› added 11 years ago

78

TIL Occam’s razor is not “the simplest answer is usually correct”, it’s “the answer that requires the fewest assumptions is usually correct”.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

oByko TIL the panda ant (Euspinolia militaris), so-called because of its black and white alternating coloration, is actually a species of wasp found in the forests of Chile and Argentina. They are known to deliver a very painful sting when they attack. Females are wingless and males have wings.
lVEA TIL that there is a family in Florence that has been keeping records of all of their ledgers, bills and correspondences in a continuous archive since 1362.
nALG TIL Squidbillies has Higher Ratings than the Daily Show with Trevor Noah
a8eL0 TIL: Ala Kachuu is a form of bride kidnapping practiced in Kyrgyzstan and can be consensual or non consensual. In 2005, 1/3 of brides were non consensual and were strangers. However, in 2007, 2 US women were bride-kidnapped, but were returned once the boys discovered they were foreigners.
oBwxW TIL the iPhone clock app displays the actual current time