› added 4 years ago

235

TIL Bacchus Ladies are elderly female prostitutes in South Korea. They traditionally sold 'Bacchus' drinks, but the term is now synonymous with elderly prostitution. Ladies (mainly in 60s and 70s) solicit men in public parks. Most earn around $168 to $252 a month.

Read more nypost.com

via reddit.com

9Y0dB TIL of a "pineberry", a white hybrid of the strawberry. It looks just like one, but has the taste of a pineapple. It had been "rescued" by Dutch farmers, and later on, commercially sold in the 2010's. At the moment, they're grown (only) in Japan. They're ~$10.00 per berry.
4XAJo TIL Under France’s stringent privacy laws, parents can face penalties as severe as a year in prison and fines up to of €45,000 (£35,000) if convicted of publicizing intimate details of the private lives of their children without their consent.
dxZ TIL that the State of Washington was originally named Columbia, but, in order to prevent confusion with the District of Columbia, its name was changed to Washington
d8epj TIL that the submarine resembling a Lotus Espirit, from the Bond film The Spy who Loved Me, went unclaimed for 10 years in a prepaid storage unit. When its lease ran out, a buyer bought the unit for less than $100, including the submarine. In 2013, the submarine was sold at auction for £550,000.
VM81k TIL: America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who set forth the then revolutionary concept that the lands that Christopher Columbus sailed to in 1492 were part of a separate continent.