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@catsalad You're almost always within three feet (or one meter in sane measurement systems) from a spider.
@catsalad ()() is not a palindrome but )(() is.
@catsalad "bint" means girl, daughter, etc. in Arabic but in Scots English it's a derogatory term for a woman, not quite as strong as "bitch". I don't know if the two are related.
My wife discovered this while driving with a Lebanese friend, she had apparently picked up the word from me and called somebody who cut her off a bint and her friend asked where she'd heard it.
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fluorescent peanut butter is pronounced GIF
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Freshwater and Saltwater fish have no preference for salinity outside of buoyancy.
If you put a salt water fish in fresh water it will sink to the bottom and struggle to move upward while freshwater fish in saltwater will struggle to leave the water's surface.
@catsalad@infosec.exchange there are three referenced human beings in the Peppa Pig universe.
- Santa Clause.
- Queen Elizabeth II (RIP)
- Haruhi Suzumiya
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Donald Duck is one of the strongest mages in Final Fantasy.
@indigoviolet *Donald Duck voice* – I will duck you up!
@catsalad@infosec.exchange Some time in the early 1990s Cedar Point amusement park's employee newsletter contained a joke that their Magnum XL-200 roller coaster was sinking in the sand it was built on. This took off as an urban legend that persists to this day.
@catsalad I just learned that ‘baataar’ is the Mongolian non-gendered term for ‘warrior’ or ‘hero’
The fish brain develops so that the lateral bits end up in the middle and the medial bits end up on the sides. Yet there’s a one to one mapping from each fish brain gross area to our own. 500 million years apart in evolutionary terms.
@catsalad The trinomial name for the Northern (Eurasian) Lynx is 'Lynx lynx lynx'.
@sindarina @catsalad how many trinomial names are there? I know there is also a 'Gorilla gorilla gorilla' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_lowland_gorilla
@bagder You beat me to it lol @sindarina @catsalad
@bagder @sindarina @catsalad Buffalo buffalo buffalo
@bagder @sindarina @catsalad no buffalo buffalo buffalo though?
@sindarina @catsalad of course there is a Wikipedia page for this already and now I found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_triple_tautonyms
@catsalad Moles have secret extra thumbs https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-14108202
@catsalad paint is older than homo sapiens.
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Also glue. Neanderthals invented it.
@catsalad Pigeons can recognize and remember individual faces of more than 10 different species including cows and humans. So you’d better make a good impression! 
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Crows can not only remember your face but if you are mean to them, they tell their friends about you and they all gang up to make your life miserable.
https://www.birdfact.com/articles/do-crows-remember-faces
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