claim_arguably@lemdro.id to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoWhat's a scientific fact that sounds made up but is 100% real?message-squaremessage-square258linkfedilinkarrow-up1211arrow-down15
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minus-squareⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29arrow-down1·edit-21 month agoPigeons make milk.
minus-squareDanquebec@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoWow! It’s controlled by the same hormone as in mammals: prolactin.
minus-squareⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoI figured this might surprise people. 😁 For the record though, I would like to discourage people catching pigeons and squeezing them to add milk to their hot morning beverages. Unless it’s a mourning dove. In that case, the homonym allows for it.
minus-squareDanquebec@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoYou just made me realize that people holding birds that can lactate in captivity for their milk isn’t an impossible scenario.
minus-squareMrSelfDestruct25@fedinsfw.applinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down4·1 month agoI have nipples. Can you milk me?
minus-squarecockmushroom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoFine. Bend over so i can reach your prostate.
minus-squarenotastatist@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoAnother reason why birds could not be real.
Pigeons make milk.
Wow! It’s controlled by the same hormone as in mammals: prolactin.
I figured this might surprise people. 😁
For the record though, I would like to discourage people catching pigeons and squeezing them to add milk to their hot morning beverages.
Unless it’s a mourning dove. In that case, the homonym allows for it.
You just made me realize that people holding birds that can lactate in captivity for their milk isn’t an impossible scenario.
Haha. 🐦🥛
I have nipples. Can you milk me?
I’M OLD GREGG
Fine. Bend over so i can reach your prostate.
Yes?
Another reason why birds could not be real.