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The ancestors of dragonflies, the protodonata, were the largest insects to fly the earth! some had wingspans up to 75cm!!! 🐛🐛

yes they poop like once a week by climbing down to the ground and using their stumpy tail like a shovel to dig a hole to poop in. That's actually when they are most vulnerable to predators.

Beetles acted as bees before bees existed. They would be the one pollinating plants and spreading around seeds.

When cats drink water, they’re not lapping up the water with the top of their tongues- they’re using the bottom of their tongues to scoop it up. When their pupils are dilated, dark-eyed people are generally less bothered by the effects or duration than light-eyed people. The mango flavor that’s used in candies and other sweets is based on the Alphonse mango, a specific cultivar.

Fun fact! Asbestos is a mineral. It forms when ocean floor sediment is pushed along the sea floor by a moving continental plate and then squeezed up between another one. Serpentine also forms in this way, a little bit higher in the layers, since the amount of pressure the materials are facing changes based on this, which alters how the atoms form together. It's also why diamond and Graphite are the same exact chemical formula, C, but so different.