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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I recently learned that mastodon (the animal) literally means breast tooth, because some thought their teeth (or tusks?) looked, well, breasty?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Get this. You have a structure in your brain called the "mammillary bodies". It's because it looks like a pair of tits.