› added 4 years ago

303

TIL the McRib was invented as a workaround to a chicken shortage

Read more businessinsider.com

via reddit.com

k075 TIL That Superman as Clark Kent was 4-F during WWII for poor vision because he read the Eye chart in the next room.
4X6Ma TIL Ameican women didn't start shaving their armpits until 1915... this sudden change was due to an advertisement in Harper's Bazaar fashion magazine. It was so effective that now 90% of US women shave their pits.
6ObZ TIL: Louis Chevrolet, the founder of Chevrolet died bankrupt and poor working as a mechanic for the company he started.
GYr5J TIL in July 1999, four ladybugs and their favorite food, aphids, were sent into space on NASA's Columbia shuttle to research how aphids escaped the ladybugs without the aid of gravity.
Lkpxr TIL that there is a mountain of evidence that humans can perceive colours that exist outside of the normal spectrum—they're called 'impossible colors' and they're quite literally indescribable