› added 12 years ago

253

TIL that euthanasia literally means “Happy Death” in Greek

Read more ehis.ebscohost.com

via reddit.com

OlM6 TIL That Grace Hopper is credited with popularizing the term “debugging” when she removed a moth from a computer.
R5DK8 TIL about Helibacon, a TX company that will take you up in a chopper to hunt wild hogs with machine guns🤯😂
9YlGD TIL When a flock of starlings are murmurating (flying in those shape-shifting patterns) Each individual birds' movements are copied by 7 of its closest neighbours, and each of those neighbours' movements affect 7 more and so on through the flock.
G6N1 TIL - That a woman from Northern England has 4 functioning colour cones (most of us have only 3) and that due to this she can see 99 million more colours than the average person.
N7aVE Today I Learned 7 Planets you Probably didn't know about