TIL Herodotus wrote about fuzzy, dog sized ants living in India which dug up gold to build ant hills. For centuries, people assumed it was made up. In the 1990s, scientist discovered a fuzzy marmot living in India that digs up gold whenever it burrows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold-digging_ant



Submitted April 18, 2015 at 12:01AM by MyTILAccount http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/32y8yp/til_herodotus_wrote_about_fuzzy_dog_sized_ants/