› added 10 years ago

89

TIL scientists discovered a female boa constrictor which could reproduce asexually. She produced two large litters of female babies, but unlike normal female boa constrictors these babies had two W chromosomes, instead of one Z and one W chromosome

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

4yy6 TIL Tokyo’s Mitsui Garden Yotsuya hotel offers ‘crying rooms’ only to women. Y. Ezato, the PR representative for the hotel, says with more Japanese women succeeding in the workforce, it’s causing a rise in female stress/anxiety. The rooms include tear-jerking movies, luxurious tissues & warm sheets
d8Oe7 TIL the human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day, scientists now reveal. Past research has shown that the body emits visible light, 1,000 times less intense than the levels to which our naked eyes are sensitive.
yN1a TIL Louis CK dropped his management agency because they asked Joe Rogan to apologize to Carlos Mencia for outing him as a joke theif
Olo1 TIL that “Gravity Falls” from Disney and “Rick and Morty” from Adult Swim had a subtle crossover- When Stan accidentaly throws some objects into a portal in the episode “Society of the Blind Eye”, those objects come out of one of Rick’s portals in “Close Rick-counters of the rick-kind”
Zp4Np TIL that Nicaraguan Sign Language is a sign language that deaf children in Nicaragua spontaneously developed in the 1980s. Linguists find it particularly interesting because it is believed to be an example of the birth of a new language, unrelated to any other.