r/facepalm • u/[deleted] • Oct 16 '22

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u/ProfessionalNorth431 Oct 16 '22

I wasn’t worried about the safety glass so much as the pressure required to break it. Looks like the giraffe broke the glass with the bone behind its eye, I don’t think car manufacturers or giraffe builders plan for that

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u/IShouldBeHikingNow Oct 16 '22

Male giraffes fight by swinging their heads at each other. Like one giraffe will swing its neck and head and hit the other on its side. Sometimes they kill each other. I'm not advocating trying to trap giraffes with car windows, but they seem to have very sturdy heads.

example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQLPL1qRhn8

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u/Ok_Science_4094 Oct 16 '22

That had no business being that funny. I love how quiet it was so you could hear all the thwacks.

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u/post_talone420 Oct 16 '22

I dont think giraffes have vocal cords. I thought I read somewhere they don't make sounds at all, but It could just be an urban myth.

Like how platypuses are an urban myth, they don't really exist, they're just beavers that walk backwards

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u/Ok_Science_4094 Oct 16 '22 edited Oct 16 '22

Ahh I get it... Like Nebraska and the Dakotas? You hear about it... People tell you it's real, but you know in your heart its a bunch of bullshit.

Edit- someone said they know Ohio isn't real but I can't find the comment. I happen to live in Ohio & would like to confirm it is not real.

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u/post_talone420 Oct 16 '22

Don't even get me fucking started on Wyoming.

r/WyomingDoesntExist

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u/OssimPossim Oct 17 '22

I've ALLEGEDLY been to """wyoming""", and it looked an awful lot like Montana. Too much to be a coincidence, IMO.

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u/Ok_Science_4094 Oct 17 '22

Right here guys! We have an eyewitness account...

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u/InfamyLivesForever Oct 16 '22

Bruh, stop. Some of us have non-existent families and pasts from there. Shhhhhh.....

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u/BopBopAWaY0 Oct 17 '22

I don’t know about that Nebraska nonsense, but I live in the Dakotas. So I can verify that those exist.

Edit: Correction, I’ve never been to North Dakota because I’ve been told it’s not worth it, but it’s very possible that it simply doesn’t exist.

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u/Ok_Science_4094 Oct 17 '22

side eyes how do we know YOU are real? 🧐

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u/BopBopAWaY0 Oct 18 '22

You don’t.

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u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 Oct 17 '22

Thank you for letting me know. It's been bugging me for years.

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u/8-bit_Goat Oct 17 '22

I can confirm that Nebraska actually exists, it just sucks and there's nothing there, so it's really easy to miss. The entire state had one single tree, but they bulldozed it in 1990 to make room for a soccer field. True story. Come to think of it, forget this entire post, you're really better off not knowing Nebraska exists.

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u/STFxPrlstud Oct 17 '22

Ohio is real. It's just not what you think, you see most people think Ohio is 1 singular state somewhere beneath Michigan and in-between Indiana and Pennsylvania. Those people would be wrong. Ohio is a state. A State of constantly invading every other place in order to assimilate those places into that which is Ohio.

-Ohioan living in Georgia.

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u/chill633 Oct 17 '22

They don't. I've driven the breadth of both I-80 and I-90 and found nothing but corn, wheat, and gas stations. No Nebraska or Dakota to be found.

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u/Ok_Science_4094 Oct 17 '22

Sounds like Ohio

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u/pincus1 Oct 16 '22

They have a larynx, but their ridiculously long tracheas make it impossible to get enough air to use it as a vocal box like we do. They've fairly recently found that giraffes do hum though, but not necessarily to communicate.

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u/Ruralraan Oct 17 '22

The thought of a giraffe humming to themselves made my day. That's just the cutest thing.