• mateomaui@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    A fun fact about taste for you - there is actually no such thing as a ‘taste map,’ or the idea that different areas of the tongue result in you tasting different things. At most, there’s just different regions of sensitivity to taste!

    Always thought this was weird and didn’t make sense to my tongue.

    You might’ve been taught that lemmings are known to commit suicide because they’re just that unintelligent. Turns out, this isn’t true - they’re smart enough to stay alive!

    I blame the video game.

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      1 year ago

      Blame Disney, they’re the one who funded the “documentary” about them.

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          1 year ago

          The game was made as it was because of the myth perpetuated by the documentary. On Linux, there was no lemmings game, it was called pingus and it was penguins you killed instead (there may have be a lemmings for Linux, but the first version of Linux I installed myself had pingus already installed).

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              1 year ago

              i don’t think you do.

              hey! somebody post an even longer paragraph including the history of lemmings and at least 3 barely related anecdotes.

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                1 year ago

                I actually do understand the point, my responses now are specifically to annoy know-it-all assholes who insist I don’t get it.