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TIL The matador’s red cape does NOT need to be red to provoke the bull (the bull is color blind). The red color DOES hide splatters of blood from the audience during the finale stabbing.

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YpV6v TIL that dragonfly-like Meganeuropsis permiana which flew around 300 million years ago was 1.5 feet long with a wingspan of 2.5 feet. The biggest insect that has ever existed. If we cloned one today, it would probably suffocate because it needed the 30% Oxygen atmosphere present then (20% now).
VGep TIL A man named John Harrison has a job tasting ice cream. He has tasted samples of over 200 million gallons of ice cream and his taste buds are insured for $1 million
J5gv TIL There is an “Apple Tree Colony” in Ukraine across 10k sqft consisting of only one tree that spread naturally by creating roots from it’s branches (as a gooseberry shrub does). Scientist have not been able to reproduce this with other apple trees.
OGGj1 TIL Royal Blue, a messenger pigeon of King George IV, later on would get a medal in World War II.
6bEQ TIL at a Marine Mammal Studies Institute, dolphins were trained to turn in trash that fell into the pools in exchange for fish. One dolphin was smart enough to hide pieces of paper under a rock, tearing off smaller pieces from the paper in order to get more fish out of it.