane. I've been a Observatory Host at the Empire State Building since 2004. AMA. by EmpireStateBuilding
My condolences
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Reply to comment by USAIsAUcountry in TIL of Trix, a t-rex skeleton that is considered one of the most complete skeletons ever found. It was found only in 2013 on a farmers land in Montana, US. It was bought from the farmer for almost $5mil and is now on permanent display in The Netherlands. by lucamila5
Imo the state should be able to seize things of significant historical value and only pay out for the loss of projected income over losing access to the land during the dig, as well as any restorative costs.
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Reply to comment by Melodic_Survey_4712 in TIL that the Incans genetically modified and hybridized crops such as potatoes at sites like the Moray Terrace. by A_Generic_White_Guy
Not the various Inuit societies. They’re all about that meat life
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Reply to comment by Firespark7 in TIL that the ancient Greeks placed a coin in or on the mouth of a dead person before burial. It is a myth that they placed a pair of them on the eyes. by joeljpa
I wonder how many dead people do an Ozzie Osbourne impression
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Reply to comment by hawke1138 in Stephen Fry to Host ‘Jeopardy!’ for ITV in U.K. by TheCrazedGeek
I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have a tapeworm
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Reply to comment by loopsataspool in TIL - That avocado seeds are so large because they depended on extinct megafauna to eat and disperse them. by byronhadleigh
No, their word for avocado was just their slang word for testicles, like how we use “nuts” today.
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Reply to comment by MrBrightsighed in Unlike most mammals, female naked mole rats develop new eggs throughout their entire lives – a finding that could lead to improvements in human infertility research. by chrisdh79
Yeah but if they’re paying for this at 70, they’re probably loaded, and you’ll have a large inheritance by the time you’re 20
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Reply to comment by Spartyjason in The Best TV Shows You Haven't Watched Yet by Mr_Tanan
I watched Season 1 of Killing Eve not long ago, I liked it at the start but once Eve and the assassin started hanging out, I was pretty ready for it to be over. I have no intention to watched past season 1
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Reply to The Best TV Shows You Haven't Watched Yet by Mr_Tanan
I’ve literally watched all of these, they’re all very popular. Killing Eve is the only one that isn’t completely mainstream,
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Reply to comment by Dazzling-Ducks in TIL a Gameboy was stored in a barracks that was bombed in The Gulf War and it ran Tetris like nothing happened. by FalseWallaby9
I got my switch on launch day and my joycons have never given me any problems.
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Reply to comment by TheReal_AlphaPatriot in TIL your computer keyboard is 20,589 times dirtier than a toilet seat. The average office keyboard has 3,543,000 colony-forming units (CFU) of bacteria per square inch while your average toilet seat only has 172 CFU per square inch by SappyGilmore
For $1 million, I’d eat my own shit, but I wouldn’t eat a stranger’s shit
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Reply to comment by stellaluna29 in If you’re enjoying The Last of Us… by Just_Browsing_2017
The outbreak is my favourite part of every pandemic show/movie, especially zombie ones. It’s actually why I’ve been enjoying The Last of Us so much, every episode has had an outbreak flashback.
28 Days Later is the only film I think skipping most of the outbreak made better. The Walking Dead is extra bad because it skipped the outbreak and it copied 28 Days Later’s start exactly
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Reply to comment by MickeyMouseRapedMe in TIL: A 60-year-old Japanese truck driver learned that he was switched at birth after being born to a rich family, but instead grew up in poverty and raised by a single mother. by LimeSugar
It is a movie, in fact, it’s multiple movies. This happened a lot in Japan during that time period
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Reply to comment by zykezero in Under the mistletoe by Afrosmokes
The Thing is one of the best movies of all time. The best anime doesn’t even come close
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Reply to comment by C0ffeeGremlin in Under the mistletoe by Afrosmokes
Which is just anime The Thing
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People prefer male actors. For some reason, that’s just a fact. So either men will dominate the best gender-neutral actor awards and lots of people will be angry, or there will be an behind-the-scenes push for award bodies to try and balance the gender win rates, which will make a lot of people angry
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Reply to comment by ebikr in TIL the balloons in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade were introduced in 1928 to replace live zoo animals. by NotLaFontaine
They seemed fine with it in Shrek
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Reply to comment by AudibleNod in TIL Andy Warhol amassed a collection of 175 ceramic cookie jars worth $250,000 by offchance
cinematographers watch out
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Reply to Before 'Riverdale' came along and gave us immortal sorcerers and time travel, 'Archie's Weird Mysteries' was the weirdest TV series in the Archieverse by sundaynightheat99
I watched season one and a bit of season two. I stopped because I found it pretty ridiculous that there was a serial killer about and the solution to stop him serial killing was for the high school football team to remove their shirts, put on masks, and record a video threatening the killer.
I’m very surprised to hear it got even more ridiculous than that