› added 4 years ago

57

TIL that in the US it is illegal for one company to acquire another for the purposes of absorbing or eliminating the competition.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

0XBj TIL A Man working for the UK Border Agency got back at his wife by placing her on the no-fly-list while she was overseas, thereby stranding her in Pakistan for 3 years.
nerLo TIL Drywall is called “Drywall” because before it, walls were made with plaster layers that were wet and took time to dry between layers. Drywall came in to the market as a faster and cleaner alternative to the “wet wall” process of plaster layers.
WVrL TIL the producers of Belgian Big Brother once placed 100 Tarantulas into the house for house mates to find and catch. In actual fact, they only placed 99.
m1Y0x TIL that alcohol consumption in the U.S. was almost 300% higher in the 1800s, and that whiskey at the time was cheaper than beer, coffee or milk.
E1PL7 TIL in 1977 David Begelman, then head of Columbia Pictures, was caught embezzling $75,000 from the studio. To avoid a scandal he was quietly fired, and three years later became CEO of MGM. The actor who discovered his embezzlement was Blacklisted by the studio for reporting it to the police.