› added 11 years ago

222

TIL That ants wage war in remarkably similar way to humans.

Read more wired.com

via reddit.com

KOPww TIL Walgreens found early major success during Prohibition, by filling whiskey prescriptions.
JY5jQ TIL Alcoholics Anonymous groups use "thirteenth stepping" as a pejorative term for approaching new members of the groups for dates.
VMKyB TIL - While other birds have to sit on nests and use their body heat to incubate their eggs, incubator birds are more like engineers and have a very good solution. They pile plant debris on their eggs and make use of the heat of composting to hatch their eggs, essentially creating a mini greenhouse.
QJKap TIL about Mary A. and Barbara F., both were born the same day, 157 years apart. Before they died, they both joined a friend and then went to dance. They both met their killer the same day and they both died the same day at the same place. Both killers were called Thornton and both were acquitted.
epOy4 TIL the 1983 film "Talking Tiger Mountain" was based on William S. Burroughs' 1979 novel "Blade Runner: a Movie" which was originally a film treatment for Alan E. Nourse's 1973 novel "The Bladerunner," the title of which (but not the story) was used in the 1982 film "Blade Runner"