› added 9 years ago

625

TIL scientists didn’t discover a single male Blanket octopus until 2002 because they were looking at the wrong magnitude. Females can be up to 40,000 times more massive than males; the largest gender size discrepancy in the animal kingdom.

Read more wired.com

via reddit.com

Nyeb TIL Antimatter, at $62.5 trillion per gram, is the most expensive substance in the world.
epRyk TIL that Disney filming crews push Lemmings down the cliff
85vL TIL Richard Nixon refused to shake hands with anyone from San Francisco because he felt it was “the most faggy goddamned thing you could imagine.”
b9D4N TIL there's a near perfectly preserved 17th Century Swedish galleon in a Stockholm museum
pX1G TIL microbiologist Raul Cano, successfully revived yeast that had been stuck in amber for 25 million years. He then co-founded a brewery that uses the same 45 million-year-old species of yeast to brew beer.