› added 2 years ago

68

TIL some species of mole rats form superorganisms like ants, split into physically different specialized roles (non-reproductive workers, a single queen, and dispersers)

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

yQjDa TIL That the American Fat Salvage Committee was created to urge housewives to save all the excess fat rendered from cooking and donate it to the army to produce explosives during World War II.
e756 TIL the British Army issues antimicrobial underwear that can be worn for three months at a time.
PMpJ TIL that on the Eastern front of WW2, Russian troops paraded naked women through the forest as psyops. When the Germans bunched up to check out the women with binoculars, they were hit by Russian artillery.
eb1b TIL in November 2008 at the height of hyperinflation, 1 US dollar was equal to 2,621,984,228,675,650,147,435,579,309,984,228 Zimbabwe dollars
X0vpQ TIL that the word "cravat" originates from a form of neck–cloth worn by members of the seventeenth century military unit known as the Croats.