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[Ava @ava_noon]

when you read the first page of your exam and realize you know nothing 😳

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Dolly Parton approval ratings by state

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.

The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and botulism in the carcasses they eat. A flock strips a cow to bone in about 45 minutes.

India had 50 million of them. Free sanitation at national scale, in a country where religious custom means most cattle die natural deaths and every dead cow becomes a carcass someone has to deal with.

Then the patent on diclofenac expired in 1994. Farmers started using the cheap painkiller on livestock. Trace amounts left in a carcass cause kidney failure in vultures. Within a decade, 50 million birds fell to a few thousand. The fastest collapse of any bird species since the passenger pigeon.

The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs took the vultures' place and brought rabies with them. Rotting remains leached into waterways. In districts where vultures once thrived, human death rates rose more than 4 percent. Economists at Chicago and Warwick put the toll at 100,000 extra deaths a year and $69 billion in annual damages.

So yes, the goofy bird sprinting down the walkway is adorable. It's also a disease firewall that evolution spent millions of years building and one generic painkiller nearly erased in ten.

[Fav @Favwontmiss]

ADHD is remembering a birthday a week in advance, forgetting on the actual day, feeling too much shame to text, buying a late gift, never mailing it, and letting the guilt haunt you for a decade

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

When I tick off one thing from my to do list

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Whoever dubbed this is great! 😂😂

[Sassington, M.C. @MissSassbox]

if you really wanna honor Ozzy Osbourne in a way he would love beyond his music... please, enjoy a burrito in his memory. those who remember, know this for sure. the man loved a good burrito. 😭🌯

📸: from MTV's "The Osbournes"

[MOZZARELLA @tootimebitch]

Big things happening on r/bald !!!

[girly&wordly @Brieyonce]

If I was waken up by a pony playing a keyboard after surgery I would assume I passed away

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

this tortoise has more hobbies than me

[˚꒰ა ℓavender mooni ໒꒱ ˚ @lavendermooni]

Me at work

[just a @F466OT]

Got my first “the usual?” at my favorite coffee shop

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Rat driving cars.

“But they are not intelligent”—The Experts

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

oh my god

[ultramarathon thanker🇵🇸 @christweetsllc]

The duality of man

[𝒄𝒊𝒓𝒆 @BrowseHorror]

Horror movies releasing in September and where to watch them (buckle up cause its a long one) pt. 1

a thread🦇:

[Ash @H1TWOM4N]

This is important to me

[𝓜𝐚𝐲𝐡𝐞𝐦 🥀 @mayhembygaga]

Gaga throwing packets of popcorn to the audience and saying “enjoy the f*cking show” ARE WE BACK IN 2010???