› added 8 months ago

47

TIL that there are like 12 million full-time influencers in the US right now. That’s 7% of the American workforce.

Read more hbr.org

via reddit.com

yQbwX TIL That all the victims who jumped from the WTC towers were re-classified as "Fallers", and therefore all their deaths were ruled homicides.
Q1jp TIL in 1952 after a good samaritan helped capture notorious bank robber Willie Sutton, NYC Mob Boss Albert Anastasia ordered the man dead after watching an interview with him on TV saying “I can’t stand squealers! Hit that guy!”. The man was killed a few days later. Sutton had no Mob connections
7VeZ TIL that crime has not just been declining for decades, but for centuries.
R9N8 TIL that thousands of cargo containers go missing each year. One contained thousands of edible Doritos packets, and another containing a 8 foot tall Lego man.
gMydb TIL of Juan Garrido, an African conquistador who was involved in the conquest of Mexico with Hernán Cortés and was the first recorded farmer of wheat in the Americas