xkcd: Snake Facts

http://xkcd.com/1398/

created by ani625 on 23/07/2014 at 04:53 UTC

248 upvotes, 9 top-level comments (showing 9)

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Comment by whoopdedo at 23/07/2014 at 05:34 UTC

99 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Not this again. How do I unsubscribe?

Comment by Ian_Itor at 23/07/2014 at 08:04 UTC*

71 upvotes, 7 direct replies

Fun fact: A human's digestive system is actually not the "inside" of a human. It is a tunnel through a human. So If we eat food, it doesn't technically get inside us, but is still outside!

Edit: Bonus picture of how my Biology teacher explained this to us.

Comment by xkcd_bot at 23/07/2014 at 04:54 UTC

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1: http://m.xkcd.com/1398/

Direct image link: Snake Facts

2: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1398

For science! (Sincerely, xkcd_bot.)

Comment by FerretDude at 23/07/2014 at 05:02 UTC*

40 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Sort of like how if you stacked all the elephants on earth on top of eachother, you'd have a stack of all of the corpses of the former elephants on earth

Comment by mao_neko at 23/07/2014 at 04:59 UTC

20 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Brazil, Peru, and Chile? That's a long snake!

Comment by Turpentine01 at 23/07/2014 at 09:12 UTC

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That had the most disconcerting alt text I've read in a while

Comment by [deleted] at 23/07/2014 at 07:54 UTC

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Comment by alphapi8 at 23/07/2014 at 10:38 UTC

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Reminds me of these[1]. Loved this webcomic... if you can call it that.

1: http://bizarrewebcomic.tumblr.com/tagged/fantastic-world-of-nature/chrono

Comment by zodberg at 23/07/2014 at 10:40 UTC

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MOTHERFUCKIN' SNAKES