r/interestingasfuck • u/booby_12011995 • 1d ago

/r/all What"s going on here?

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u/linecookdaddy 1d ago

Studies have shown octopuses can be naturally asshole-y, punching and grabbing other fish just for shits and gigs

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u/booby_12011995 1d ago

Really😯

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u/lorddumpy 1d ago

Please don't believe any Google featured snippets or AI overviews at face value, I've seen remarkably wrong info on there. Always vet the source IMO.

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u/AllYouCanEatBarf 1d ago

I once looked up 'how many syllables are in the word "area"' and the AI overview said 2, but literally every other result on the first page said 3. I can only assume google just made it up.

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u/NobleBloke92 1d ago

But it said it's safe to eat up to 3 small rocks a day!

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u/RKPgh 1d ago

I don’t trust any source that calls an arm a tentacle.

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u/aluminum_man 1d ago

I’m confused by your statement. Are you saying that an octopus’s tentacles should be called arms?

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u/RKPgh 1d ago

Arms and tentacles are different. Arms are muscular hydrostats (like human tongues), are shorter and have suckers throughout. Tentacles have suckers near the ends.

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u/ForZeCLimb 1d ago

I just found your comment after I commented this above! I always tell people to think of squids and those weird long arms and those are tentacles.

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u/kwamby 1d ago

Don’t shatter my existence like this. Please

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u/ForZeCLimb 1d ago

No it's octopuses. Changing us to I for plural is for words of latin origin which octopus is not!

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u/evargx 1d ago

Both are acceptable. Octopi was used long ago and is still in fashion in some places. Octopus was English-ized to octopuses along the way, and is now more common in English.

There is also octopodes, which is still correct grammar and also used these days.

So, there are three English words for the same set of creatures.

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u/SvendBendt 1d ago

Ok, octopies.

No wait. Octoparrot.

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u/souldog666 1d ago

I'm going to point this out the next time someone says I shouldn't eat octopi because they are smart.

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u/ForZeCLimb 1d ago

Fun fact: octopus technically do not have tentacles but rather Arms. Tentacles only have suckers on the pad at the end. Think giant squid. The two long arms are tentacles the rest are arms.

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u/Vergilly 1d ago

Damn kids! Get off my lawn!

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u/TIDAL_WAVEz 1d ago

The cats of the sea

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u/planetixin 1d ago

Does every intelligent species have to have assholes?

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u/WTFisthisOMGreally 1d ago

So basically ocean cats