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Nomomommy t1_j9ldtes wrote

Reply to What makes bats a good disease vector? by JustJustinInTime

It's because they're mammals that fly. They need super-powered mitochondria to create enough energy to fly, but there's some sort of trade-off to that which involves the immune system. The solution to this trade-off is for the immune system to function while harboring all these viruses in a way that's harmless to the bats. If you want to know all the specific sciency details involved, there's videos about it on YouTube.

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Nomomommy t1_j9ldrrk wrote

Reply to What makes bats a good disease vector? by JustJustinInTime

It's because they're mammals that fly. They need super-powered mitochondria to create enough energy to fly, but there's some sort of trade-off to that which involves the immune system. The solution to this trade-off is for the immune system to function while harboring all these viruses in a way that's harmless to the bats. If you want to know all the specific sciency details involved, there's videos about it on YouTube.

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Nomomommy t1_j277293 wrote

Reply to comment by Morall_tach in TIL that the narrative that Coca-Cola designed the modern Santa Claus as part of an advertising campaign is not true, because Coca-Cola did start using Santa in advertising in 1933. But Santa had been portrayed almost exclusively in red from the early 19th century by giuliomagnifico

Just gonna throw this in: reindeer love Amanita Muscaria mushrooms (the famous red one with white dots that smurfs live in?) and they get fuuuuucked up. That mushroom is so potent, Shamans in Scandinavia and Siberia would feed them to their deer, collect the urine, boil it down and drink it and also get fucked up. That's my flying reigndeer reference.

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Nomomommy t1_j00crcf wrote

Reply to comment by Minuted in Bird loves his human. by -birdbirdbird-

My neighbor had a lovebird who became my special friend. He'd run after me if I went to the bathroom or start yelling when I left. He'd come to my house and take showers with me or walk around on me while I napped. We'd groom each other and hang out. All cool, nothing that weird. But once he was getting all interested in my socked foot and my neighbor said, "careful...he might do a little bird jizz on your foot if you don't look out". So take from that what you will.

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Nomomommy t1_itivm5s wrote

Reply to TIL that the famous author Thomas Pynchon has avoided publicity during his fifty-year career to the point that almost all known photos of him are from the 1950s. However, he voiced himself in two episodes of The Simpsons, where his dialogue consisted entirely of puns on the titles of his books. by IHad360K_KarmaDammit

I swore and threw "The Crying of Lot 49" across the room when I finished it and then yelled at Thomas Pynchon in a dream. Pynchon puns pack a punch.

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