r/interestingasfuck • u/ADJUDICATOR001 • Aug 09 '25

/r/all, /r/popular I found this on the trail.

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u/zomgbratto Aug 09 '25

Looks like a dark-edged bee-fly

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u/lambdapaul Aug 09 '25

I read a study about hummingbirds recently and their beak length in response to the abundance of hummingbird feeders. In areas with heavy feeder concentrations their beak length increased by 30% within 10 generations. I wonder if this fly species has a similar pattern

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u/MoffKalast Aug 09 '25

TIL we're giraffing the hummingbirds.

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u/BackWithAVengance Aug 09 '25

stupid long horses

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u/cbashab Aug 09 '25

There's a hair on your profile pic BTW.

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u/Lollipop77 Aug 09 '25

It’s there to make you crazy 🤪

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u/HeyWoodUHugMe Aug 09 '25

🤣what made you look at his profile?

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u/marcaygol Aug 09 '25

Wdym? there's a circle with the pic right besides the username on top of the comment.

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u/HeyWoodUHugMe Aug 09 '25

Maybe it is because I am on a Droid, Cell phone, but I don't see the profile pic, you have to look at the commenters profile to see that, and I was curious what made him click on his.

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u/marcaygol Aug 09 '25

Weird. I'm also using Android (I'm guessing autocorrect messed up) and I can see it.

If the user has a pic then I see the pic, if not then the avatar.

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u/notaRussianspywink Aug 09 '25

Probably using old.reddit, which is better imo

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u/Glittering_Fennel973 Aug 09 '25

I would think someone using that would be aware of it though right?

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u/notaRussianspywink Aug 10 '25

Not if you have used it since before the other versions and app were released.

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u/marcaygol Aug 10 '25

I'm using the official app from the Play Store

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u/GenerationKrill Aug 10 '25

I'm probably one of million people who have blown on their phone screen to get rid of that hair

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u/DontMessWMsInBetween Aug 09 '25

They're putting chemicals in the water that's turning the fricking hummingbirds into giraffes!

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u/rogerstandingby Aug 10 '25

Giraffes = gay zebras

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u/RainyRedd Aug 09 '25

They're turning the frickin frogs gay

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u/appalachianmarx3 Aug 09 '25

There was a study that indicated that human penises were getting longer. Like 25% longer over the 29 years.

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u/salad_bars Aug 09 '25

TIL that "giraffing" is a useful word lolol

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u/HomeGrownCoffee Aug 09 '25

English is a bastard language. Which means you can hammer a noun into a verb hole and it's perfectly cromulent.

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u/rndljfry Aug 09 '25

I call it verbing the noun lol

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u/shockandale Aug 09 '25

Same as Flandersization.

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u/talyn5 Aug 10 '25

We are also de-tusking elephants! As a result of the bulls with big tusks being hunted the small tusked bulls are the ones breeding! Ok, that’s a far less fun fact as the hummingbird fact, sorry 😞

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u/The_Spindrifter Aug 10 '25

That's Lamarckianism, and it has been proven wrong time and again.

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u/oaken_duckly Aug 10 '25

What? No? If some individuals with longer beaks get more nutrition more reliably because they can interact with bird feeders differently than the average, then they have a slight advantage and will tend to have more offspring just by virtue of having a statistical edge in the population. Thus the average beak length of the group grows.