› added 10 years ago

213

TIL: hummingbirds use spider silk to build their nests

Read more birdsandblooms.com

via reddit.com

v1eKx TIL neither of the Wright Brothers married. Wilbur Wright once quipped "I do not have time for both a wife and an airplane."
M7JM7 TIL Leo the Mathematician devised a network of communication beacons that was built and operated around 1100 years ago. Based on modern experiments, the network's several branches could transmit and receive messages at a speed of 450 miles per hour
WxGo TIL Joss Whedon wrote 98.9 percent of the dialogue for the movie Speed, uncredited
VBKgG TIL that Humans, Killer whales, Narwhals, and a few other types of toothed whales are the only mammal species known to undergo menopause
b6rYE TIL about "Refrigerator Women", a trope in fiction where a female character is killed or seriously injured as a plot device to motivate the male characters, an example of which being the death of Gwen Stacey (Emma Stone) at the end of The Amazing Spider-Man 2