› added 12 years ago

133

TIL cows “moo” in different accents based on their region.

Read more news.bbc.co.uk

via reddit.com

Bg10W TIL “Avengers: Endgame” no longer had the biggest opening weekend ever in a single market by 2021. It was surpassed by a Chinese film called “Detective Chinatown 3” with a $398M opening in China, overtaking Avengers: Endgame’s North American launch of $357M in 2019.
Z6eo TIL that Leonard Nimoy sings a very interesting song about Bilbo Baggins.
4X5Ag TIL, the first human flight was in 875 AD. Abbas Ibn Firnas built a glider out of silk and feathers and flew for 10 minutes, but didn't quite work out how to slow the landing until after the flight and was injured. There is a crater on the moon named after him.
e06bb TIL the Founder of Kodak, George Eastman, insisted the company use a 13 month, 28 day per month calendar. This system would be used by Kodak as the official date system from 1928 to 1989.
m1lmx TIL Dance music reduces mosquitos drive to bite/feed and also reduces their ability to mate. Skrillex’s “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” was tested on the insects which caused females to search for a meal later and interrupted the males and females ability to find each other to mate.