# Interesting stuff you've seen today!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 29, 2017, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-stuff-youve-seen-today/787661 "2017-05-29T18:12:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-stuff-youve-seen-today/787661/1 "2017-05-29T18:12:16Z")

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Let’s have a happy, upbeat thread to distract us from rain and politics and sick pets and all those other reasons not to get up in the morning!

My brother found a giant black beetle in the house, which was pretty cool. It was an inch long. I’m almost certain it’s a darkling beetle, but Professor Google is monstrously unhelpful when it comes to identifying the eighty bajillion different types of darkling beetle. Anyhoo, it looked like [this](http://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/38402.jpg), more or less, and I think it’s the second-largest beetle I’ve seen on my property. Awesome, right? 🙂

So what have you seen today?

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-stuff-youve-seen-today/787661/2 "2017-05-29T18:19:56Z")

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We have hummingbirds, and YouTube popped up a [snoring hummer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uEfmQt34Nc) on my phone.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-stuff-youve-seen-today/787661/3 "2017-05-29T18:44:46Z")

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In keeping with the theme, I saw a huge lizard on top of one of the fence posts. Probably 8 or 9 inches long, body the size of a hot dog.