› added 2 years ago

58

TIL bonobos try to lie to gain sympathy and will rat each other out with sign language and lexigrams

Read more smithsonianmag.com

via reddit.com

XELxE TIL Don Henley's "The End of the Innocence" was co-written by Bruce Hornsby, and Bruce Hornsby played the piano for the studio album; both artists perform this song at their concerts.
yQ878 TIL Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, has a PhD in molecular biology and is a licensed pilot who has completed a solo flight around the world.
DmvP TIL that at midnight on Dec 30th, 1899, a ship positioned itself at the intersection of the date line and equator, such that the bow and stern occupied different seasons, hemispheres, days, years, and centuries. For the ship, Dec 31st never occurred.
l790r TIL about Mary Anning, whom when she was 15 months old in the year 1800, she survived a lightning strike that killed the 3 women watching over her. She was completely fine and went on to be a well known palaeontologist.
WXm9 TIL Fifty Years Ago, the Transistor Radio Was the Hottest Gift For the Holiday Season