“While Kentucky doesn't have an ocean, it does have aquariums. In 2006, at least 12 people at Kentucky's Newport Aquarium were bitten by sharks while at an exhibit that allows visitors to touch the animals”
Keep in mind that this aquarium is just across the river from the zoo where parents let their kids fall into the gorilla exhibits.
80 0 ReplyHARAMBE!!!!!
18 0 ReplyIs this an example of American exceptionalism?
14 0 ReplyYes
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And yet it's an awesome aquarium and I highly recommend it. Including the 'touch a shark' part.
9 0 ReplyIt was surprising how sandpaper-ish they feel.
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63 0 ReplyThis is shockingly relevant
21 0 Replysharkingly*
16 0 ReplyDefinitely.
I also want to get the last 3 frames printed on a t-shirt. I have a young daughter, and it amuses me even more since that happened.
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I can suspend my disbelief to a point but I have just one question.
Where did the helium come from?
6 0 ReplyElectrolysis and then nuclear fusion.
10 0 ReplySCIENCE!
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They swim up the Mississipi
61 0 ReplyPeople don't realize that Mississippi is an acronym and all of the s's are for 'shark.'
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Inland
Sharks go
Sharking
Incessantly.
Sharks
Shark
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Places
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bull sharks are the only ones that go that far north right? they can maintain the salinity around them or some cool shit like that
7 0 Replypretty sure they're just the only shark that handles freshwater
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How do people not know this?
2 0 ReplyThat doesn’t explain New Mexico though.
2 0 ReplyIt was a diver feeding sand sharks at an aquarium.
11 0 ReplyThe Rio Grande connects New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico. Sharks can swim against the current.
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Yeah, this post shows how little Lemmiers understand about basic geography 🙄🙄
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NEW MEXICO?!?!?
19 0 ReplyIt's hilariously stupid. In 2005 one dude was cleaning an aquarium's shark tank and cut his arm on a passing shark.
https://sourcenm.com/2021/10/15/new-mexicos-shark-attack/
Still counts.
45 0 ReplyHow does one cut one's arm on a passing shark? Sharks are smooth as can be.
Edit: Never mind just read the article and he cut his arm on a tooth while the shark swam past open-mouthed.
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22 0 ReplyI'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missourah (had a shark attack)
17 0 Replyoh no i just released Kentucky too THE SHARKNADOES ARE COMING
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14 0 ReplyNon-midwesterners: surprised
Midwesterners who've had a fear of bull sharks since their friend told them about them when they were 5: see I knew it could happen
14 0 ReplyMy childhood nightmares of encountering a shark in a hotel pool can actually happen
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Could it be loan sharks?
12 0 ReplyBull sharks yo
12 0 ReplyThe chances of a shark attacking you on dry land are low but never zero!
11 0 ReplyThat's just basic quantum physics.
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NM, IL, KY, PA?
10 0 ReplyI remember reading the NM one happened in a aquarium, but it is still counted. Bull sharks do travel up the Mississippi River and tributaries and have been reported in IL.
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Just realized New York has a lot of shark attacks unless you're taking about loan sharks where the fuck do you get attacked by a shark in the toxic wasteland that is the entire state every water source is a pond full of garbage and other stuff you really don't want to touch
10 0 ReplyAt the New York Aquarium
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Ah, the elusive lank-shark!
10 0 ReplyOkay, but New Mexico??? We barely have lakes here!
9 0 ReplyYou rock! I'm spreading that information like gospel to everyone I talk to this week!
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Sharknado motherfucker
8 0 Replyflying in the air sharks
now that's some kind of horror
7 0 ReplyCould it be a zoo? No, that would be too easy
5 0 ReplyFlying street sharks are more likely
8 0 ReplyTrue, there are more streets than zoos
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Bull sharks can swim up freshwater rivers. In this case, the Mississippi for the central US.
I would guess Rio Grande for New Mexico.
3 0 ReplyNew Mexico's incident was actually in an aquarium, a commenter above posted a link.
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Sharks Georg, who lives in Missouri with his shark collection, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
5 0 ReplyBull shark attack in the Ozarks no? At least that is what all the locals claim haha.
5 0 ReplyTHERE'S A SHARK IN THE BATHTUB
4 0 Reply🎤🎤 Scary flying shark, scary flying shark, Careful you, he's out hunting in the dark 🎤🎤
4 0 ReplyOP probably: "What's that squiggly line between these landlocked states? Probably not important."
4 1 ReplyWashington State? Aren’t our waters too cold and with the seafloors all barren wastelands except a few kelp forests that somehow exist despite only getting sunlight for 4 months a year?
3 0 ReplyThere are great whites that have been spotted up off the northern coast of Vancouver Island in BC when the currents are right. I don't know about attacks, but the possibility is there.
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freshwater shark?
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