• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    trivia: the cottonmouth is so-called because of the startlingly white interior of its mouth, which it opens wide as a warning to leave it alone.

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      Definitely not because its bite is plush and soft, like a mouth full of cotton. That’d be a dangerous assumption one could make. 😬