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TIL Silverfish can survive without food for over 300 days if water is available.

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b6Yxp Today I learned that according to a study from British psychologist Kevin Dutton, being a civil servant is the 10th career path with the highest number of psychopaths.
Nw51 TIL that in 2011, Anonymous started attacking websites hosting child porn. Stating “Our demands are simple. Remove all child pornography content from your servers. It does not matter who you are, if we find you to be hosting, promoting, or supporting child pornography, you will become a target"
dm5K TIL That when caterpillars go through metamorphosis they, essentially, melt into soup and re-form their body from there.
kvk4 TIL That “The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the hardest tongue twister in the world.
vPE0L TIL, that the concept of a pre-flight checklist was first introduced by management and engineers at the Boeing Company following the 1935 crash of the prototype Boeing B-17 (then known as the Model 299) at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, killing both pilots.