Post * wm9Y — Curious Curator

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TIL eyes of Arctic reindeer change color through the seasons from gold to blue

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GYa74 Today I learned that Penn & Teller first performed together 45 years ago at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival, sometimes with a third performer, billed as "The Asparagus Valley Cultural Society."

5VW9k TIL The wild ancestor of modern cattle was originally domesticated in India; The first cowboys were Indians.

9xrB TIL cellphones in Japan can’t turn off the shutter noise in order to protect the privacy of people.

jRKN TIL that poor people are more generous than the wealthy

rxgd TIL that Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, was at the forefront of the counterculture’s experimentation with psychedelics, which led to his 1954 work The Doors of Perception. Dying from cancer, he asked his wife on 22 November 1963 to inject him with 100 µg of LSD. He died later that day.