Post * VB1o0 — Curious Curator

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TIL in 2020 scientists discovered a new organ in the human throat, a previously unknown pair of salivary glands called the "tubarial salivary glands".

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ADbP7 TIL Iceland was extensively forested before the first humans settled there. But within 500 years of their arrival 95% of woodlands had been cut down, leading to soil erosion, crop failure and the eventual abandonment of many farms.

4kb75 TIL plants can get addicted to Nicotine. At University of Calgary, there is an Atrium of which all the plants died after smoking was banned indoors during the 90’s, and the cause is attributed to Nicotine addiction.

Wl4L TIL that one of the two Lesbians to win the Nobel Prize in Literature was a man. Odysseas Elytis, who won in 1979, hailed from the Greek island of Lesbos.

ZpdDB TIL a beehive fence is a fence built to deter elephants based on their natural fear of bees. The fence is set up off the ground at chest height and contains hives spaced every 10 metres. If an elephant disturbs the fence, then hives shake and the bees become agitated, and the elephants are deterred.

E1J7p TIL Mario was given his cap in his first appearance in Donkey Kong because of the limited advances in video game graphics when the game was made. A red cap was added because programmers found it difficult to create the hair movement that would occur when the character jumped.