› added 11 years ago

124

TIL: Female black bears delay the implantation of their fertilized eggs for months, effectively timing when they will give birth, and aborting the pregnancy if they are not healthy enough to rear cubs

Read more dfg.ca.gov

via reddit.com

neGeY TIL that Jimi Hendrix played guitar for Little Richard
QJd8p TIL that David Mech, who came up with the concept of the alpha wolf, later rejected the notion and now teaches against it.
eW1L TIL that in 2000 the major motorcycle companies of the world reached a gentlemen’s agreement to end a speed war of one-upmanship to try make the worlds fastest production bike, as they feared speeds would escalate to extremely dangerous speeds before it would end. A limit of 186 mph was agreed.
8A1a TIL whilst Harrison Ford was fitting a door for Francis Ford Coppola a studio executive asked the handyman to take a break and read lines with actresses who were testing for a new film. The film was Star Wars.
grMKb TIL On July 14, 1935 Penelope Powell and Graham Balcombe made what is considered to be the first cave dive. It was conducted at Wookey Hole in England. This historic site is still open to the small membership of divers belonging to the Cave Divers Group