Post * R5Vyw — Curious Curator

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TIL Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood. Two hearts pump blood to the gills, while the third circulates it throughout the body. Their blood is blue due to a copper-based molecule, efficient in cold, low-oxygen environments.

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r0d1 TIL San Diego woman, Concetta Antico, having ‘Super Vision’, unique genetic mutation, can see 100 times more colors than the average person. The genetic mutation causes one to gain a 4th color-vision cone in their eyes.

mxEwp TIL when babies first start emoting, they sometines turn away in the middle of smiling at you because they're so overwhelmed by joy that they can't handle all the emotion and have to regulate by looking somehwere else. This is known as 'Gaze Aversion' and is used to reduce their heartbeats.

R7BP6 TIL in 1947, MGM produced The Cat Concerto and Warner Bros released a similar Bugs Bunny cartoon. Both used identical gags, the same piece by Fransz Liszt, and similar endings. Both MGM and Warner Bros. accused each other of plagiarism, after both films were submitted for Academy Awards ceremony.

QYLM TIL: In 2015, Blake Shelton called fans of classic country music “old farts” and “jackasses”. Later that year, Willie Nelson named his tour the “Old Farts and Jackasses Tour”.

m1a9v TIL the original Machine Gun Kelly was a gangster and bootlegger in the 1920's. His most famous crime was kidnapping oil tycoon Charles F. Urschel, whom he and his gang exchanged for nearly $5 million ransom in today's money.