› added 2 years ago

86

TIL chocolate milk does not come from brown cows

Read more happymag.tv

via reddit.com

newEG TIL about Nicolas Antoine, who attempted to convert to Judaism in the 1620s and then became a Calvinist pastor in the Canton of Geneva while secretly practising the Jewish worship. He ended up being burned at the stake for heresy on 1632
N7Q0M TIL: In 1963, major league baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, an hour after Neil Armstrong set foot on the surface of the moon, Perry hit is first, and only, home run while playing for the San Francisco Giants.
nWaBo TIL A 2021 study found that people who have experienced financial indebtedness are 2.5x more likely to commit suicide
7r6br TIL A man named beneficiaries in his will by picking 70 random names out of a phone book. His estate included a 12-room apartment in Lisbon, a house, a luxury car, two motorcycles, and money in bank accounts. Each beneficiary received several thousand euros.
OOWX TIL that Google has been using money-shifting strategies known to lawyers as the “Double Irish” and the “Dutch Sandwich” to help reduce its tax rate down to 2.4 percent.