Post * rRWOe — Curious Curator

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TIL: The longest known brooding period for any species on the planet goes to the Graneledone boreopacifica, an octopus that guards its eggs for an astounding 4.5 years.

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GBxj TIL Danny DeVito had his own brand of limoncello liqueur. And the lemon logo on the bottle was scratch-and-sniff.

rRE5e TIL scientists discovered a dinosaur tail perfectly preserved in amber. It is full of feathers.

QQME TIL In 1998, a 17 years old worked in the mail room at Interscope Records. One day on his own, he slipped a CD from an unsigned artist into Jimmy Iovine’s listening bag that he used to take home every Friday. And Jimmy actually listened to it, and said “Whoa whoa whoa. What is this?” It was Eminem

JY5e4 TIL that scientists had to rename as many as 27 human genes because Microsoft Excel kept misreading their symbols as dates

AN0Ll TIL there's a burger chain called Supermac's that has a Big Mac knock off burger called the Mighty Mac, McDonald's sued them and lost