Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Are we the "Cold Ones" to our dogs? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Dogs run about 10 degrees hotter than humans, so do you think they regard us as the giant cold ones?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I was curious, too, because surely the blood would start clotting and whatnot, and while researching, I stumbled over this paper from 1916 which was a little too specifically what I had been searching for...

Trigger warning: Animal cruelty.
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1113/expphysiol.1916.sp000220