Mine is that some people don’t consider viruses alive. These people are fucking stupid because giruses exist as do virophages. Like yes unalive things literally hunting other unalive things totally makes sense.

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    The only portrait ever displayed in Tianmen Square besides Chairman Mao, was Josef Stalin, on the day of his death.

    A cubic centimeter of white dwarf star material has about the same mass as five or six cars. A cubic centimeter of neutron star material has about the same mass as a large city.

    “Lizard” is not a biologically consistent grouping. Some species of lizards are more closely related to snakes than they are to other lizards.

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        No. Modern biology likes to classify groups based on ancestry. Any grouping which was based on a common ancestor of all known lizard species would also include snakes. Therefore, “lizard” is invalid in that sense, and only used informally.

        Same with “reptile,” since birds also descend from the most recent common ancestor of all reptile species.

        This is really hard to explain without a picture.

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          I like to think about how birds are dinosaurs and then watch a cute smol bird bouncing and dancing around and then think about how dinosaurs were probably really cute