› added 4 years ago

144

TIL two men sued Aunt Jemima for failing to pay royalties only to lose after having no proof they were heirs of the model Aunt Jemima is based upon.

Read more eater.com

via reddit.com

GAXZ1 TIL that it is extremely difficult to measure (short) time scales
4X0A5 TIL that Judith Barsi, 10 year old child actress known for ‘A Land Before Time’ and other titles, was shot and killed by her own father in a tragic murder-suicide.
d8Gpj TIL Operation Alaska, Finalaska or New Finland was a proposed plan to evacuate entire Finnish population (3.8 million) to Alaska during the WW2
EgMmp TIL that in 1999, PETA, as part of its McCruelty campaign, attempted to distribute bloody Unhappy Meals to young audiences. They also released a comic book in which Ronald McDonald, Grimace, and the Hamburglar unite to kill Birdie's parents, feed them to her unknowingly, then eat her as well.
e0mob TIL Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" was never about the meatpacking industry. Sinclair intended it as a "breaking of human hearts by a system which exploits the labor of men and women for profit".