› added 2 months ago

48

TIL that dogs can tell male and female humans apart

Read more mypetmatters.co.uk

via reddit.com

4XGEw TIL that some birds form crèches, a "daycare system" where baby birds separate from their parents and form a group supervised by a few adults, allowing their parents to go forage for food.
VnZG TIL two entrepreneurs and ten former Polaroid employees continue to produce and sell instant film for traditional Polaroid cameras.
jNpGR TIL the term "geek" was originally used to describe someone who was paid to bite the heads off of live chickens as a circus act.
xxQb TIL George Washington’s mother was alive to see George Washington win the revolutionary war and see him become the nation’s first president. She was consistently dissatisfied with her son and even petitioned Virginia for a pension because of claimed neglect.She was also rumored to be a loyalist.
bYlQ TIL of Shavarsh Karapetyan who was a 17-time world champion finswimmer and heard that a bus crashed in the water. He went in the deep water and rescued 20 people from drowning. After 10 years he rescued more people from a burning hospital. He also carried the torch in the Winter Olympics of 2014.