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The Squirting Cucumber Can Launch Its Seeds 40 Feet and 30 MPH

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One of nature’s most inherently hypersexual plants, Ecballium elaterium, better known as the squirting cucumber, weaponizes its reproductive system. It turns itself into a T-shirt canon of seeds, NPR reports. However, NPR didn’t quite phrase it that way. Three summers ago, Kiel University biomechanist Stanislav Gorb came back from Turkey with a strange gift for […] The post The Squirting Cucumber Can Launch Its Seeds 40 Feet and 30 MPH appeared first on VICE.

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