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the animal so chill it skipped having a brain, mouth, or organs entirely
means A soft, porous material—originally the skeleton of a sea animal, now often synthetic—that soaks up liquid and is used for cleaning, washing, or wiping.
from From Greek 'spongia,' the name for the real sea creature divers harvested and squeezed dry. Latin borrowed it as 'spongia,' which softened over centuries into Old English 'sponge' and Old French 'esponge.' The same root quietly gave us 'fungus' (a cousin through Latin), because both were squishy, spongy things the ancients lumped together. Everything later—the kitchen sponge, the cake, the 'sponging' freeloader who absorbs your money—grew from that one squeezable animal.
- older than dinosaurs
- sponges predate them by hundreds of millions of years
- immortal blender trick
- pushed through mesh, sponge cells reassemble themselves
- no organs
- no brain, heart, nerves, or muscles whatsoever
- living straws
- some filter thousands of liters of water daily
- glass skeletons
- some build bodies from intricate silica fibers
sponge bob squarepants — cartoon character created by stephen hillenburg in 1984, lives in bikini bottom
bath sponge — natural sea sponge harvested commercially in the mediterranean, particularly off greece and turkey
sponge cake — light fluffy cake made with eggs and flour, traditional in british baking since the 18th century