› added 9 months ago

34

TIL when a male anglerfish finds a female, it bites into her, melts it's body to her down to the blood-vessel level so that she has a male immediately available when she is ready to spawn.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

QJKG9 TIL that author Tom Clancy died in 2013 but his name is still used on new novels written by ghostwriters.
OGYW1 TIL about the world's roundest object the Heason sphere. If this tiny sphere was blown up to the size of the earth, the height difference between the lowest point in the deepest ocean and the highest mountain would be just 10-15 feet.
MepQb TIL about the Contingency Fund for Foreign Intercourse – the earliest known black budget of the USA
WkAxN TIL Christopher Walken first trained as a dancer, and has danced in over 50 of his films, also starring in a music video which won a Grammy for Best Music Video of 2002
X0eZj TIL In 1980, a 30 year old man ate the entirety of a small Cessna aircraft, consumed over the course of 2 years