› added 3 months ago

14

TIL: A 2018 study in the UK found that 70% of women in workplaces were bullied by other women known as "Queen Bees". They are women with aggressive behaviors such as gossiping, exclusion, and stealing friends/partners to get ahead. One consultant describes them as adult "Mean Girls".

Read more globalnews.ca

via reddit.com

nWE8b TIL: The Iran Blizzard of February 1972, recorded as the deadliest in history, took over 4,000 lives during a week-long storm burying southern Iran under 7.9 meters of snow. The catastrophe unfolded after four years of drought, leaving a profound impact on the region.
1M5V TIL The pattern on the moth, on The Silence of the Lambs poster, is actually 7 naked ladies from a Salvador Dali painting
kVG5 TIL Grapes always become wine when pressed. It wasn’t until 1869 that physician Thomas Welch created a way to stop the fermentation. He later founded Welch’s Grape Juice.
7rBnX TIL of Kiritimati (Christmas) Island in the Central Pacific Ocean- population: 6500. Its villages are named London, Paris, Poland, and Banana.
J1ORB TIL "RE Engine", a game engine developed originally for Resident Evil 7, does not stand for "Resident Evil Engine" but actually stands for "REach for the moon Engine."