› added 7 years ago

153

TIL the FTC once issued a cease and desist order to Campbell’s Soup company for using marbles in their soup ads. The marbles were placed in the bottom of the soup to push the solid ingredients to the top, which was considered deceptive.

Read more campaignlive.com

via ift.tt

XEXjR TIL Stephen Marshall American-Canadian vigilante who searched publicly available Sex offender registries in the United States for the names and addresses of convicted sex offenders before traveling to Maine in the Northeastern United States and murdering two.
nn9B TIL when signing a bill the President signs with different pens and those pens are the gift to the people that contributed most to the bill.
oBGwL TIL the parents were conceived as the leads of sitcom Family Ties but positive reaction to Michael J Fox's character saw focus switch to Alex after the fourth episode
Ede7 TIL approximately 20% of people have a “neurological glitch” that makes them chronically bad at spelling; they are unable to “see” the word
O9Y4 TIL there is a remote village in China where many of the inhabitants have blue/green eyes and fair hair. Researchers now believe the villagers may have descended from a legion of Roman soldiers who escaped from a doomed battle in ancient Parthia.