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Armadillos are the main cause of the spread of leprosy in the southeastern United States.
For one hour each year, the clocks in part of Florida and part of Oregon have the same time.
Sharks have been around the galaxy - twice.
And prairie dogs are vectors for bubonic plague in the southwestern US! Park rangers try to vaccinate them with dosed treats they leave near the burrows.
I lived 15 years in Bay County, FL, which is the easternmost county in Central Time in Florida on the Gulf Coast. Weird enough that the county border is the time zone border, but a couple of miles inland it actually splits Gulf County in two - part of the county is in Eastern time and part is in Central.
Okay what's that one about sharks?
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The amazing thing about that is, sharks didn't even mention it. No bragging or trying to get special status. They are just so chill about it.
I don't remember how long sharks have existed, but they're one of the older animals out there. So the implication is that sharked existed while the solar system orbited the centre of the galaxy twice. I didn't think the earth had been around twice, I thought it was once-and-a-bit, but I'm too lazy to look it up - but that's what the're saying.
Directors Cut Sharknado.
It's mostly padding after the first hundred million years.
specifically holocephali, aka chimera and thier relatives back in ancient times, they just convergently evolved to look like elasmobranchs, they were the dominant cartilaginous fish at the time, before fleeing to the deep sea(where most the chimaeras live now). stethacanthus, helicoprion were all holocephali relatives.