3 points

My bunnies love mint tho

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Haha one of the best uses of those wojaks I’ve seen

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4 points

Mouth cool!

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Hot peppers: haha poor mint wait what the fuck

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“Why would you eat me when I make you shit fire??”

Humans: Haha painfully burning mouth go brrrrrr

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We failed evolutionarily to adapt an immunity to capsaicin. But peppers are super good for us, they are packed with vitamins. So instead we evolved a dopamine response to it that makes them more tolerable and slightly pleasing. This is why when eating something spicy, the heat gets worse after you stop eating, because you stop getting the little dopamine hits that dull the pain. It’s also why people love spicy food, you actually get a little high, similar to a runners high.

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Not a chance. Peppers and the vast majority of humans still in existence did not interact for most of human evolution. Peppers are a new world plant and the humans who had the most experience and could have evolved along side them lost 90% of their genetic diversity when the Colombian exchange brought them a massive multi-disease plague. The return where peppers came to the rest of the world was in the 16th century. Not really enough time for evolution to guide people towards eating the plant. It’s a very short time on a genetic scale.

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55 points

Humans aren’t the only ones to do this. Many animals eat plants that don’t kill them but are deadly to their predators / parasites.

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36 points

The poison dart frog is like this!

When in captivity, they actually aren’t poisonous because their diet is different.

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Lol what is this article?

First

Poison dart frogs are not poisonous in captivity because they do not have access to the specific insects that they would eat in the wild which contain the toxins that make them poisonous.

Also

It is a common misconception that dart frogs lose their poison in captivity. In reality, they only lose their toxicity when they are exposed to certain chemicals found in captivity, such as cleaners and pesticides

Later

They acquire these toxins as they eat certain insects in their environment that contain them. So if a poison dart frog is ever relocated to an area where these insects don’t exist, it will lose its toxicity over time.

Finally… it’s fine if you’re not worries about getting poisoned

Some people handle their poison dart frogs with gloves, but this isn’t necessary unless you have an open wound on your hand or you’re particularly worried about getting poisoned.

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10 points

Poison dart frogs aren’t actuallu poisonous, unless they are, in which case, they are poisonous

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6 points

Yeah I thought I was having a stroke reading that article. Looks almost AI generated.

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Yeah I’m going to be honest. When I went to link an article, I just did a Google search and looked for the first article that wasn’t completely trashed with ads. Just briefly skimmed the article, not enough to tear it apart obviously.

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I’m seeing alot of these extremely low effort articles recently that are, for some reason, ranked very highly by google. AI spam probably?

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51 points

What’s truly amazing is how the frogs learned to make and use darts.

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11 points

Life, uh … finds a way.

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7 points

Stoneage frogs are just Grung, that’s how

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