› added 4 years ago

102

TIL Dung Beetles navigate via the Milky Way, the first known species to do so in the animal kingdom

Read more blog.nationalgeographic.org

via reddit.com

j6B4R TIL Crown Royal Whisky was created in 1939 specifically to celebrate King George VI as the first reigning monarch to Cross the Atlantic and visit Canada. The popular whisky wasn't available outside Canada until 1964.
9w61B TIL that Georgia Tech peacefully desegregated without court order or protest in 1961, becoming the first school in the south to do so. It's also one of the only public universities that never witnessed a protest against the Vietnam War
a8vBN TIL that photons created in the center of the sun take a few thousand years to a few million to reach the surface of the sun and then only 8 minutes to reach Earth as light.
dD0Z8 TIL In the 1500s, a priest named Diego de Landa asked a Maya scribe to produce an alphabet of his language and write a sentence. The sentence the scribe wrote was "Ma’ in k’áati’" (I don't want to). The sentence was deciphered in the late 1900s as Maya writing is syllabic, not alphabetic.
kJLV1 TIL although the Walther PPK is more known for being the gun James Bond uses ("Ian Fleming's choice of Bond's weapon directly influenced the popularity and notoriety of the PPK"), it was also the same gun that Hitler used to commit suicde