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Oh neat, now I know Penis Worms have purple blood. And that Penis Worms exist.

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My exact thoughts. Penis worm? Time to look up how to actively avoid getting any penis worms.

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Chill, they’re called that because they kinda look like penises, they’re not penis parasites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapulida?wprov=sfla1

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Well now I’m concerned about the picture of my penis in the wiki article…

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You’re right. It’s the Sounding Worm that is the penis parasite, not Penis Worm. Sounding Worms are aptly named because they get inside the urethra and live there, and can even cause orgasm when excited.

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If that’s how their dicks looked like, they need to see a doctor.

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They’re easy to spot if you have them.

They’ll appear as thin squiggly lines running underneath your skin, usually a different pigment than your natural skin tone.

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Don’t dip your oar in Lake Katchakootie

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It’s the existence I really have a problem with.

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came for the outrage, then came for the outrage

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Ahahaha benis :DDD

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Knew about Haemoglobin and Haemocyanin, but never heard of the other two before. Very interesting.

Also, RIP Penis worms. Got a terrible name and have low efficiency oxygen transport.

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Interesting tidbit: from left to right, these are ordered by the efficiency of the oxygen transportation, highest to lowest.

Blue blood may be cool, but red blood is better for you.

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I guess I could google it but for the sake of the comment section is that from highest to lowest or the other way around?

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Highest to lowest. I edited it into the comment.

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Blue blood may be cool, but red blood is better for you.

=> Nobility is fashionable, but it’s healthier to be a peasant.

Also, from this table I learn that Europeans of ages past were ruled by octopodes.

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I remember one of my sister’s teachers were saying that human blood is blue when inside your body. “Just look at your veins!”

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Yeah one of the great lies we were all taught.

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This is yet another trick to make us look at penis worms :P

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Well “hey baby wanna look at something purple and full of blood” hasn’t worked for me yet

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This is clearly propaganda by Big Penis.

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Or at least by Big Penis Worm

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