› added 5 months ago

16

TIL Half of pregnancies in giant pandas result in twins but the mother chooses the stronger cub and the other one is left to die of starvation.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

pYWVe TIL about Inca polygonal masonry, where they would use huge stones cut into unique shapes that fit so well together that they didn't use mortar. The largest of these (at Sacsayhuamán) was ~200 tons, or 80 times the size of the blocks used at Giza. They didn't use draft animals, wheels, or pulleys.
4XQKo TIL the first self-made black female millionaire of America was Madam C. J. Walker whose both parents were enslaved. After experiencing hair loss herself she created the "Walker system" which involved scalp preparation, lotions and iron combs. Her saleswomen were called "beauty culturalists".
DPRj TIL Canada’s 1st Prime Minister ‘Sir John A. Macdonald’ was so hammered during one of the first election debates that he started vomiting violently and had to be sent home.
16vP4 TIL that members of Congress receive annual allowances of $3.7M for senators and $1.4M for representatives, in addition to their salaries
d8Ybd TIL about Ensign Wasp. This small insect, occasionally found inside our houses, is actually beneficial to our homes because it feeds on cockroach eggs, thus controlling cockroach infestations :)