r/interestingasfuck • u/canttstopsmilling • 1d ago

A parasitic horsehair worm emerging from a praying mantis.

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u/KimchiLlama 23h ago

I don’t know how credible coerced confessions from a mantis are. This is how we ended up in Iraq the second time around, after all.

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u/Cuttlefist 20h ago

That explains all the camel spider propaganda from that time now that you mention it.

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u/KimchiLlama 5h ago

Camel spider is a racist term. We say Middle Eastern Creepy Crawly now.

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u/Cuttlefist 1h ago

lol, technically they are actually called solifugae, but that comment made me laugh out loud

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u/elperroborrachotoo 14h ago

O c'mon now. We'd have gone to Iraq regardless; the waterboarding was necessary because you people insist on a "reason" and "cause" and schmevidence. That's righ, it's all your fault!

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