Fred's Fun Fact: Lizards That Shoot Blood From Their Eyes

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Fread Show is on Fread's Fun Fact, Fred's Fun Much.
I learned so much. If the point of Black Friday
Cyber Monday is to get me to buy stuff, really,
what it's accomplished so far today and Friday for that matter,
and over the weekend was to get me to unsubscribe

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to about everything. I mean, you guys, some of y'all.
I don't mean y'all, but I just mean, like, you know, collective, y'all,
some of y'all stores. Uh, you guys did your big
one and you abused my email over the weekend and
I unsubscribed and now I have no idea what's for sale.
But I didn't need seven emails in one day reminding

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me of the thing I already decided in the first
email I didn't want. But I mean, damn, this has
nothing to do with the fun Fact. I'm just sitting
here unsubscribing. Like that's how how violently upset I am
about this? Violently upset? I'm going I'm taking the extra Cly,
I'll just delete the email and be like whatever, it's fine,
you know, I'll just if it's a brand, I like,

(01:05):
I'll just delete it. Yeah, But if you email me
every day, three or four times a day for five
straight days. Now it's to the point where I'm going
to find the unsubscribed And when I go to unsubscribe,
by the way, don't send me another email telling me
that I unsubscribed. I know, I just did it, okay,
or that it'll take five to seven days for the
unsubscription to go through. I'm like, okay, this just stop

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these emails please, Guys are abusing me. Um, here we
go the fun fact today. Did you know there's a
species of lizard that shoots blood from its eyes. That's crazy.
It's called the Texas horned lizard. The blood is mixed
with a chemical that has a repellent taste, especially to

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common predators like wolves and coyotes. So these spike little
guys can aim the blood. It was surprising accuracy, and
it can travel as far as five feet. And if
that doesn't work, the lizard's covered in spice and it
can puff off its body, so the spikes protrude dangerously.
I would say it's the blood from the eyes that
would do it for me. I wouldn't get close enough

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for the spikes. I would think the blood from the
eyes would be like, ah, you know what, we're not
We're gonna go find something else to eat, you know
what I mean, We're gonna go. We're gonna go to
another predator or another prey or whatever. Like I'm all
set with that. I'm not getting close enough for the spikes,
but yeah, so there you go. There's a species of
lizard that shoots blood from its eyes. Yeah. It was

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that or an office coffee cup. Fact, and I thought
this one was more impactful. So more breadshell next,