› added 4 years ago

73

TIL there is a spider species, Bagheera kiplingi, that is mostly herbivorous, even actively avoiding confrontation with other insects while foraging for food. They sometimes rarely steal ant larvae or cannibalize during dry season, when the plant they prefer would be unavailable.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

pYelb Today I learned safer ways to use crack cocaine.
MXAK TIL that the current pope penned a document on how to cover up a pedophile priest scandal
K519 TIL Harley Davidson paid a $15M fine for cheating on EPA emissions in 2016
w1KM TIL during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami on 26 December 2004, fishermen said they saw with their own eyes “the reality of generations of legends … the remains of ancient temples and hundreds of refrigerator-sized blocks, all briefly exposed before the sea swallowed them up again.”
BrQbd TIL about the Grafton castaways, a real-life Gilligan's Island. Shipwrecked for 18 months in the Auckland islands in 1864, the 5 men lived in a thatched hut complete with glass windows and bookshelves. They built a forge to work metal, tanned leather, made soap from seashells, and even brewed beer.