› added 4 years ago

203

TIL: There are actually very few countries in the world that have no snakes

Read more popsci.com

via reddit.com

OGPr6 TIL bones make up around 85-90% of adult bearded vultures' (Gypaetus barbatus) diet. Bones are swallowed whole or bitten through, up to the size of a lamb's femur,
RRwQ TIL that one of the leading lights of the Gun Control movement had to withdraw his work from publication and had a prestigious national history award rescinded due to false, unethical and fraudulent research
D1YDe TIL that honey bees are the first insect known to grasp the concept of zero. Study shows that honey bees can learn and apply the concepts of greater than and less than to interpret a blank stimulus as representing the conceptual number of zero and place zero in relation to other numerical values.
BrQRK TIL TV shows show CPR working around 75% of the time, while in real life its effectiveness is actually 5-7%.
nWd7P TIL about a professional football club in the Solomon Islands named Real Kakamora, who were so bad that they lost all of their 22 matches, conceding over 110 goals. As a result, they have since become one of the most popular clubs in Oceania, and placed third the next season!