› added 2 years ago

70

TIL: The consensus is that octopuses are most likely sentient.

Read more bbc.com

via reddit.com

gMLDA TIL There are more people in slavery today than at any other time in history.
40Xo TIL Whale Fossils have been found on top of the Andes mountains
AKxB TIL in the Harry Potter series, Tom Riddle has a different name depending on which language the book is in, in order to preserve the anagram in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
AABB TIL the Internet weighs about as much as a strawberry. The weight of all the electrons in motion that make up the internet at any given moment is equivalent to 50 grams.
LkAnd TIL that when Adolf Hitler joined the DAP, the predecessor of the Nazi Party, he was member number 555. However, he was only the fifty-fifth member of the party as they started counting membership at 500 to give the impression they were a much larger party.