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TIL that many female workers at Ravensbrück concentration were forced to produce army uniforms for the Nazis. They deliberately sabotaged them. An example of this is that they made the heels of socks too narrow or defective. This gave soldiers painful blisters on their feet.

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x6685 TIL that the green revolution of the 1950s and 60s led to the widespread reduction--and in some places elimination--of famine and food insecurity. One leading figure in the revolution, Norman Borlaug, is credited with saving at least 1 billion people from starvation.
x6o1g TIL 'Bogdan' (car wash owner from Breaking Bad) is an actual scientist in real life, having a Ph.D in Chemistry, and at one point he served in the Office of Nuclear Energy in the United States. At first his kids wanted ot be extras in Breaking Bad, but the producers 'liked his look', so cast him.
jMQj TIL in 1957 Richie Ashburn, a member of the Philadelphia Phillies, hit a foul ball that struck spectator Alice Roth breaking her nose. When play resumed, Ashburn hit another foul ball striking her again as she was being taken off on a stretcher.
J1Op1 TIL, Jose Melena was at work loading pallets of canned tuna into a 35-foot-long pressure cooker when a coworker filled it up with 12,000 pounds of tuna and turned it on for 2 hours while Jose was still inside.
x64vk TIL Quebec's ban on toy and fast food ads directed at children under 13 has contributed to a reduction in childhood obesity rates.