› added 5 years ago

153

TIL that 19 June is the anniversary of the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the first U.S. civilians to be sentenced to death for espionage.

Read more infoplease.com

via reddit.com

eJdD TIL about Norman Borlaug who was an American agronomist and humanitarian, Borlaug was often called “the father of the Green Revolution” and is credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation.
jN1Ma TIL that the IKEA effect is an actual cognitive bias in which consumers place more value on products they themselves created at least partially.
yV5Gp TIL that the southern Appalachian Mountain region has areas that qualify as a temperate rainforest
0deXM TIL about the “Bionic Chef”, Eduardo Garcia, who was electrocuted by a 2,400V electrified baby black bear while alone in the Montana wilderness, costing him his hand due to the resulting burns and infection
DyVD TIL that in 2008, Italy spent $65,000,000 to bail out the Parmesan cheese industry