› added 6 months ago

21

TIL a Giffen good is a product that people consume more of as the price rises and vice versa, violating the law of demand.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

1a548 TIL that Dumb and Dumber To and Daddy's Home were funded using money stolen from a Malaysian government investment fund.
4ka6g TIL that during the Cephalonia massacre in WWII, after executing most of the Italian officers that had surrendered to them, the Germans forced 20 Italian sailors to take the bodies out to sea in rafts. They then blew up the rafts with the sailors still on them.
69MxX TIL after his journey from Japan in 1614, English sailor John Saris returned home with 'Japanese erotic art'. The incident ended his career as a merchant.
m9rE TIL Actress Veronica Lake, famous for her “peek a boo” hairstyle with one eye covered, changed her style during WWII in order to encourage women to adopt safer hairstyles when working in factories.
WkrjN TIL Freddie Mercury was actually Bisexual and was qouted as saying that a women was the love of his life.