› added 3 years ago

150

TIL that the Creatonotos gangis moth spreads pheromones using long appendages called hair-pencils.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

8ama8 TIL Thomas Jefferson and George Washington happened to both be King George III's 11th cousin, once removed. They were leading a revolution against their own blood relatives.
nZBG TIL There was a time when AMD and Intel CPUs used the same socket, and could run on the same motherboard.
NXMM6 TIL 15,498 dams across the United States are characterized as high hazard, meaning the loss of at least one human life is likely if the dam were to fail.
bRrQ TIL Otto Rahn was an SS officer in the 1930’s who was, homosexual, believed to be Jewish, fascinated with finding the Holy grail, and is described to be the inspiration for Indiana jones and the raiders of the lost ark.
W7o8B TIL Christiaan Huygens was one of the first astronomers to apply mathematical principles to the design of optics rather than trial and error, and his telescope could study Saturn's ring system. The Huygenian eyepiece he invented in the 17th century is still in use today