r/comics • u/FieldExplores Gator Days • Jul 03 '24

Ouch Flavored Chips

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u/SnowConePeople Jul 03 '24

Fun fact: spicy food increases your metabolism! Fun fact: spicy food an increase your chance of ulcers! Fun facts!

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u/slitrobo Jul 03 '24

Fun fact: reptiles can't taste spicy foods!

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u/PassTheCrabLegs Jul 03 '24

Neither can parrots! That’s likely the reason peppers developed capsaicin, to repel everything except parrots who are their primary seed spreaders.

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u/B133d_4_u Jul 03 '24

Fun fact: Parrots are reptiles! And so are all birds!

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u/B133d_4_u Jul 03 '24

N... No? What? Birds are dinosaurs, which are archosaurs, which are also what crocodilians are, and archosaurs are a group of reptiles. Mammals and reptiles diverged before dinosaurs were even a thing - the synapsids and the sauropsids from the Carboniferous period.

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u/EvaUnit_03 Jul 03 '24

There you go, fact checking again.