Post * gMlX7 — Curious Curator

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TIL until 1996, NYPD cars were painted blue. They phased out the blue cars in favor of factory white, resulting in a $1 million savings. Light blue shirts were replaced with dark blue to "hide coffee and donut stains"

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Yp4ax TIL Giant aneater has razor sharp claws that can fend off puma, jaguar and capable of kill human in one slash. There were 2 occasions that hunters were killed because they attempted to “corner an wounded anteater”

XNKE TIL of the great auk, an extinct bird resembling penguins and living in the north. The last pair were strangled to death in the 19th century.

dDe6d TIL "keel" was the 1st recorded word in the English language. It was recorded by Gildas in the 6th century referring to the primary ships that the Saxons first arrived in.

myOR TIL that Stan Lee created an adult animated series called Stripperella where the lead character was a stripper superheroine/ secret agent voiced by Pamela Anderson

yQbGV TIL Spiders don't have muscles in their legs. They extend them using a system of hydraulics powered by their blood pressure. When they die, spiders' legs curl up because the blood pressure is gone.