› added 1 year ago

110

TIL that as CEO of Walmart US, Greg Foran would go undercover as a shopper

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Wk8XY TIL: that in 1937 Hallie Latham disappeared and her body wasn't discovered until 3 years later by fishermen in Crescent Lake in Washington State, and due to the cold water and minerals in the Lake her body had been perfectly preserved and turned into a soap like substance.
mxErO TIL there is a fierce rivalry between the neighbouring English counties of Cornwall & Devon, with each claiming to have invented 'pasties', and each insisting the other is wrong regarding whether to put jam or cream first on scones.
b9K97 TIL that the people of the Åland Islands wanted to be annexed by Sweden, but the Swedish government was preoccupied, so they sent them off to the LoN, where a Japanese-influenced delegation handed them over to Finland with a justification they hoped they could use to justify their own imperialism
ANGwB TIL kites can kill people?
xrEw TIL Japan’s occupation of Hong Kong back in WWII caused the population to drop from 1.6 million to 600,000 in just three years.