› added 2 years ago

343

TIL Ants sleep for 5 hours a day in short 1-2 minute naps with their longest being around 10.

Read more theguardian.com

via reddit.com

GD14 TIL the guy who created the backstreet boys and Nsync is serving 25 years in federal prison for running a Ponzi scheme
p8m1N TIL the most valuable heist in Canadian history involved 3000 tons of maple syrup worth $18.7 million
9wmp TIL that Canada’s official phone number is 1-800-O-Canada.
pAD4 TIL only one person has ever been executed by the state of Wisconsin. The public execution was so graphic and horrible that Wisconsin abolished the death penalty two years later.
78QDZ TIL that Canada had their own Benedict Arnold named Joseph Wilcox, who displayed his treachery during The War of 1812