› added 4 years ago

138

TIL a common variety of slime mold (which is comprised of many single cell organisms) is capable of solving mazes and having preferences. To accomplish this, the slime mold is believed to use a form of democratic-ranked-choice voting

Read more discovermagazine.com

via reddit.com

pp9b TIL that your neighbor’s ham radio can interfere with your wifi signal, and that it is the ham radio operator’s responsibility not to mess up your wifi, and if they do, you can report them to the FCC and they can lose their license
x6ym1 TIL: The Kurgan from The Highlander is the voice of Mr Krabs
wL6pM TIL out of the three different types of lightning, ground to cloud lightning is the rarest, but the most dangerous. The reason why it is called “ground to cloud” is that the flash itself comes up from the ground.
WdxB TIL that king Cambyses II of Persia used cats to invade Egypt. Knowing that cats held a high place in Egyptian society, the king brought hundreds of cats into his front lines. As a result, Egyptian archers refused to fire on his felines, fearing that they would injure the animals.
4enJ TIL that scientific pioneer Nikola Tesla was skeptical of Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. In 1892 he started work on his own “dynamic theory of gravity.” This was revealed when he announced the near completion of the project at age 81. He died 5 years later and the project was never found.