› added 11 years ago

109

TIL cake mix used to contain powdered egg, and only needed water; Betty Crocker made the decision to take it out and sales skyrocketed. Due to housewives feeling that the simple step of adding a real egg somehow made the cake more homemade/authentic, and gave them a sense of contribution.

Read more books.google.co.uk

via reddit.com

xVnJg TIL Physicist Freeman Dyson, who died in late February, was the first to propose advanced aliens would likely build "Dyson Spheres" around their home stars, which are giant shells that capture most of a star's energy to help power an entire interplanetary civilization.
Br96y TIL Team Bondi spent 7 years developing the video game "L.A. Noire" and then they got defunct in 2011 shortly after its release, with it being the only game they developed.
P19DJ TiL it was Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" that popularized the expression "Merry Christmas".
WvaN TIL: Hells Angels attempted to Kill Mick Jagger in 1975. They tried to drive a boat up to the Long Island Mansion he was staying at, however, the boat sank and the Hells Angels ended up having to swim for their lives.
GYDkj TIL: Nazis developed military grade meth that was used heavily by soldiers during the Blitzkrieg.