› added 7 years ago

125

TIL that red pigment (carmine) in most foods is made from crushed insects called cochinaels.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VlR4 TIL that Steve Jobs was really unhygienic: he thought that by eating only fruit the need to shower was eliminated, so he stopped showering. When he worked for Atari, his boss assigned him the night shift so that he wouldn’t need to interact with other people.
PYxVg TIL "Fan Death" is a widely-held belief in South Korea that leaving an electric fan on overnight will kill a person. Even The Korea Consumer Protection Board issued a warning that "asphyxiation from electric fans and air conditioners" was among S.Korea's five most common summer accidents or injuries
88BX TIL Google has been buying, on average, more than one company per week since 2010.
W7rOX TIL that Ignaz Semmelweis, the "saviour of mothers" who pionereed antiseptic protocols at a maternity ward in the 1800's, was ridiculed to such a degree for his findings that clean hands reduced deadly infections, that he was committed to an asylum where he died 2 week later at the age of 47.
JbJm TIL a slave during the 1800s transatlantic slave trade cost 400X what a slave costs today on average