› added 4 years ago

128

TIL in 1920, candy store owner Christian Kent Nelson, unable to decide between ice cream and chocolate bars, invented an ice cream brick with chocolate coating. He secured an agreement with local chocolate producer Russell C. Stover to mass-produce them under the new trademarked name "Eskimo Pie".

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

vPB94 TIL that "Zombie Firms" are companies experiencing financial distress, unable to meet their debt obligations yet persisting in operations, raising concerns about their viability, especially with the prospect of rising interest rates.
nWV7d TIL in 1968, students at a French university staged protests against bans on dormitory visits that prevented male and female students from sleeping together. After police violence, 10 million workers joined the strike—more than 20% of the population—effectively shutting down the country.
W7vZY TIL that advances in single-cell metabolomics have made it possible to reprogram the fate of cells. By altering the metabolites in a cell, scientists can change an epidermal cell into a neural cell and vice versa, offering potential breakthroughs in regenerative medicine.
oBVeK TIL Jello Biafra, best known as the lead singer of the punk rock band Dead Kennedy’s, ran for the Green Party’s presidential nomination in 2000. Some of his ideas included lowering the voting age to 5 and abolishing the military.
mxP1Y TIL of John Monash, an Australian WWI general who was so good at organising battles and overseeing the wellbeing of his troops, that during the Battle of Hamel in 1918, he managed to arrange the delivery of hot meals to troops, even up to the front line.