› added 9 years ago

75

TIL there is a 36 acre artificial reef in Florida constructed entirely of tires. The “reef” failed as no marine life were able to inhabit it. The site is currently an environmental disaster. “It’s weird…it’s just tires as far as you can see down there.”

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Md7V TIL wasps are extremely valuable in horticulture since they prey upon almost every pest insect and are used as a natural form of pest control
D190V TIL Mallows Bay, the largest ship graveyard in the Western Hemisphere, is a National Marine Sanctuary due to the reefs the shipwrecks provide.
EgQOo TIL after that near-default in 2011, the plunging stock market vaporized $2.4 trillion in household wealth, which took time to rebuild, and cost taxpayers billions in higher interest payments
LQlQp TIL that one of the largest known winged insects was a relative of dragonflies that lived 300 million years ago. It was predatory, had a 70 cm (2 ft 4 in) wingspan, and weighed up to 150 grams (1/3 lb).
8adQP TIL in 2016, 5,712 Native American women were reported missing. Only 116 were logged in the DOJ database.