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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Arctic and Antarctic don't mean anything about actual bears. They are named after the Ursa Major constellation. The absence of bears in Antarctica is a coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)

But isn't Ursa Major a bear?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

no, she's a major general in the forces, you hippie!

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

They are, in fact, the very model of a modern major general!
They have information vegetable, animal and mineral!

[–] Viking_Hippie 4 points 1 week ago

Dammit, beat me by 5 minutes! I tip my hat to you, good sir/madam/other 👌🎩

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