Dogs In This Town Started Turning Blue, But No One Knew Why

The Secret to the Green

As it turns out, the green had something to do with Rio's placenta. The puppy would grow up totally normal, but the condition she was born with was known as biliverdin. It's green bile that can grow on a pup that's growing in the mother's womb. For humans, we can see this at work in ourselves when we bruise and our skin turns yellow or green after the incident...

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The More You Know

  • Enzo Ferrari told a man "you may be able to drive a tractor but you will never be able to handle a Ferrari properly." The man was so angry that he vowed to create the perfect car. His name was Ferruccio Lamborghini.
  • There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.
  • When a piece of bread is toasted, it's called the "Maillard reaction."
  • The idea that a man should spend two months salary on an engagement ring was popularized by De Beers' ad agency.
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