› added 11 months ago

41

TIL Battle of the Overpass occurred in 1937 when UAW organizers tried to hand out unionization leaflets but were attacked by Ford's quasi-military security service. Ford then tried to destroy the photographic evidence but one photographer managed to sneak some out under the back seat of his car.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

loGk1 TIL the US patent office actually granted a patent on Indian Basmati rice to the prince of Liechtenstein (an alpine European microstate), in a case of "bio-piracy." The patent was eventually revoked after an international outcry.
m1mmY TIL shrinkflation also applies to subscription-based business models and changes the periodicity of the billing. The billing rhythm makes you think nothing has changed. Before, you were billed monthly (so 12 times a year). Now you are billed every 4 weeks. There are 13 times 4 weeks in a year
5a6R TIL a Doctor in Australia 3D printed a mans vertebrae and successfully installed the components. Not only that but they were two highly-specialised vertebrae that are involved in the flexion and rotation of the cranium.
Ed7W TIL Newman’s own foods donates 100% of its post tax profits to charity. As of June 2012 these donations have exceeded 330 million dollars.
Z8X8G TIL about Scheele’s Green, a popular pigment in the 1800s made with deadly arsenic. One famous death was of a flowermaker, who dusted the pigment onto fake foliage. “She vomited green waters; the whites of her eyes had turned green, and she told her doctor that ‘everything she looked at was green.’”