› added 11 years ago

89

TIL Queen Ants can live up to 30 years. A queen ant was held in captivity by German Entomologist Hermann Appel for 28¾ years

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

KJ1G TIL: The famous red sky in “The Scream” painting is probably from the eruption of Krakatoa. For several months, the sky was red, the moonlight appeared green, and the sun turned a lavender colour.
NrNP TIL Johnny Cash was the first radio operator to receive the news of Joseph Stalin’s death.
wok88 TIL you lost the game
OGG07 TIL of the August 26, 1980 Harvey’s Lake Tahoe casino bombing. 3 men in maintenance uniforms rolled in a device covered in cloth labeled IBM to a 2nd story empty office with a note demanding $3 million. The FBI was forced to detonate it after failing to defuse it
xyeB TIL of the boomslang snake in Africa. It’s venom can cause the victim to bleed to death from every orifice.