The gopher tortoise is a moderate-sized, terrestrial turtle, averaging 23â28 cm (9â11 in) in length. The species is identified by its stumpy, elephantine hind feet and flattened, shovel-like forelimbs adapted for digging.The shell is oblong and generally tan, brown, or gray in coloration.Gopher tortoises can live 40 to 60 years in the wild. Gopher tortoises are ancient: their ancestors are a species of land tortoise that originated in western North America some 60 million years ago.he gopher tortoise is a moderate-sized, terrestrial turtle, averaging 23â28 cm (9â11 in) in length. The species is identified by its stumpy, elephantine hind feet and flattened, shovel-like forelimbs adapted for digging. The shell is oblong and generally tan, brown, or gray in coloration.
Chili's first location, a converted postal station on Greenville Ave. in the Vickery Meadows area of Dallas, Texas, opened in 1975. The original Chili's on Greenville Ave. moved to a new building on the same site in 1981 before relocating again in 2007. (A 7-Eleven convenience store/gas station is now on the site.)
Chili peppers from Central America. There are two main kinds of pepper: black pepper and chili pepper. Chili peppers come from South America, and they're related to other South American plants like tomatoes, tobacco, and potatoes. Chili doesn't taste hot to birds, so possibly the hot taste evolved so that birds would eat the fruit and mammals wouldn't-birds do a better job of spreading chili pepper seeds. But even if chili pepper plants didn't like people eating them, people liked to eat them anyway! People in South America were gathering this kind of pepper as early as 7500 BC, not long after people first came to South America. By about 4000 BC, farmers were growing chili peppers in South America.