› added 7 years ago

90

TIL That Dung beetles are currently the only known non-human animal to navigate and orient themselves using the Milky Way

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

oBPQo TIL of "Alice in Wonderland Syndrome" in which patients have visual hallucinations in which they see objects around them distorted in size and shape. Lewis Carroll is thought to have suffered from it while he wrote his novels.
8aj7b TIL that when people in the UK talk about eating “baked beans on toast”, they’re not referring to the US-style baked beans that consist of a brown sugar base. They have a completely different style of baked beans with a tomato base.
QJXBd TIL Red hair occurs naturally in 1-2% of the human population. However, In Ireland, the percentage of population with red hair is estimated to be around 10%, making it the world’s highest concentrated population of red heads.
MeKXb TIL that Taco Bell once trolled McDonald's with a commercial featuring 25 real-life Ronald McDonald's endorsing their brand.
JYEvm TIL They found that the bats' closest relatives aren't tree shrews, flying lemurs, or even mice (as has been proposed); instead, they formed their own group early on that may share a common ancestor with the mammals that eventually evolved into horses, pangolins, whales, and dogs.