› added 1 year ago

104

TIL The malacologist Alexander Fedoslov named the four sea slugs from the group Clavus which he discovered after his favorite rock & metal guitarists: Clavus davidgilmouri (Pink Floyd), Clavus andreolbrichi (Blind Guardian), Clavus kirkhammetti (Metallica) and Clavus brianmayi (Queen)!

Read more tandfonline.com

via reddit.com

6E0NW TIL Active since at least 1998, "in concert with the CIA and FBI, (NSA's) TAO is used to intercept laptops purchased online, divert them to secret warehouses where spyware and hardware is installed, and send them on to customers."
x6baD TIL that the Earl of Elgin, from 1801 to 1812, removed about half of the surviving sculptures of the Parthenon in Greece.
W7YOA TIL about the problem of communicating nuclear hazard warnings to our ancestors 10.000 into the future. Because languages change and symbols can lose their meaning, solutions include fear inducing structures, atomic priesthoods, and propagating myths about glowing cats.
a8w19 TIL in 2015 the US Forces wanted to update the 'loose lips, sink ships' warning from WW2, Warning against sharing information with others outside the forces. They had to tailor it for the Social Media generation, and came up with: 'loose tweets destroy fleets'.
O9ae TIL that in 1994, when the Ku Klux Klan applied to sponsor a portion of United States Interstate 55 in Missouri which allowed them to have signs stating the sponsorship, since the state could not legally refuse it, the Missouri legislature voted to name the highway section the “Rosa Parks Highway”.