claim_arguably@lemdro.id to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agoWhat's a scientific fact that sounds made up but is 100% real?message-squaremessage-square259linkfedilinkarrow-up1210arrow-down15
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minus-squareⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down1·edit-210 days agoPigeons make milk.
minus-squareDanquebec@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 days agoWow! It’s controlled by the same hormone as in mammals: prolactin.
minus-squareⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 days 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-up1·10 days 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-down4·11 days agoI have nipples. Can you milk me?
minus-squarecockmushroom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days agoFine. Bend over so i can reach your prostate.
minus-squarenotastatist@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days 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.