Facts & misconceptions that should be common knowledge.

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Oct 14, 2014 4:39 AM #1254837
Alright alright, it hasnt been entirely proven yet, but my point is that the thought that the T-rex could even BE a scavenger came out after Jurassic park. So while it can go either way, it is not definitely predatory as well
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Oct 14, 2014 4:46 AM #1254845
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Alright alright, it hasnt been entirely proven yet, but my point is that the thought that the T-rex could even BE a scavenger came out after Jurassic park. So while it can go either way, it is not definitely predatory as well

Actually the debate about whether it's a predator or a scavenger is nearly a century old now. It's been debated for as long as it's locomotion has. The idea didn't come from Jurassic Park.
I don't think that the environment it was in would allow it to be purely predatory, but if there was a debate thread about this I would definitely argue towards predatory habits. To no effect however, neither sides have drawn a conclusion yet.
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Oct 14, 2014 4:47 AM #1254850
Another thing still widely debated, whether or not a meteor really was what wiped out the dinosaurs
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Oct 14, 2014 4:49 AM #1254854
Yeah but that is the most valid theory to date. That's not really a misconception.
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Oct 14, 2014 4:50 AM #1254857
I love talking about dinosaurs, I love it, when I was a child I wanted to be either a power ranger or a paleontologist.

My favorite dinosaur is the suchomimus tenerensis. Which means Crocodile mimic.
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Oct 14, 2014 4:50 AM #1254858
Alright alright I withdraw my T-Rex claim.

Fuck you Raptor and your people
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Oct 14, 2014 4:53 AM #1254865
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Alright alright I withdraw my T-Rex claim.

Fuck you Raptor and your people

Raptor and HIS people?!

Look, if anyone has the most arbitrary dinosaur knowledge it's probably me. I used to read entire dinosaur encyclopedias back to back as a child.
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Oct 14, 2014 4:54 AM #1254867
im just making a joke because you know, he's Raptor. A Raptor
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Oct 14, 2014 5:11 AM #1254901
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I love talking about dinosaurs, I love it, when I was a child I wanted to be either a power ranger or a paleontologist.

My favorite dinosaur is the suchomimus tenerensis. Which means Crocodile mimic.
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I think I remember having this conversation because I remember saying that suchimomimus was my favorite too. It was a bit of a turn off when I learned it only ate fish.
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Oct 14, 2014 5:15 AM #1254907
Yeah but prehistoric fish must've been fucking badass yo.

And it clearly fought giant crocodiles.
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Oct 14, 2014 5:25 AM #1254931
-Godzilla doesn't breathe fire, but it breathes a blast of atomic radiation

-crocodiles actually have tongues, but they just cannot move it.

-sharks aren't immune to all diseases. there are evidences that sharks have cancer tumors too
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Oct 14, 2014 11:09 AM #1255091
excessive ejaculation (more than once a day) is detrimental to your health: not only is there a loss of body fluids and certain nutrients involved in ejaculation, but also changes in body and brain chemistry (ie. hormones), which can have long term effects, including:
- fatigue
- hair loss
- memory loss
- blurred vision
- groin pain
- sexual exhaustion/impotence
- seminal leakage/nocturnal emissions

from a chinese medicine standpoint, ejaculation involves expelling some of your "essence", which is effectively your long-term storage reserve of ability-to-be-alive. note that the western biomedical symptoms listed above resemble that of ageing.
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Oct 14, 2014 12:54 PM #1255116
A lot of these are just turning into random fun facts than should-know knowledge.
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Oct 14, 2014 1:05 PM #1255121
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A lot of these are just turning into random fun facts than should-know knowledge.


At least we got the info that length doesn't matter, and fapping is aging.
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Oct 14, 2014 2:07 PM #1255149
That explains why I have such a bad memory of things. I often have this moments when I'm thinking about things, and then I forget it soon after. I'm like, wtf was I thinking?