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[–] [email protected] 78 points 19 hours ago (37 children)

Why would we need such a strong sensitivity to it?

[–] [email protected] 149 points 19 hours ago (21 children)

We evolved in the Savannah.
Rain means the watering holes are filling up, which is obviously good cause we need water, but it also attracts prey animals.

[–] DaCrazyJamez 60 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

This, of course, was summarized most eloquently at the zenith of human evoloution: the 1982 hit single by Toto clearly stating, "I bless the rains down in Africa."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Oh wow all this time I thought they missed the rains of Africa

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

"I guess the rain is down in Africa" for me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago

Some of those rains went unblessed because someone missed them.

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