Pretty sure we are the only animals with pink rings around our mouth. It’s flipping weird.

It probably helps with verbal language understanding as humans often use mouth movements to interpret words (see McGurk effect). But I still think it’s weird.

Big pink rings.

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    They’re even more histologically related to each other than they are to anything else. Lips and anus look surprisingly similar under a microscope.