› added 2 years ago

250

TIL hawkmoths rapidly rub their genitals in order to create ultrasound bursts. This confuses bats and effectively makes the moths invisible

Read more nbcnews.com

via reddit.com

p6VO TIL The ‘Technocracy’ movement seek to revolutionize the social structure and create a society without crime, debt, or war. This trough replacing politicians with scientists and engineers, politics with science, and make North America a self-sufficient continent.
e0mDJ TIL about Ross Ulbricht and Silk Road - Ross went from an Eagle Scout to running a billion dollar underground drug market
M7Ge0 TIL the US government accidentally discovered the first Gamma Ray Bursts using their spy satellites during the Cold War
b4xj TIL Clarence Elkins was denied an appeal on rape/murder charges despite proving the DNA didn’t match. He then did his own investigation, and found the real killer. The prosecutor still refused to overturn the conviction until the atty general publicly shamed him.
p8Eae TIL that “cooties” originally was WWI soldiers’ slang for body lice that infested the trenches, before it evolved into a children’s game of contagion that even includes “inoculation” via a ball point pen and a rhyme, which emerged after the polio vaccine became common.