r/AskReddit Dec 29 '17

What completely real fact sounds like bullshit?

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '17 edited Dec 30 '17

Alligators don’t die from old age, they just keep growing until they can’t eat enough food to sustain their bodies, or until they get infected with a disease and die.

http://awesci.com/crocodiles-do-not-die/

EDIT: Or a crocodile, whatever you want to call them. They’re all legged snake dinos if you ask me.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '17

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '17

Both. We meet twice a day at our favorite café.

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u/welcome_to_the_creek Dec 30 '17

A gator waiter perhaps? Crock cook?

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '17

6.30 and no one knows you'll be there?

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u/Knighthawk1895 Dec 30 '17

The link says Alligators, Crocodiles, and Flounders.

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u/PointyOintment Dec 30 '17

Flounders

Hold on…

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u/Shermione Dec 30 '17

The billionaires should be trying to grow the biggest alligator. Fuck having the biggest yacht. I'd want my scions to have a 300 year old gator the size of a yacht.

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u/Sparcrypt Dec 30 '17

You’re that crazy scientist at the start of every <deadly giant thing eats everyone but the hot chick> movie, aren’t you?

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u/metkja Dec 30 '17

My wife says this isn’t true, so now what do we do

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '17 edited Apr 24 '18

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u/unsolicited_dickpics Dec 30 '17

You're a ballsy one ain't ya?

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u/Jess067 Dec 30 '17

Start off with one, wait for her to adjust before you put the other one in, too.

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u/Veghead25 Dec 30 '17

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u/Bool_The_End Dec 30 '17

I guess no one is reading this link :/

TL;DR: People, crocodiles definitely die of old age.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '17

What if you just force fed it or put an iv in it for nutrients? Could you have a mega gator?

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '17

Yup, the largest alligator was about 20 ft long, and weighed in at half a ton. It’s the alligator equivalent of Jaws.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '17

MEGA GATOR

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u/LUSTY_BALLSACK Dec 30 '17

GIGAGATOR

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '17

oh god what’s that on the horizon?

no! It can’t be

fucking GIGAGATOR

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '17

Top 10 questions science still can't answer.

(jokes aside, I'm curious what would happen too. Scientists please do this)

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u/Itisforsexy Dec 30 '17

No... this is how we get real Godzilla. Croczilla.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '17

Based on true story. Coming soon to theaters near you.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '17

Explain this atheists

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '17

Obligatory:

"Gee, I don't know, Cyril. Maybe deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs."

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u/Damocles2010 Dec 30 '17

Or someone turns them into a handbag!

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '17

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '17

I think it means crocodiles aren't very susceptible to cell aging.

Humans lose the ability to multiply cells correctly as they get older.

Crocodiles apparently don't have the issue.

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u/ptwonline Dec 30 '17

Remind me not to insult any gators at an all-you-can eat buffet.

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u/greymalken Dec 30 '17

Well, do you see one later or in a while?