› added 5 years ago

527

TIL: The Canadian government took 150,000 indigenous children from there families and placed them in church run schools to forcibly assimilate them.

Read more bbc.com

via reddit.com

695ZY TIL: Michael Jackson, Mark Wahlberg, and Seth MacFarlane narrowly escaped death on 9/11
GA7jQ TIL about shrinkflation, the practice of stealthily reducing a product's size while maintaining its price so that consumers may unknowingly pay the same for less. According to the UK’s Office of National Statistics, 2,529 supermarket products decreased in size or weight between 2012 and 2017.
xjLg TIL in WWII 1000 Japanese soldiers had to walk 10 miles down a shark, python, and crocodile infested river. Only 20 men survived
Y7PRB TIL the world's largest organism is a fungus.
R7JN6 TIL about the Southern Bread Riots. Mostly women, protesting huge surges in food costs during the Civil War, rioted in Richmond, VA with chants of "bread or blood!" Food prices had soared to prices ten times higher than normal in many instances. Among the items stolen was 500 lbs of bacon.