• jol
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    8 hours ago

    Also, people are born every day, and some just go on with their lives never learning about random facts like these. Every day, someone is one of the lucky 10k.

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      8 hours ago

      Man, imagine seeing a field of fireflies IRL for the first time, if you had never heard of them before! That would be pretty mindblowing.

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        I knew about them but didn’t see them well into adulthood. It’s underwhelming

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          I feel like fireflies have to be pretty perfectly whelming? like on the level of a swarm of pretty butterflies: cool, but not that cool.

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            I don’t know man, I’ve seen an actual swarm of butterflies (it took days for them to fly through) and it was pretty fucking awesome.

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            I think it’s just because the only idea I had was from cartoons. They don’t exist where I’m from.

            They are still eery and cool though.

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          Really? I’m a seasoned adult-er, and I still get a little flicker of wonder when i see those lights floating in the field behind my house on summer evenings.