My old boss was in the woods showing some ecotourists around and was describing this, and about how half the red millipedes are poisonous (covering their exoskeleton), and the half aren't. She said this as she picked one up to show the group. They asked how she knew the one she picked up wasn't, and she said "I didn't" and then showed them the redness the poison was causing on her hands. She didn't eat it, so it wasn't going to be a real problem, and she'd been in the rainforest enough to know what was going to cause her long term problems and what wasn't.

Oh look, there's George, wobbling down to the supermarket. . .

Do you supply aloe for that burn? Well done:)

You’d have to swallow it first.

Who says these things are new? It’s more like they were discovered more recently and being diagnosed more often.

it's a good fkn book!

That unironically cannot be real.

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A literal Rockstar. Amazing!

They don't "know" anything. Evolution is not like spending experience points in a video game to level up their Seed Size stat. Rather, mutation and random combinations of genes through the shuffling of sexual reproduction resulted in different results. The ones which tended to help the plants reproduce, like by making a seed a local animal carried to favorable locations tended to survive and those with genes which negatively impacted their odds of reproducing tended to not pass on their genes.

Fascinating! Added to the reading list. Thank you!

Did Quasimodo have no clothes and was therefore stuck in his house for the rest of his life?

If he hadn't died from syphilis by then he must have been immune.

I just got diagnosed at 36 and asked my parents if any teachers said anything or if they ever thought about it and my mom's response was essentially no and that "everyone had it back then" 🙄

I've yet to figure out the way to explain this to them. That just because we finally find a name and treatment plan for something, doesn't mean that it hasn't been there affecting people who have no idea... Or just that these things exist whether or not we have a name for them yet. The idea is on my head and makes sense, I just can't put it into the right words.

That guy should've been evaluated for ADHD

Lucky for him that Reddit did not exist at the time.

So that tells me that there were a lot more avocados in the wild than there are right now.

Now where's the Cessna copypasta?

The title suggests that because he didn’t have his clothes he wasn’t able to write his book because he was doing everything else. The word but should be in the title.

I was disappointed when I learned you couldn't actually hallucinate from licking toads

Cool bruh. Hope you can figure it out.

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Megafauna is a hell of a band name.

Gross but fair

Yeah but what about the gap in time where the majority of megafauna died off before humans began cultivation? I don't know how long that would be, but it seems like it would be a long ass time. How do the avacados propagate then?