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Largest tongue circumference (male) 👅 12.19 cm (4.80 in) by Dante Barnes 🇺🇸 inferno_arts_ #tongue #humanbody #guinnessworldrecords #officiallyamazing

Today's word of the day is: Flamfoo. 💫⁠ ⁠ #accessibility text: Graphic image of a pen and an index card with text on it that reads: Flamfoo: An old Scots dialect word for a gaudily over-dressed woman. It derives from flamflew, a 16th-century word for anything useless or trifling.

Drinking greater than seven units of alcohol weekly is associated with iron accumulation in the brain. And higher brain iron is linked to poorer cognitive performance.

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On #ThisDayInHistory at the 1936 Olympics, African American track star Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal of the Games in the 4x100-meter relay. With his medals, he was the star of the Berlin Olympics. Although only 23, Jesse Owens retired from amateur competition shortly after the Berlin Olympics to capitalize on his fame. To learn more about Jesse Owens, visit the link in our bio. 🎥 Jesse Owens at Berlin Olympics; 1936

Are you satisfied with your life right now? If the answer is no, that’s 100% OK. Many people don’t figure out who they really are — or what they want to do with their life until much later. That was the case for TV personality, author and self-declared “late bloomer” BevySmith, who decided to embark on a new path at age 38. After years of hard-earned lessons on authenticity, confidence and more, Smith came to the TED stage earlier this year at age 55 to proudly proclaim “that it does, in fact, get greater later.” Want to hear more insights from Bevy Smith on how to embark your own journey to self-discovery? Visit the link in our bio to watch her full talk.⁠ ⁠ #meme #TEDTalks #TEDTalk #selfimprovement #instagood

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Meet the largest carnivore on Madagascar: the fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox). This close relative of the mongoose feeds on birds, reptiles, and even lemurs. It uses its long tail for balance when chasing prey through the trees. Don't make this mammal angry: when aggravated, it releases a pungent odor from its scent glands. It also uses scent to mark its territory and possibly to signal reproductive status. Photo: Cloudtail the Snow Leopard, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr #AnimalFacts #fossa #animals #Madagascar #mammals #CoolAnimals #nature #dyk #FactOfTheDay

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Mark Twain playing pool circa 1900. #BilliardsDay 🎱

This wouldn’t have happened without the writer’s strike. #BreakingBad

Did you know? Some species of sponges are among the oldest and longest-lived animals on Earth! Research has found that certain sponges can live for thousands of years. There are more than 5,000 species of sponges (phylum Porifera) around the world. They come in many shapes and colors—and they have no true organs or tissues, just reproductive, feeding, and skeleton-building cells. They are hollow, taking water and tiny food particles in through small pores in the body and passing water out through a large central hole, the osculum. Photo: Nhobgood Nick Hobgood, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons | Tube sponge (Callyspongia sp.) pictured #dyk #NaturalHistory #nature #ocean #OceanLife #coral #CoralReef #MarineLife #MarineBiology #animals #AnimalFacts