› added 11 years ago

514

TIL ants were the first non-human meat farmers. An African breed of ants raises other bugs for food.

Read more newscientist.com

via reddit.com

4XWOR TIL that in 1660, Scottish writer Thomas Urquhart died from laughter after hearing that Charles II had came back to the throne.
rjPM TIL that in Russia, there is a monument to honor laboratory mice that have lost their lives furthering scientific research.
E14o TIL There are more black people under correctional control (prison, jail, parole, probation) today, than were enslaved in 1850
bMZ4 TIL LAX has an X at the end because before the 1930s airports had two letter identifiers. When identifiers were switched to three letters, many just added an X at the end.
wowr6 TIL Tetrachromats (mostly women) can distinguish upto 100 million colours since they posses a 4th type of cone cell , apart from having the regular RBG cone cells