Beaver Bottoms
Castoreum, which is used as a substitute vanilla flavoring, is actually taken from the anal glands of beavers. The real question is, who discovered this?
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- Beavers have transparent eyelids so they can see underwater.
- The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated the same year Nintendo was founded.
Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.