› added 11 years ago

339

TIL Qatar Airways allows only one falcon per person as carry-on. It used to be two.

Read more qatarairways.com

via reddit.com

graL4 TIL Boeing built an entire fake town on top of their Seattle area factory during WW2
0wbV1 TIL that Ichneumon wasps lay their eggs inside trees where they detect formerly laid and evolved wood wasp larvae. They paralize the other larvae through poison and then lay their single egg on top of it. Scientists are not sure how they find their victims through centimenters of solid tree bark
xVPL7 TIL: Only 10 companies control almost every large food and beverage brand in the world.
loDYr TIL A year after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Wat Misaka broke basketball's with the New York Knicks, Larry Kwong broke hockey's with the New York Rangers. Becoming the first man of Asian descent to appear professionally.
En7X TIL that a man spent 17 years building a Lamborghini from scratch in his basement and then smashed a hole in his house to get it out