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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (3 children)

“While Kentucky doesn't have an ocean, it does have aquariums. In 2006, at least 12 people at Kentucky's Newport Aquarium were bitten by sharks while at an exhibit that allows visitors to touch the animals”

Keep in mind that this aquarium is just across the river from the zoo where parents let their kids fall into the gorilla exhibits.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

HARAMBE!!!!!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this an example of American exceptionalism?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And yet it's an awesome aquarium and I highly recommend it. Including the 'touch a shark' part.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was surprising how sandpaper-ish they feel.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is shockingly relevant

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

sharkingly*

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

Definitely.

I also want to get the last 3 frames printed on a t-shirt. I have a young daughter, and it amuses me even more since that happened.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can suspend my disbelief to a point but I have just one question.

Where did the helium come from?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Electrolysis and then nuclear fusion.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (8 children)

They swim up the Mississipi

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People don't realize that Mississippi is an acronym and all of the s's are for 'shark.'

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most
Inland
Sharks go
Sharking
Incessantly.
Sharks
Shark
In
Parts of
Places
Inconceivable

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Really rolls off the tongue!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

bull sharks are the only ones that go that far north right? they can maintain the salinity around them or some cool shit like that

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's hilariously stupid. In 2005 one dude was cleaning an aquarium's shark tank and cut his arm on a passing shark.

https://sourcenm.com/2021/10/15/new-mexicos-shark-attack/

Still counts.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How does one cut one's arm on a passing shark? Sharks are smooth as can be.

Edit: Never mind just read the article and he cut his arm on a tooth while the shark swam past open-mouthed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know you already found the answer, but I want to add that shark skin is only smooth in one direction, if at all. The scales are made of V-shaped grooves, like their teeth. Their skin can definitely break yours if rubbed in the wrong direction at a fast enough speed.

I can personally vouch for this. I used to volunteer at aquariums. The sharks and manta rays were my favorite exhibits to work in. Penguins were dope too, but they smell.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missourah (had a shark attack)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

oh no i just released Kentucky too THE SHARKNADOES ARE COMING

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Non-midwesterners: surprised

Midwesterners who've had a fear of bull sharks since their friend told them about them when they were 5: see I knew it could happen

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Could it be loan sharks?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Bull sharks yo

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The chances of a shark attacking you on dry land are low but never zero!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That's just basic quantum physics.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Ah, the elusive lank-shark!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just realized New York has a lot of shark attacks unless you're taking about loan sharks where the fuck do you get attacked by a shark in the toxic wasteland that is the entire state every water source is a pond full of garbage and other stuff you really don't want to touch

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

At the New York Aquarium

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I remember reading the NM one happened in a aquarium, but it is still counted. Bull sharks do travel up the Mississippi River and tributaries and have been reported in IL.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, but New Mexico??? We barely have lakes here!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You rock! I'm spreading that information like gospel to everyone I talk to this week!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sharknado motherfucker

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

flying in the air sharks

now that's some kind of horror

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Could it be a zoo? No, that would be too easy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Flying street sharks are more likely

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

True, there are more streets than zoos

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Bull shark attack in the Ozarks no? At least that is what all the locals claim haha.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Sharks Georg, who lives in Missouri with his shark collection, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

🎤🎤 Scary flying shark, scary flying shark, Careful you, he's out hunting in the dark 🎤🎤

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