• Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    screenshot of a (fake) tweet by @UberFacts with text: "facts" posted on UberFacts are rarely factual.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_(snail)

    these two snails mated with each other instead, producing 170 right-coiled snails. One of the left-coiled snails later mated with Jeremy, producing 56 offspring, all of which also had right-coiling shells.

    they also omitted this crucial detail:

    Jeremy was named after the left-wing British Labour politician Jeremy Corbyn, on account of it being a “lefty” snail, but also due to Corbyn’s reported love of gardening.