› added 4 years ago

61

TIL that Trader Joe’s is owned by the Aldi Group.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

wLmNY TIL About Walther Wenck, the German commander put in charge of saving Berlin from soviet forces in spring 1945. Understanding the futility of this effort, as they had no resources and were facing soviet wrath, he instead evacuated hundreds of thousands of citizens and surrendered to the Americans.
OoY1R TIL a brand name becoming 'genericized' can lead to the creator losing copyright. For this reason, companies desperately try to avoid their product names becoming the generic term for an item like Band-Aid or Photoshopped.
R7gWj TIL in 1971 John List murdered his family to save their souls and arranged their bodies on sleeping bags. He then cleaned up, cut himself out of the family’s photos, turned on a religious radio station, and fled. Only after the lights in the house had burned out one by one did neighbors call police.
xnwB TIL that the peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on earth with top speeds reaching up to 220 mph.
EBJd TIL: Scoring a condor is the rarest event in golf. This is normally a hole in one at a par five and only four condors have ever been recorded: