Being autistic is weird because I think I'd be entirely entirely immune to the maddening effects of witnessing an Elder God but learning that barnacles are arthropods rather than molluscs nearly gave me an existential crisis
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oldies but I love these dogs so much Im going to post them again
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Soap: hey google
Soap: what animal has the largest penis to body ratio?
Ghost:
Ghost: I am not your personal google machine
Soap:
Ghost: it's the barnacle
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Atlantic horseshoe crab encrusted with acorn barnacles. The barnacles will be shed next time the horseshoe crab molts
By: Fritz Goro
From: Invertebrates of North America
1972
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Adult Balanus barnacles settle on surfaces of spacecraft, reaching areas other plankton have not. However many are unable to contact appropriate surfaces to settle, and keep drifting across their whole lifespan in the larval stage (Nauplius).
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Never bring a girl I found while scrolling through gifs to a Half Life enemy fight
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Round 1 Match 13
Barnacle weirdness: "Longest penis"
Olm: "look at it like hello" "Other names for them include “baby dragon” and “human fish”. They can also sense electricity and live for about a decade without food!"
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