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Biology Class (mander.xyz)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (12 children)

The original, unmodified text, for those who care:

The horngus of a dongfish, which is attached by a scungle to a kind of dillsack (the nutte sac).^[420]^

[–] [email protected] 91 points 3 months ago (4 children)

This is also fake. Those are all incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

This is a joke

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

We just haven't found the real one yet.

It's prophetic

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Please don't take this from me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Be better about recognizing obviously fake shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Be better at having a sense of humor, chum.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Correct.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/horngus-of-a-dongfish/

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Aww nuttes

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

The current Wikipedia entry doesn't even have the same picture (text checks out though).

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