• lime!@feddit.nu
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    3 months ago

    i learned recently that this is a false premise; the frogs will get out when the water gets too warm for them. which imo makes its proliferation even more apt; it makes sense that they would, but we’ve so used to the narrative that we keep this factoid going without questioning it.

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      3 months ago

      Just like falling down when you get shot.

      Unless you’re shot in the legs or your injury would otherwise impede you from standing, you wouldn’t naturally fall down.

      However, movies and TV have drilled it into our minds that you fall from being shot to the point that we DO fall because we’re SO DAMN CONVINCED that that’s what happens!

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        3 months ago

        hmmm, like they don’t do a Hollywood fall, but they do often just drop. sack of potatoes style. there’s a lot of stuff in you that could make you stop standing if it got shot. it’s not guaranteed, but depending on caliber, it can be quite likely that they will fall. just straight down or in the direction of their existing momentum usually.

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          3 months ago

          I’ve heard high velocity rounds (such as rifle rounds) send a kind of shockwave through your body. Dunno if it’s true or not.