The Glint of the Rail

Hannibal and Will licking their lips

“The other [scene that stands out above the rest] involved a handsome man, asking a dancing couple if he could cut in. The female partner, expecting his attention, agrees, only to see him dance with her male partner. Jolson then flaps his wrist and says, “Boys will be boys. Woo!”. This scene almost caused the Production Code to reject the film, and was featured in the opening scenes of the documentary film The Celluloid Closet (1996).”

• That sea urchins walk around and have mouths with teeth on their undersides
• That corals are related to jellyfish
• Barnacles being related to crabs and shrimp
• Ants being an offshoot of wasps
• Termites being totally unrelated to ants and all similarities just being convergent evolution (they're actually a group of cockroaches, but even science didn't know that part until a few years ago)
• Starfish having an eye at the end of each arm
• That the bodies of ticks and mites are also their heads, essentially big heads with legs (they even frequently have eyes way up on "the body")
• Sperm whales have no upper teeth, and also their bodies are flat from the front
• Goats also having no upper (front) teeth
• Tapeworms having no mouth at all and just absorbing nutrients over their entire body surface
• That flies are bigger pollinators than bees
• That moths are bigger pollinators than bees
• That wasps are just as important pollinators as bees (more important to many groups of plants) and when we say they're "less efficient" at it we just mean individually they get a little less pollen stuck to them.
• That honeybees are nonnative to most of the world and not good for the local ecosystem, just good for human agriculture
• That earthworms are also nonnative and destructive to more habitats than the reverse
• There being no hard biological line between slugs and snails; all slugs aren't necessarily related to each other and there are gastropod groups where some have shells and some don't
• That ALL octopuses (not just the blue ring) have a venomous bite
• Most jellyfish and sea anemones being predators that eat fish
• "Krill" being shrimp up to a few inches long and not some kind of microbe
• Blue whales therefore being the deadliest predators to ever evolve as they eat up to several million individual animals per day
• That krill are still "plankton" because plankton refers to whatever animals, algae and other organisms are carried around by the sea's currents, not to any particular group of life or a size category
• Fungi being no more related to plants than we are, and in fact more like a sibling to the animal kingdom if anything
• Venus fly traps being native to only one small area of North America in all the world
• Parasites being essential to all ecosystems
• Leeches not having a circular ring of teeth anywhere
• That algae is not a type of plant
• That most seaweed is just very big algae
• That enough wood ends up in the ocean that plenty of sea life evolved to eat only wood
• Speaking of which the fact that the "ship worms" that make tunnels in wood are just long noodly clams
• Butterflies technically just being a small weird group of moths we gave a different name to
• That insects only get wings once they reach maximum size and therefore there can never be a younger smaller bee or fly that's not a larva
• Spiders not being any more likely to kill their own mates/young than just a cat or dog might, for most species maybe a lot less often?

• Wood has evolved more than 100 times
• Eyes have evolved more than 40 times
• Wings have evolved 4 times (so far)
• Wheels have evolved thrice