› added 5 years ago

321

TIL giraffes fight by swinging their necks at each other.

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

6gWY TIL NASA Uses the Movie Armageddon in Their Management Training Program. They count the impossibilities: 168
4kMYo TIL the reason why older Japanese paints have women with black lips is not to provide contrast, but because they actually represent black teeth which was a common custom of the time.
OovNg TIL the integral of the secant formula, important in cartography, has been found accidentally when a mathematician was running through numerical approximations known at the time and recognized they matched ln(|tan(phi/2 + pi/4)|). It took 28 more years for someone find a formal proof
yVO6e TIL cats were a common wedding gift among Vikings due to their association with the goddess of luck, Freyja. Men favored women who loved cats, believing that it increased the likelihood of a happy marriage.
wLeEP TIL that the largest convenience store in the world is Buc-ee's in New Braunfels, Texas (outside San Antonio) at 68,000 square feet