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When humanity found out how long horseshoes crabs had been around, unchanging and perfect, they decided to name their divine human leaders after them.

That is why royalty are called ‘blue-bloods’.

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Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I was taught it was because nobility were the only pale Spaniards in the middle ages, so they were the only people whose skin showed through the blue color of the veins. So they claimed their blue blood showed their divine right to royalty.

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- threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  whose skin showed through the blue color of the veins
  
  Would this not be the other way around? Blue veins show through the skin?
  
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  - Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah, I wrote that poorly.
    
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- Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Blue-blooded means inbread.
  
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Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Sacre-bleu!

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