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TIL Male ferrets can’t be separated from the female after penetration until they decide to do so, due to their hooked penis. Females will die in heat if they go too long without sex.

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Brnb TIL That A Video Game Designed to Treat Depression Worked Better Than Counseling
M7mPV TIL Ving Rhames earned $7.7 million for roughly 39 seconds of screen time in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011), which makes him the highest-paid actor for the smallest amount of screen time. He had just two days of work on set.
Yl8x TIL Mae Jemison, the first female African-American astronaut, was inspired to apply to NASA by the Star Trek character, Lieutenant Uhura. Jemison later went on to make a cameo appearance in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
LkEx9 Til that in 2006 the U.N.E.P. launched a massive campaign to plant a billion trees. Many countries took up the challenge with China and India planting over 2 billion.
gMB9D Today I learned that an advanced civilization called the Cahokia once existed along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers in the modern day United States