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I grew up on a farm in Indiana, went through 4H, and I've never seen a duck penis, nor heard word of them til the internet got ahold of the news, and Indiana ac
by saalweachter 5y ago
I grew up on a farm in Indiana, went through 4H, and I've never seen a duck penis, nor heard word of them til the internet got ahold of the news, and Indiana accounts for 45% of US duck production. Which I also didn't know until googling it just now.
- chrischen 5y agoI’m not an ornithologist and I already knew about exploding corkscrew duck penises (via Wikipedia) for about half a decade. I also thought it was weird the article wrote it as if a researcher just discovered this information.
- saalweachter 5y agoWell, the article starts from the year 2000. I don't know exactly when I first learned about duck penises and labyrinthine duck vaginas, it's not precisely a 9/11 memory, but it was certainly after I left the farm in 2001 and could be entirely due to news reports about this researcher's research trickling out to the pop sci blogosphere.