Thanks Hank Green.

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African Wild Dogs decide on when to go hunting by voting. If there is a supermajority of votes in favor of hunting, they will go out and hunt. If that quorum is not reached, they will stay home.

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Dingo Suffrage is my new punk band name

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We have a Lemmy instance for this kind of stuff: https://lemmy.world/c/fakebandnames

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Count me in.

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That’s awesome! Maybe they should teach us some of their tricks…

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How do they indicate yay or nah

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They sneeze!

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Amazing they can just like do that on demand like that! Sneezes are almost better than orgasms!

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I think it’s quiet or sneeze

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Another interesting fact: dogs also use sneezing to communicate, though not in the same way. I also easily trained my dogs to indicate yes or no by either licking their lips or not doing anything.

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If you have two arms, you have a higher than average number of arms.

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And if you have one skeleton in your body, you’re below average.

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Well now wait, if pregnant people have four (or more) arms, we’ve got to have more than half as many pregnant people as people missing one or more arms, right?

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And what about the 5 arms I have in my freezer?

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That is of you count them to be the same body. Genetically that isn’t so.

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Ha that’s a good one

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I’ve always thought the drummer from Leppard was below average

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In the movie “Catch Me If You Can”, the french police officer that arrests Leonardo DiCaprio who is playing a young Frank Abagnale Jr. Is Frank Abagnale Jr.

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Don’t know that. That’s kind of cool.

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Two, wasn’t it?

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Hydrogen, if left on its own long enough, names itself.

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That’s a wild way to think about the universe. Gonna steal this

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How do you mean?

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Over billions of years, hydrogen left on its own collapsed under gravity into stars, under went fusion, supernovaed, created all the heavier elements, formed secondary stars and rocky plants, evolved into creatures, which learnt chemistry and gave it a name. We’re all stardust + time basically. But we’re stardust that names itself.

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