• leisesprecher@feddit.org
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    8 days ago

    I recently learned that mastodon (the animal) literally means breast tooth, because some thought their teeth (or tusks?) looked, well, breasty?

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      Get this. You have a structure in your brain called the “mammillary bodies”. It’s because it looks like a pair of tits.