For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some 'organic element' since I couldn't accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.

  • AOCapitulator [they/them]
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    10 months ago

    We humans are roughly as big compared to atoms and subatomic particles as we are small compared to the largest structures of the observable universe