TIL: Honey Bees make decisions collectively--and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building, literally
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NY Times
Reports From the Hive, Where the Swarm Concurs
Gaining insight by watching honeybees “waggle dance” their way to a democratic decision.
TIL Hennig Brand, a German alchemist in the 1660s, was convinced he could distill gold from human urine. After amassing 1,500 gallons of urine and boiling it, he discovered the element phosphorus.
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Phosphorus Starts With Pee In This Tale Of Scientific Serendipity
German alchemist Hennig Brand started with about 1,500 gallons of urine in his 17th century hunt for gold. Discovering phosphorus was just a nice surprise. Know a modern tale of scientific luck?
TIL that medieval dentists knew how to fill cavities, treat facial fractures, could spot oral cancer, and even knew the basics of whitening teeth. Evidence also suggests they knew how to create dentures out of cow bone and human teeth.
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BBC NEWS | Health | Medieval teeth 'better than Baldrick's'
Medieval dentists knew how to fill cavities, spot oral cancer and even how to whiten teeth
TIL about an unnamed Viking warrior who was tasked with guarding a narrow (4 person wide) bridge against the Saxons in 1066. He survived constant attack for 1 hour until a clever Saxon floated down the river in a barrel and piked him in the groin from under the bridge.
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r/todayilearned - TIL about an unnamed Viking warrior who was tasked with guarding a narrow (4 person wide) bridge against the…
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TIL: The small hopping insect Issus Coleoptratus uses toothed gears on its joints to precisely synchronize the kicks of its hind legs as it jumps forward. This insect has the only mechanical gears ever found in nature
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Smithsonian
This Insect Has The Only Mechanical Gears Ever Found in Nature
The small hopping insect Issus coleoptratus uses toothed gears on its joints to precisely synchronize the kicks of its hind legs as it jumps forward
TIL that Disney is an anglicized version of the French name “D’Isigny”, meaning “From Isigny”. Descendants from the same ancestors as Walt formed a cheese company in France. They sometimes collaborate and make Mickey-themed cheese packages.
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Isigny Sainte-Mère
D'Isigny à Disney l'étonnante épopée ! · Isigny Sainte-Mère
Isigny Sainte-Mère et The Walt Disney Company France ont décidé de célébrer ensemble les origines normandes de la famille Disney ! Découvrez les produits en édition limitée en magasins.
TIL that The 'super-banana,' a genetically modified fruit from Australia that contains increased levels of vitamin A, could help prevent thousands of Ugandan children from going blind and dying from Vitamin A deficiencies
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Science Times
Genetically Modified 'Super Bananas' Could Prevent Blindness
Genetically Modified 'Super Bananas' Could Prevent Blindness The 'super-banana,' a genetically modified fruit from Australia that contains increased levels of vitamin A, could help prevent thousands of Ugandan children from going blind and dying from Vitamin…
TIL the Torah has been reduplicated almost perfectly throughout history. Between all Jewish communities worldwide, only Yemen’s was found to be different. It had a total of 9 errors amidst 304,805 letters.
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aishcom
Accuracy of Torah Text
The great success of Jewish tradition is the meticulous transmission of the Torah text. But actually how accurate is it?
TIL that the Killer Whale is a natural predator of the Moose
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Wikipedia
Moose - Wikipedia
species of mammal
TIL the guitar solos finishing "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd were added to give lead singer Ronnie Van Zant a chance to rest while playing several sets per night.
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Free Bird
"Free Bird", or "Freebird", is a power ballad performed by American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. The song was first featured on the band's debut album in 1973 and has been included on subsequent albums, including the unfaded-ending version of the original recording…
TIL of a man that protects the world's rarest colors, some being poisonous, and some very beautiful. One of the colors is a yellow pigment originating from dried cow urine where they were only fed mango leaves.
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Submitted May 11, 2019 at 09:15PM by Cicopath1
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TIL Adolf Dassler, who went by the name “Adi,” returned to the ruins of post-war Germany and decided to abandon his career of baking and follow his passion of making athletic gear. He then founded Adidas.
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Submitted May 11, 2019 at 07:56PM by Ryuary
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Wikipedia
Adolf Dassler - Wikipedia
German entrepreneur, founder of Adidas shoe company
TIL A devout Mormon set out in 1955 on an archaeological expedition to prove the Book of Mormon's claims. After 15 years instead he found nearly every claim in the BOM was wrong and the papyrus J. Smith claimed written by Abraham was actually just a page ripped out of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
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Mormons in Transition
A Mormon Champion's Loss of Faith
A candid yet even-handed survey of Book of Mormon (BOM) archaeology, told through the career of Thomas Stuart Ferguson, one of its most ardent twentieth century champions.
TIL about Sarah Halley Finn, the casting director for every single MCU movie to date (except The Incredible Hulk). She has chosen over 1000 actors for the MCU.
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Submitted May 12, 2019 at 01:28AM by Sergeant__Slash
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FANDOM
Why Sarah Halley Finn is Marvel’s Secret Weapon
Forget Stan Lee and Kevin Feige -- Sarah Halley Finn is the true hero of the MCU, having cast Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Doctor Strange and more.
TIL that the city of Topeka, Kansas was renamed to Topikachu for a day in both 1998 and 2018 to celebrate the release of new Pokémon games.
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Submitted May 11, 2019 at 09:42PM by illusoir3
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Anime News Network
City of Topeka Renamed 'ToPikachu' to Celebrate Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu!/Eevee! Games
The city of Topeka, Kansas wants to be the very best, like no one ever was. The city will again rename itself "ToPikachu" on October 27 as part of a celebration...
TIL Beats headphones contain about $17 worth of parts and a full 1/3rd of their weight comes from metal weights
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Submitted May 12, 2019 at 04:41AM by Randolm
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HuffPost
We Took Apart Some Beats Headphones And Here's What We Found
It's nearly impossible to be on a train, fly on a plane or walk down the street without spotting the iconic "b" logo. Beats has been extremely successful...
TIL that New York City is one of four major cities in the United States whose drinking water is pure enough not to require purification by water treatment plants. The city is supplied with drinking water by the protected Catskill Mountains watershed.
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Submitted May 12, 2019 at 03:52AM by brucejoel99
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Wikipedia
Indians in the New York City metropolitan region
Indians in the New York City metropolitan region constitute one of the largest and fastest growing ethnicities in the New York City metropolitan area of the United States. The New York City region is home to the largest Indian American population among metropolitan…
TIL During WWII, the German army used a radar system called Wotan. The British scientist R.V. Jones figured out how the system worked by assuming that it used a single beam based on the fact that the Germanic god Wotan had only one eye.
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Wikipedia
Battle of the Beams - Wikipedia
The Battle of the Beams was a period early in the Second World War when bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) used a number of increasingly accurate systems of radio navigation for night bombing in the United Kingdom. British scientific intelligence…
TIL archeologists are using LiDAR to survey the South American rainforests. The results have helped reveal over 60000 previously undiscovered ruins, part of a much greater civilization than previously thought.
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Submitted May 12, 2019 at 08:00AM by Nick_van_Rooyen
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The Verge
Archeologists used lasers to discover thousands Mayan structures in Guatemala
Extensive LiDAR scans demonstrated that the region was more densely populated than previously thought
TIL that the really innocent-sounding German 1980's song "99 luftballons" or "99 red balloons" is actually about two kids accidentally causing a nuclear holocaust by releasing 99 red balloons.
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Submitted May 12, 2019 at 12:52PM by orests1
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TIL of a "pineberry", a white hybrid of the strawberry. It looks just like one, but has the taste of a pineapple. It had been "rescued" by Dutch farmers, and later on, commercially sold in the 2010's. At the moment, they're grown (only) in Japan. They're ~$10.00 per berry.
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Submitted May 12, 2019 at 03:41PM by Cicopath1
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Strawberry Plants . org
Pineberry & Pineberries, The Rest of the Story
A pineberry is a white strawberry with red seeds with pineapple overtones. Buy pineberries, buy pineberry plants here. Buy pineberry & pineberries!