💬 Quoted… "Clearly the individual choices that animals make within a social group are important to them."

Everyone knows that ducks fly together (s/o D2: Mighty Ducks) – but flamingos seem to be a bit less of a cohesive species. After studying 262 flamingos, UK scientists found that the birds form friendship groups based on personalities. "For example, bolder birds had stronger, more consistent ties with other bold birds, while submissive birds tended to spend their time with fellow submissive flamingos," per researcher and ​​animal behavioral scientist Dr. Paul Rose.

• The research was documented in a study, which was published yesterday in the journal Scientific Reports.

🖥🌝 Number of the Day: $5 million = the amount that Lonestar Data Holdings, a cloud computing startup, recently raised in seed funding; the company plans to build data centers on the Moon. Lonestar has already tested its data center on board the International Space Station successfully, and plans to launch a small data center box to the lunar surface later this year.

🤯 Did You Know?... The Fahrenheit temperature scale was standardized in 1724, or about 20 years before the Celsius scale. Much of the world – sans the US and a few other holdouts – didn’t end up exclusively using Celsius until after 1961, which was when the British Empire stopped publishing temps in Fahrenheit.

📖 Worth a Read: Ripples in spacetime are passing through you right now. This mission will reveal their secrets → (VICE)