There is a point in the middle of the ocean called Point Nemo where you would be closer to someone on a space station than the next closest person on land

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the northern flicker is the US’s only ground feeding woodpecker! and the east coast ones have yellow feather shafts, while the western ones have red! this is because of their diets, but it’s unknown why it affects the feather shafts and not just the feathers (like in flamingos) you can also tell their sex by if they have a mustache or not! (literally, the males have a patch of black (or red, for west) feathers under their beak) here is a picture of an eastern male!

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Genetic studies of tardigrades show that at some point in their evolutionary history they just deleted the middle part of their body

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platypus used to be a cryptid before its discovery. scientists believed it was a hoax and that someone had seen a duck bill onto some other poor creature. but nope, it was real! they also lay eggs and have a venomous spur on their foot that they can and do use

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I’ve was bit by a squirrel once. That’s all I got.

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