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TIL Stupidity is in essence not an intellectual defect but a moral one

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8pLL TIL Goodwill is a multibillion dollar company, but pays some of it’s disabled workers as little as 22 cents an hour due to a legal loophole.
v9L TIL Rolex is a lot of hype and became expensive during the 80’s with ‘yuppies’ buying them up. They also are not handmade and are mass produced.
OlM7 TIL that from 1952 to 1956, billions of Kent Micronite cigarettes were sold with a filter made from asbestos. The new filter was marketed as “the greatest health protection in cigarette history.”
KOByB TIL that in 1876, Sigmund Freud dissected 400 eels looking for testicles. To this day, the eel's mating habits remain a scientific mystery.
egdg TIL King Harald of Norway vowed to remain unmarried for life unless he could marry his true love, the daughter of a cloth merchant. She became the Queen of Norway.