› added 8 years ago

402

Short answer: Sadly, yes

Read more popsci.com

0wyLp TIL To defend against predatory wasps, honeybees create a defense wave known as shimmering. Participating honeybees need to respond with perfect timing when it's their turn to shimmer.
QMmE TIL the Rwandan Parliament is the only one in the world with a female majority.
e0am6 TIL Tabasco Sauce is fermented for three years in used Jack Daniel's Whiskey barrels before bottling.
jNxQM TIL the Great Lakes have at least 6,000 shipwrecks with some estimates as high as 25,000
Z8XRa TIL that in the 1700s, pineapples were expensive, so rich American colonists would rent a pineapple and carry it around parties to show off their wealth.