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Apparently Lizards make venom, too It's been discovered that many lizards make venow much like snakes, but lack the delivery system. Before it was thought their bites were so prone too bleeding due to the build up of bad bacteria in their mouths (think the kimodo dragon here).

Edit: This also proves that yet more animals in Australia are posionous.

Unrelated to this, did anyone else notice that the History channel took a break from being all Hitler all the time last night to be all Hell all the time?

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So for reasons, mostly revolving around Radiant Dragon, I went into a "Ain't Mongols Neat" phase last friday, which mostly involved me geeking about Dels, and all the nifty little hats. My inner costuming geek was happy.

I read up a bit on Mongolian history, and got into happy linguistics bits. All well and good. yay Mongols!
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Then I caught a bit of Disney's Mulan on Sunday night...enough to see the dark terrifying Mongols who crush small children's toys. sigh. Disney !=historical accuracy and I know that...but..not sure how to say what I wanted to here, but it got me into a whole stereotypes vs. representation of other cultures thought line.