› added 10 years ago

211

TIL That the Purple Martins, on the US east coast, are 100% dependent on man made housing to breed and nest, made and maintained by communities of Purple Martin supporters.

Read more ct.gov

via reddit.com

9wYg7 TIL there are measure for diversity of exports a country produces and their ubiquity, or the number of the countries able to produce them (and those countries’ complexity) called Economic Complexity Index. Japan currently holds first place.
16AKW TIL Mike Judge created Boomhauer's voice based on a disgruntled viewer's voice mail that he couldn't understand. The voice mail was left during the Beavis and Butthead days. Here is a link to that voice mail.
b9Y09 TIL before becoming an iconic thriller, Stephen King's first novel "Carrie" was rejected by 30 publishers, causing him to give up and throw it in the trash. His wife retrieved it and urged him to resubmit it.
WPwd TIL It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
b6X4a TIL that the first instance of Panda Diplomacy was by Madame Chiang, who arranged for pandas to be sent to San Francisco as a dramatic way of saying thank you. The pandas received attention, but not as much as hoped, because on their way to the US, Pearl Harbor had been bombed.