TIL about Janusz Korczak, an educator who refused offers of sanctuary in 1943 and chose to accompany nearly 200 children from his orphanage when they were deported to a death camp. He was never heard from again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Korczak #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mv0med/til_about_janusz_korczak_an_educator_who_refused/

TIL that Portugal produces over half the world’s cork, being home to the largest cork forest and responsible for around 60–70 % of cork exports. https://www.trafalgar.com/real-word/fun-facts-about-portugal/ #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mqovkl/til_that_portugal_produces_over_half_the_worlds/

TIL 60,000 attended Carmen Miranda’s memorial and over 500,000 joined her funeral procession. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Miranda #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mv1c16/til_60000_attended_carmen_mirandas_memorial_and/

TIL that Gary Kremen, the founder of Match.com, actually lost his own girlfriend after she met another man on the dating app. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kremen #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mv4207/til_that_gary_kremen_the_founder_of_matchcom/

TIL (well, yesterday) that the song Red, Red Wine was originally written and sung by Neil Diamond, not UB40. https://youtu.be/tFyNHpNlECI?si=tN6vr3dQinhJmG9x #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mq8nml/til_well_yesterday_that_the_song_red_red_wine_was/

TIL that in Ancient Rome, urine was used as a cleaning product and even taxed by the government. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/from-gunpowder-to-teeth-whitener-the-science-behind-historic-uses-of-urine-442390/ #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1morbpq/til_that_in_ancient_rome_urine_was_used_as_a/

TIL the mobile game "Send Me to Heaven" involved throwing your phone as high in the air as you can. The creator made it with the hope of destroying as many iPhones as possible, but Apple banned it from the App Store. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send_Me_to_Heaven #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1muzwpy/til_the_mobile_game_send_me_to_heaven_involved/

TIL Peter Thiel became a New Zealand citizen in 2011 despite only spending 12 days in the country. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/29/new-zealand-releases-peter-thiel-citizenship-details.html #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mo59we/til_peter_thiel_became_a_new_zealand_citizen_in/

TIL about William Ellison, a black American slaveowner who owned white slaves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ellison#Manumissions?wprov=sfla1 #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mpbghw/til_about_william_ellison_a_black_american/

TIL Red bricks from St Louis are of very good quality, and brick thieves sometimes rip apart buildings to take their bricks. https://www.stlmag.com/St-Louis-Brick-Thieves/ #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mmpr41/til_red_bricks_from_st_louis_are_of_very_good/

TIL traditional Haggis is banned in America for containing sheep lung. In 1971 it became illegal to consume lung. Haggis is no longer brought from UK to US. Haggis can still be made in USA, but not using sheep lungs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggis#Legality #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mm1wf0/til_traditional_haggis_is_banned_in_america_for/

TIL Unit 731, the Japanese military's medical experimentation research facility in Harbin, China and other branches during WWII, had no surviving prisoners from the experiments and the leaders of the unit weren't prosecuted in exchange for the information they learned from their experiments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mn0g35/til_unit_731_the_japanese_militarys_medical/

TIL $2000 is not enough to have a proper job done in the assassination business https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C1ych583TI&ab_channel=FOX11LosAngeles #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mlx38p/til_2000_is_not_enough_to_have_a_proper_job_done/

TIL that the Gulf of Mexico is supposedly now “The gulf of USA” 😐- super late to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico%E2%80%93America_naming_dispute #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ml87y8/til_that_the_gulf_of_mexico_is_supposedly_now_the/

TIL CEO Dan Price cut his $1.1M salary to $70K so all employees would earn at least that much. Critics called him a “socialist lunatic" and predicted the company would go bankrupt but the move paid off: Revenue tripled, employee turnover fell, workers paid off debt, bought homes and started families https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-51332811 #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ml4l89/til_ceo_dan_price_cut_his_11m_salary_to_70k_so/

TIL That Cop killer Donald Eugene Webb was on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted list for longer than anyone else at the time, and never captured. Turns out the reason for that is his wife was secretly hiding him at her own house and after he died she buried him on her property. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Eugene_Webb #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1m6aj5l/til_that_cop_killer_donald_eugene_webb_was_on_the/