› added 7 years ago

159

TIL: That the Shiba Inu dog breed nearly went extinct during World War 2 due to food shortages and disease.

Read more dogtime.com

via ift.tt

WkLAA TIL Coyotes use their howls and yipping to create a kind of census of coyote populations. If their howls are not answered by other packs, it triggers an autogenic response that produces large litters.
8aeEa Brains are different in people who get the chills from music.
1axVV TIL that polar bears and penguins live on opposite ends of the planet, and likely never have ever met.
DXyg TIL The “Red Phone” between the US and USSR was never actually a phone. It was a teletype machine, then a fax machine, and now days its a direct email connection.
Avow TIL Netfix outranks Cable TV in the United States, having more subscribers