› added 4 years ago

82

TIL a single little brown bat can eat up to 1,200 mosquitoes an hour.

Read more urbannaturestore.ca

via reddit.com

N779J TIL out of 885 Army recruting stations across the United States, the most productive one is in American Samoa.
erEk TIL When adjusting for ticket price inflation Gone With The Wind is the all time biggest earning film in the US, grossing $1.6 billion domestically which is over twice as much as Avatar earned.
NamM TIL “hocus pocus” may have been coined by Protestants to mock the Catholic transubstantiation incantation used to turn bread and wine into flesh and blood, “hoc est corpus.”
wLWXJ TIL about the Great Hanging at Gainesville, a confederate war crime where 41 suspected unionists were executed in October of 1862
0wG4y TIL about Andy George who spent $1,500 and 6 months making a single sandwich completely from scratch. He did absolutely everything from making his own cheese to harvesting his own wheat. He made his own salt and made his own oil. He grew sunflowers and collected their seeds to extract fat.