Post * Z8doY — Curious Curator

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TIL if you feed canaries red peppers, they will change color.

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0wd4L TIL the glyptodon was a large mammal that lived in Americas until it went extinct around 8000 BCE. It looked like a cross between a beaver and an armadillo and was the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.

e0vED TIL that Ian Fleming invented James Bond’s signature Vodka Martini purely to create “an illusion of depth”, and hated the drink when he tried making it a few months later

8aGOK TIL that in 2007, Scotland spent six months of research and £ 125,000 to create a new slogan that would boost tourism. They came up with "Welcome to Scotland".

m1p1P TIL about the year of the four emperors it was the first civil war of the Roman Empire, during which four emperors ruled in succession: Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian.

ooVW TIL the first artificial insemination took place in 1884 when a med professor injected his unconscious patient with the semen of “his most handsome student”, unbeknownst to both the woman and her infertile husband.