› added 7 years ago

334

TIL that a group of Butterflies is called a kaleidoscope.

Read more reference.com

via reddit.com

lob5N TIL Kenney Jones, the man who replaced Keith Moon in The Who, was with Moon during the last night of his life.
VBZOD TIL that the earliest known fossil that shows evidence of internal fertilisation is the placoderm fish Microbrachius dicki, named after its discoverer Robert Dick, having lived about 385 Mya, with males having claspers and females having fixed plates to lock in the claspers during mating.
epVEJ TIL intercontinental ballistic missiles use celestial navigation to check and correct their course (initially set using internal gyroscopes) while flying outside the Earth's atmosphere.
GYDN1 TIL that the word helicopter is not split up into "heli" and "copter" but rather split into "helico" meaning spiral and "-pter" meaning one with wings
ElVo TIL that in 1936 a rare million-dollar Stradivarius violin got stolen from virtuoso Hall Huberman. The thief, a café musician named Julian Altman, became famous and performed for presidents. 49 years after the theft, he confessed to the theft on his deathbed and his wife received $263k finder’s fee.