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HylicManoeuvre

@ HylicManoeuvre @mander.xyz

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  • TIL about the five modes of snake movement: concertina, serpentine, sidewinding, rectilinear and slide-pushing

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  • My favorite kind

  • TIL about the five modes of snake movement: concertina, serpentine, sidewinding, rectilinear and slide-pushing

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  • Boy do I have a post for you!

  • TIL about the three types of locomotion in terrestial vertebrates: plantigrade, digitigrade and unguligrade

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  • I will steal this))

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    TIL Bananas are berries that grow on giant herbs

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  • TIL about the three types of locomotion in terrestial vertebrates: plantigrade, digitigrade and unguligrade

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  • Damn, good point. Couldn't come up with a counter-example so just copy/pasted off of Wikipedia verbatim lmao Look out for tomorrow's TIL when I look up what that type of locomotion is called lol

    Actually, I'm really at a loss at what to call this paraphyletic group; tetrapods come to mind but they technically still include snakes...

  • TIL that Alabama has by far the highest amount of death row inmates by capita of any US state

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  • Fair enough, thought of converting it to 100k but was too lazy lol

  • TIL that Alabama has by far the highest amount of death row inmates by capita of any US state

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  • Fair enough. The data is presented very weirdly. I changed the post

  • TIL about Planet Nine, a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of the Solar System.

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  • You're very welcome

  • TIL about Planet Nine, a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of the Solar System.

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  • Also confer this very topical article

  • TIL about Planet Nine, a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of the Solar System.

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  • TIL part of the left supported eugenics during most of the 20th century

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  • Appealing or appalling? Big difference.

  • TIL about Silphium, aka laser, a plant that was used as a panacea in antiquity and the first species in recorded history to go extinct

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  • The main reason it went extinct...

    You'll have to elaborate on that

  • TIL about Silphium, aka laser, a plant that was used as a panacea in antiquity and the first species in recorded history to go extinct

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  • I'm glad you like my choice of words :3

  • TIL that "G.I." originally referred to galvanized iron

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  • Actually don't know who that is haha

  • TIL that "G.I." originally referred to galvanized iron

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  • So according to my understanding, all of those alternate interpretations are just that, (mis)interpretations of the original galvanized iron applied to people. So I'd say your specific interpretation is not more wrong than any of those mentioned.