› added 12 years ago

160

TIL that the world’s largest aquatic frog’s scientific name translates to “aquatic scrotum” due to its wrinkly skin.

Read more weirdimals.wordpress.com

via reddit.com

N8OJ TIL Transmutation (turning one substance into another by chemical reaction, like in alchemy) is real. You can turn lead into gold with enough nuclear chemistry. But it would be a very tiny amount of gold and spent more money to make it than what it’s worth.
ADZo4 TIL that James Gunn has a playlist of over 500 songs that he thinks Peter Quill's mother would have really liked and pulls from that list when he thinks a song would suit a scene. Disney has never rejected any of his songs.
jZRE TIL The Great Pyramid is aligned with Machu Picchu, the Nazca lines and Easter Island along a straight line around the center of the Earth
dD807 TIL A lady from 15th Century England called Julia Berners is responsible for starting the tradition of giving animal groups whimsical names.
9wW6p TIL Ethiopia, Bhutan, Albania, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, and Costa Rica are the only countries to have 100% renewable electricity generation