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legs to die for (mander.xyz)

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[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 57 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Despite the name, no centipede has exactly 100 pairs of legs; number of legs ranges from 15 pairs to 191 pairs, always an odd number. (wikipedia)

wtf is going on with these guys

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[–] klemptor@startrek.website 55 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I mean, I have an odd number of leg pairs. You probably do too?

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[–] Syd@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

Woah

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 years ago

i mean, our arms are just fucked up legs, so technically we have an even pair of legs.

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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Four legs good, two legs bad.

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[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago

This sentence took me multiple attempts to parse.

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[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

yeah but the range of leg pairs for humans is (comparatively) much more tame. this would be like if humans had 1-12.3 leg pairs. and crazier still, humans were named something like “6 legged beings”

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[+] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works -15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Even stranger, the OP shows a millipede, not a centipede

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[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

That's very clearly a house centipede

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