Tell me a "Fun Fact"
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@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
@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
@bagder @sindarina I just found that page as well!
Much bigger list than I was expecting
@bagder @sindarina @catsalad no buffalo buffalo buffalo though?
@bagder @sindarina @catsalad Buffalo buffalo buffalo
@catsalad Moles have secret extra thumbs https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-14108202
@catsalad paint is older than homo sapiens.
@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! 
@hauptstadttauben
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
@catsalad
@catsalad the Baltic Sea is not seawater. It's brackish, so river species live amongst ocean species
@catsalad@infosec.exchange the citric acid used to sour food and beverages does not come from lemons but from black mold (Aspergillus niger).
@catsalad banks issue customers "cards"
"card" spelled backwards is "drac"
"drac" is Romanian for devil
banks are the devil's agents on this world!
"card" spelled backwards is "drac"
"drac" is Romanian for devil
banks are the devil's agents on this world!
@catsalad To some people, both "fun" and "fact" are 4-letter words.
@catsalad We use only one nostril at a time, and we change every couple of hours
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_cycle
