› added 5 years ago

487

TIL about The Whole Shabang, a brand of chips initially only sold at prison commissary stores. The chips were so popular amongst ex inmates that it became a grey market commodity and finally was sold to the general public.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

8a4bP TIL that more than 30 Roman emperors (out of ~86) were erased from monuments by decree of the Senate, as a way to erase the names of disgraced individuals from public memory
wlJ8 TIL The first pacemakers had to be plugged into the wall and would fail if there was a blackout.
4XXvo Birds, whales, butterflies, and many other animals have an instinctive sense of which way points North. Even dogs tend to poop in line with the planet's magnetic poles. If they can sense magnetic fields, can we?
mmvR TIL that in August 2001 actor James Woods reported to authorities 4 suspicious males on his flight. Those males were the 911 hijackers on a dry run.
PYnjV TIL that when Charles II escaped from England, he saw some local villagers celebrating his death, mistakenly believing that he had died in another town.