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fun fact about the Diaspora canon: all known sophonts except humans (and later rimor) are immune to carbon monoxide poisoning* because they have different blood oxygen carriers, the most common being coboglobin and hemocyanin. naturally the other species make fun of humans for having hemoglobin instead, and so humans get sent stuff like this
*they can still suffocate from lowered oxygen percentage but they can tolerate well above our limit of 70 ppm CO
okay since the monoxide post seemed to be reasonably popular, here’s another take:
bones (and biology in general, but particularly bones) are frequent subjects of humor. every species has a unique approach to a skeletal system: humans and rimor have calcium phosphate + collagen bones, shyxaure have hollow cobalt carbonate + collagen bones augmented with carbon fiber, skae have chitin bones on the inside and the outside, and ziirpu just have a springy tube-shaped cartilage lattice. so even after hundreds of years of regular contact and cultural integration it’s still funny to have conversations like
“did you know humans have five bones in their EARS?”
“damn I wish I had bones in my ears”
“damn I wish I had bones”
“you do have bones and they’re bright pink you idiot, I don’t have bones”
“haha yeah boneless ziivor”
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GYATT
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