› added 7 years ago

1816

TIL in 1969, Brazilian bus drivers were arrested for training beetles to crawl inside fare boxes and carry out the coins. The beetles were also arrested.

Read more bbc.co.uk

via reddit.com

g468 TIL Netflix’s origin story “Reed Hasting came up with the idea for Netflix when he was hit with a $40 late fee on the movie Apollo 13” is BS and just a marketing tool.
W7QJd TIL that the law of the Mongol Empire was never made public
Eg5gW TIL that we don't have 100,000km (60,000m) of blood vessels. It's actually around 9,000km to 19,000km
690nQ TIL around 25% of all mammal species are bats
RQ7j TIL WW2 bombing accuracy was so abominable, there was only 22% chance of a bomber crew finding its way to within 5 miles of its target and for heavily defended targets the percentage dropped to 7%.