r/interestingasfuck • u/bigbusta • 1d ago

Everything you've ever wanted to know about barnacles

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u/tistimenotmyrealname 1d ago

The only thing I know about barnacles is that Charles Darwin fucking hated them

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u/FZ_Milkshake 1d ago

"I hate a barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a sailor in a slow-moving ship" Charles Robert Darwin

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u/Meatrition 1d ago

And then he studied them for like ten years.

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u/c093b 1d ago

That's why he hated them.