› added 4 years ago

201

TIL African gray parrots will help other members of their species in need, the first time such charitable behavior has been documented among birds.

Read more nationalgeographic.com

via reddit.com

R7kk9 TIL A 3M tape plant accidentally created a force field of static electricity that was strong enough to prevent humans from passing through. A person near this "wall" was unable to turn, and so had to walk backwards to retreat from it.
K7VR TIL Liberian militia leaders adopt crazy names such as General Butt Naked, General Mosquito, and his nemesis, General Mosquito Spray.
aw079 TIL that in a sexual survey U.S. women reported using a nationwide total of 1.1 Billion condoms a year. Men reported using 1.6 Billion condoms a year. The actual amount of condoms sold by manufacturers was 600 million.
R5v6j TIL about The Dancing Plague of 1518 - A case of mass hysteria in Strasbourg where hundreds of people danced uncontrollably for days, leading to several deaths.
neNZP TIL When the U.S. Half-Cent was discontinued in 1857 for not having enough buying power, it was worth about the same as a modern U.S. Dime