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Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disaster of 2023
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•The miracle of childbirthEnglish
0·2 years agoFor those curious, from Wikipedia:
Giving birth is difficult for female hyenas, as the females give birth through their narrow clitoris, and spotted hyena cubs are the largest carnivoran young relative to their mothers’ weight. During parturition, the clitoris ruptures to facilitate the passage of the young, and may take weeks to heal.
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People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•If it wasn't in an encyclopedia, you just trusted word of mouth.English
0·2 years agoIt’s funny - almost as much stuff was knowable, but we couldn’t be bothered to get the info. I mentioned in a different thread recently that, today, if you’re with a group of friends and someone asks what a platypus eats, someone will whip out their phone and answer in 30 seconds. When I was a teen in that same situation, we for sure could have ridden our bikes to the library to find out, but a question like that just wasn’t important enough. If someone suggested going to the library to look it up, we’d laugh at them. There were gobs of things like this that, if no one in the group knew the answer, we’d just shrug and move on.
They eat worms, larvae, shrimp, and crayfish, by the way.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is something really stupid you purchased that turned out far better than expected?
1·3 years agoMy wife and I always laugh when we catch ourselves tapping other faucets. The soap dispenser sounds like a good idea.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is something really stupid you purchased that turned out far better than expected?
1·3 years agoIt does! It runs for minutes without retapping, but not like ten minutes. Never really timed it, and only noticed when I was filling the sink up (it’s a big sink).
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is something really stupid you purchased that turned out far better than expected?
1·3 years agoHere’s an odd one my wife and I were just talking about. Some years ago, we were redoing our kitchen and the contractor told us to go buy the kitchen faucet we wanted. We went off, looked at several, and picked the one we thought looked the best with what we were doing.
When the contractor went to install it, he opened the box and a battery pack fell out. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why a faucet would need batteries. It turned out that you can turn it on and off by touching it anywhere (handle, faucet itself, whatever), you just leave the physical handle open and set where you want it, then you can touch on and off. I thought it was the dumbest thing ever and we’d never use it.
Flash Forward to now and it’s one of the most used conveniences we’ve ever bought. All those times your hands are covered in raw meat or other cooking mess? Just touch the faucet with your elbow. Rinsing a bunch of veggies one at a time? Tap on, tap off. It works flawlessly, unlike those touchless ones at the airport: no delay and works every time. We will never have a kitchen sink without it - my wife wants them for the bathroom.



It’s in OP’s article