› added 2 weeks ago

4

TIL supermarkets put fruits and veggies right at the entrance so you feel like you’ve made a healthy choice — giving you permission to grab junk food later without guilt. Meanwhile, essentials like milk are way at the back, forcing you to walk past all the snacks.

Read more bbc.co.uk

via reddit.com

VBgnZ TIL that 12 million barrels of oil are used to produce plastic bags in the U.S.
KVJ4 TIL that in 1948, the citizens of Nanking, including the mayor himself, raised a very large sum of money for John Rabe after learning that he was in poverty in occupied Germany, because of his efforts to stop the atrocities during the Nanking Massacre in 1937 within the Safety Zone.
l7xE1 TIL Christopher Nolan's brother Matthew was charged with murder in 2009 after allegedly creating a fake identity using the name 'Oppenheimer'
R5WD7 TIL In 1984 "Baby Fae" received a baboon heart transplant at just 11 days old and survived 21 days before rejecting it.
YxAr TIL that economists have discovered that insider knowledge of top-secret CIA coups has been used to make huge financial profits