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hey Bunjy! I know that humans obviously come out on top with our big brains (and thumbs), but are there any other physical characteristics or senses that humans are the best at, compared to other animals?

sharks are famous for their sense of smell, and rightly so! your average joe shark can sniff out a single molecule of eau-de-fish-guts in up to 10 billion molecules of regular water, or one-part-per-ten-billion.

amazing, right?

well, humans can detect the compound that causes the smell of oncoming rain in concentrations as low as five-parts-per-trillion.

yes, trillion. with a t. 

early humans were so dependent on rain for survival that they specced a large portion of the olfactory processing part of the brain specifically into detecting when it was coming! which makes sense- you usually smell a rainstorm coming long before it actually arrives. 

you’ve had an amazing superpower all along and never realized it!

First thing I saw when I opened Twitter (x)

“So if little girls experience their menstrual cycle in 5th grade or 4th grade, will that prohibit conversations from them since they are in the grade lower than sixth grade?” asked state Rep. Ashley Gantt, a Democrat who taught in public schools and noted that girls as young as 10 can begin having periods.

“It would,” McClain responded.

Unbelievable. Link to article.

Take a conventially not cute animal and make it cute i.e. spiders, snakes

When you’re writing but can’t finish it off because suddenly words are impossible