abouttocomealive

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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

-- GNU Sir Terry Pratchett

https://blogs.iu.edu/sciu/2023/05/06/the-longest-sperm-on-earth/

Apparently the female seminal receptacle is also very long. In fact, the increasing length of this receptacle is one of the explanations for the extreme sperm length.

Drosophila females have evolved to fertilize their eggs with particularly long sperm. Only large, healthy males are able to produce large quantities of gigantic sperm, and if a female reproduces with healthy males, her offspring will have genes that make them healthy, too.

Recently learned it's actually "Eagles", not "The Eagles". (For example, take a look at the album covers. There are also documentaries in which they talk about it.)
But even the band themselves will use "the" when it grammatically makes sense. So confusing.

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"Hints" is another name for "charades"

The sun does not cease to exist at night.

This is amazing! I randomly selected somewhere in the middle, and the driver had to jump out of the tram to extinguish a fire and quickly jump back in to carry on.

Rule 1: Do not act incautiously when confronting little bald wrinkly smiling men!

Not a city builder / house builder, but Planet Zoo might scratch that itch. Takes a bit to really learn the building mechanics, but people can build amazing things in it.

"Light thinks it travels faster than anything, but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."

  • Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett

I definitely did not think it was a rocket without ever really looking at it closely.