› added 1 year ago

41

TIL The Collective Noun is the term used for the noun that denotes a group of individual animals. Usually a colorful and descriptive noun that lets people know you are talking about a group and not one. Vultures have one of the Largest Numbers of Collective Nouns based on what they are doing.

Read more thebirdpedia.com

via reddit.com

N7GN8 TIL Water is used in rice fields to prevent weeds. Rice doesn't actually need that much water, but since it can thrive in such conditions, whereas weeds cannot, it's a natural protection against them.
KOnNB TIL about an environmental organisation called Fuck for Forest (FFF) in Norway. They make money by offering sexually explicit videos and photographs online that can be accessed with a certain membership fee and donate part of the money to saving rainforests.
69LEJ TIL In the early 1970s the submarine USS Halibut was sent on a secret mission to tap a Soviet undersea cable. The cable was quickly found because the Soviets left signs warning fishing vessels not to anchor near it. The operation was successful and the tap wouldn’t be discovered until 1981.
J1pZ1 TIL 80% of container ships use electric motors - they just use diesel generators to produce energy for the electric motor
Oopp7 TIL that ants sleep but not in the sense we understand sleep. Research into sleep patterns of insects showed that ants have a cyclical pattern of resting periods which each nest as a group observes, lasting around eight minutes in any 12-hour period.