› added 9 years ago

82

TIL The movie “The Warriors”, about a Brooklyn gang fighting its way past rivals to make it back to Coney Island, was an adaptation from the Ancient Greek text “Anabasis” by Xenophon about Greek mercenaries stranded 1,000 miles behind Persian lines trying to fight their way back home.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Q84M TIL Homosexuality is common among bats. It’s most common among… fruit bats
X00Mr TIL that in 1830, the Conic Sections Rebellion, Yale students protested having to draw diagrams on their final exams.
Bgr8K TIL that the Morse code at the beginning of the B-52’s song “Planet Claire” was a repeating message transmitted from a military radio station in Nova Scotia that translated to “Any and all allied warships, this is Canadian Forces Station Mill Cove…”
0wBNA TIL that unlike chimpanzees, bonobo societies are relatively peaceful, with squabbles rarely escalating to serious violence. Female bonobos spend their time together in the center of the group, grooming, eating and socializing. Often, two females will embrace and rub their genitals together
69dr7 TIL that the name “Sahara” is derived from the Arabic word for “desert”. The Sahara desert is the desert desert.