› added 1 year ago

247

TIL goats have "accents"

Read more npr.org

via reddit.com

d8vwB TIL : Chimps have more adaptive genetic changes than human.
9pM TIL in the Grimm Brother’s Cindarella, the stepsisters cut off their heel and toe to try to fit their foot into the slipper..
wL9M6 TIL about "lonely negatives". These are words with common prefixes or suffixes such as "dis-", "in-", "un-", "-less" but they don't have positive counterparts such as the words "disgust", "disappoint", "reckless" - they don't have "gust", "appoint", or "reckful" as their opposites.
OXnL TIL Canada bought a license to produce a fighter the US no longer wanted, and it ended up being so successful as a ground attack aircraft that nobody was able to catch one during more than 20 years of NATO exercises. They won first or second place in nearly every exercise they participated in.
LkLk0 TIL the reason two horizontal lines are used for the Equals sign is because, in the words of the inventor, “no 2 things can be more equal”