› added 2 years ago

71

TIL that many species of spiders can fly through the air with a technique called ballooning

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

j6XBp TIL PTSD did not become an official medical diagnosis until 1980.
XEl4P TIL Bill Gates had an arrangement with Melinda that he and his ex-girlfriend, Ann Winblad, could keep one vacation tradition alive. Every spring, as they have for more than a decade, Gates spends a long weekend with Winblad at her beach cottage.
woKBE TIL it is illegal for you to pump your own gas in Oregon and New Jersey.
ybke TIL if you had a baseball-sized piece of neutron star material it would weigh 20 trillion kg, about 40 times the estimated weight of the entire human population
D1JDj TIL why people don't scream and flail around when they close to drowning; their bodies do not have the air needed to perform actions such as waving around or screaming for help to seek attention, so the body attempts to prolong your survival in a few ways completely subconsciously.