› added 1 year ago

59

TIL the song “Rock Lobster” inspired John Lennon to start writing music again.

Read more ultimateclassicrock.com

via reddit.com

Zp0GB TIL: We domesticated the silk moth 5000 years ago for sericulture. They lost their ability to fly, lack fear of predators, & have lost native color pigments since camouflage is not useful as they only live in captivity. They're entirely dependent on humans for survival, including finding a mate.
eX7E TIL while Machiavelli criticized Christianity and the Church, he also strongly believed in the use of religion as a political tool. He thought that fear of God kept society in order, and that while a leader shouldn’t be too religious himself, he should make his people as religious as possible.
QJ04a TIL That the dots in words in dictionaries aren't to show the syllables, but to show where one can break the word when typing and you run out of space in a line.
78pJO TIL Dictator Manuel Noriega was allowed by the CIA to traffic cocaine into the US from the 1960s-1980s, until he stopped cooperating with US foreign policy directives. A subsequent US invasion of Panama resulted and he was sentenced to prison.
78Ldr TIL that the Confederacy bordered a Habsburg Mexican empire controlled by France