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Ewan McGregor said:
Nicotine can easily kill smaller animals
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Caffeine is a naturally-occuring pesticide. Y'know how it increases your heart rate? Now imagine what it'll do to an insect.
davids877 said:
Additionally, birds don't have a problem with spice, so birds still carry the seeds from pepper plants and deposit them elsewhere in their droppings.
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A lot of plants have seeds that do that. They've evolved to withstand going through an animal's digestive system, which is how they propagate.
 
Meat Target said:
Nicotine and caffeine are poisons meant to deter animals from eating the plant, as are chemicals that cause spiciness (humans have adapted to overcome the spice deterrent and obtain endorphin hits from it).
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Maybe even more than opposable thumbs, human omnivorousness may be the main reason we're dominant on this planet.

We literally eat anything. Other species desperately come up with ways of making themselves toxic so we can't eat them.

We decide that shit is tasty.

Oh here I am I'm a fish, I will produce an incredibly potent neurotoxin that kills anything that eats me!

Japanese people: mmmmm. . .fugu

Every pepper in existence: let's get so hot none of those dumb mammals will dare to eat us!

Dumb mammals: yummy!
 
Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
Tsar Peter III was mentally ill and had the mind of a child. He spent most days playing with toys, and once had a rat executed for allegedly eating two of his toy soldiers. His wife Catherine eventually had him deposed and killed and ruled as Catherine the Great.
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I think it should be known wmost of what we know of Tsar Peter III was written by his Wife and Successor so odds he might not have been like that or at least not that much.
Related Fun Fact: Tsar Peter III was the Russian ruler who pulled Russia forces from the Seven Years War and signed a Peace Treaty with Frederick the Great of Prussia and said event was also called the Second miracle of the House of Brandeburg because Prussia was losing REALLY badly until then

Malagor the dank omen said:
The first ever recorded strike in human history was in ancient Egypt. A squad of workers (don't you ever think jew slaves build the pyramids, filthy goy) got their payment in grain delayed and when they arrived to the construction place, they sat down and refused to work. The next day they were paid and returned to work.
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Well looking things up by that time (Ramses III) Ancient Egypt rulers had transitioned from using slaves to using workers who were not slave and in fact seen as valued members of society. (Also the Exodus happened 85 to 100 years earlier)

Fun fact: The ancient Egyptians used honey as an antibiotic and a topical ointment to prevent infections. They also performed complex surgeries, such as brain surgery
 
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Malagor the dank omen said:
The first ever recorded strike in human history was in ancient Egypt. A squad of workers (don't you ever think jew slaves build the pyramids, filthy goy) got their payment in grain delayed and when they arrived to the construction place, they sat down and refused to work. The next day they were paid and returned to work.
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Well looking things up by that time (Ramses III) Ancient Egypt rulers had transitioned from using slaves to using workers who were not slave and in fact seen as valued members of society.

Fun fact: Certainly! Here's a fascinating fact about Ancient Egypt: The ancient Egyptians used honey as an antibiotic and a topical ointment to prevent infections. They also performed complex surgeries, such as brain surgery
 
James Bond creator Ian Fleming was the step-cousin of Christopher Lee, who played the Bond villain Scaramanga.
 
Ready for your first dose of language autism this year?

The Germanic word for incubus/succubus/sleep paralysis demon is Mahr (German) or marra (Norse) which Anglicized would be merr, mair, or mare. This word is the second half of nightmare and it's of the same Indo-European (or Indo-Aryan) root as the Latin element mort - that being mer- which meant "to rub, wipe" and from there "rub out, wipe away, harm."

The Indo-Europeans (the Over-Ukranians who took over Eurasia on horseback) can also be called the Indo-Aryans or Aryans. This word comes from the reconstructed root arya- (noble, honorable) which in Sanskrit meant "Indian nobility" and from which we get Iran/Iranian. In the 1800s the key early Indo-Europeanist Friedrich Schlegel tied this root to German Ehre (honor) and related Germanic names, supposing the Indo-Europeans may have called themselves the Arra or such. The Nazis took this and ran with it, claiming MUH ERYINZ were North European and using Aryan to mean based. Because of that Aryan and its root were made taboo and stricken from academia. But if Schlegel was right (and there's a fifty-fifty chance he is) than Aryan is with us in everyday words like are, first/fore, rise/raise, early/orient. That's because the root seems to have originally meant "that which is" or "first" leading to the sense "that which comes up first" like "the morning, the east" or warriors who due to their rank or courage are "first among us, first to stand."
 
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In many public school emergency training for SPED, it is encouraged to shove severe autistic children in the cupboard under the sink (about ever classroom has this) during a school shooting situation. There is a logic, they will more likely enjoy the tight confinement and this with probably keep them quiet.
 
Did you know the Great Thinker (actual name, The Thinker) was a 20th Century French sculpture, not an ancient Greek one? I don't know about you, but I was shocked because all my life I knew the pose, the name, knew OF the statue but could have sworn it was a very famous ancient work.
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Haffhart said:
Ready for your first dose of language autism this year?

The Germanic word for incubus/succubus/sleep paralysis demon is Mahr (German) or marra (Norse) which Anglicized would be merr, mair, or mare. This word is the second half of nightmare and it's of the same Indo-European (or Indo-Aryan) root as the Latin element mort - that being mer- which meant "to rub, wipe" and from there "rub out, wipe away, harm."

The Indo-Europeans (the Over-Ukranians who took over Eurasia on horseback) can also be called the Indo-Aryans or Aryans. This word comes from the reconstructed root arya- (noble, honorable) which in Sanskrit meant "Indian nobility" and from which we get Iran/Iranian. In the 1800s the key early Indo-Europeanist Friedrich Schlegel tied this root to German Ehre (honor) and related Germanic names, supposing the Indo-Europeans may have called themselves the Arra or such. The Nazis took this and ran with it, claiming MUH ERYINZ were North European and using Aryan to mean based. Because of that Aryan and its root were made taboo and stricken from academia. But if Schlegel was right (and there's a fifty-fifty chance he is) than Aryan is with us in everyday words like are, first/fore, rise/raise, early/orient. That's because the root seems to have originally meant "that which is" or "first" leading to the sense "that which comes up first" like "the morning, the east" or warriors who due to their rank or courage are "first among us, first to stand."
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To add to this, to the best anyone can tell, the Aryans emerged out of the Ukrainian/Crimean steppe (source: The Horse, the Wheel and Language; it was extremely boring).

COPE AND SEETHE NEO-NAZI PUTINTARDS
 
In Chico, California, a law is on the books incurring a $500 fine for setting off a thermonuclear device.

In Greene, New York, it is illegal to simultaneously eat peanuts and walk backwards on the sidewalk when a concert is on.

The state law of Pennsylvania prohibits singing in the bathtub.

Texas law forbids anyone to have a pair of pliers in his possession without a permit.
 
Bamboo is a grass, not a tree.

You can think approximately 80 thoughts with the caloric energy of one Cheerio.
 
Meat Target said:
James Bond creator Ian Fleming was the step-cousin of Christopher Lee, who played the Bond villain Scaramanga.
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Albert R Broccoli the producer on the first couple of Bond films beat Ted Healy* to death and is descendent of the family that discovered Broccoli.

*one of the original 3 stooges
 
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