› added 3 years ago

94

TIL about a Madagascan lemur called Aye-aye which has a structurally unique and long middle finger that it uses to pull out grubs and insects out of trees

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

xVk8D TIL a chair is used for lion taming due to how a cat's brain has evolved to only deal with a single thing at a time. The four legs of the chair confuse the lion, rendering it mostly harmless.
nWvB TIL it may be possible to colonize the three farthest gas giants with floating cities in their atmospheres.
16Kk8 TIL that the longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years. Charles Osborne, from the USA, hiccuped continuously from 1922 to 1990, totaling over 430 million hiccups.
neVWP TIL that the Vatican is the largest wine consumer in the world per capita. Each resident of the city-state consumes an average of 74 liters of wine per year, or nearly 100 bottles. This is twice as much as in France and seven times more than in the United States.
v1Ly8 TIL The Boeing 747 airframe is designed to carry an extra engine called the "5th Pod Ferrying System" for delivering engines to other 747 aircraft on short notice.