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TIL Minimum wage has only increased by $7.00 in 85 years in the USA.

Upon inception it was set at $0.25. It is now $7.25.

TIL that Mississippi did not make child-selling illegal until 2009, after a woman tried to sell her granddaughter for $2,000 and a car and it was discovered that there was no law to punish her under.

TIL that Proctor & Gamble and Unilever actively sponsor Russian war efforts and are on the International Sponsors of War list.

They own brands such as Pampers, Olay, Old Spice, Pantene, Oral B, Herbal Essences, Gilette, Dove, Hellmann’s, Axe, Knorr, Magnum, Breyers, and Lipton, among others....

TIL you can edit your post title on lemmy unlike reddit

TIL that France and Spain are in the wrong time zone because of Nazis.

France was put on to German time when conquered by Nazi Germany....

TIL There was a monument in Georgia that gives instructions in 8 languages on how to rebuild society after an apocalyptic event, while also functioning as a compass, calendar, and clock.

TIL The Goodhart's Law: Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.

Here is the Wikipedia link.

TIL that 1604, King James I wrote ‘A Counterblaste to Tobacco’, in which he described smoking as a ‘custome lothesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs.

TIL the word "vamoose" is an Americanization of the Spanish word "vamos" for "let's go".

Obligatory vamoose you little varmint.

c/TIL: Letter to Members & Community Feedback [META]

Hello everyone! Welcome to Today I Learned....

TIL Black Panthers are not a real species. They are jaguars and leopards who have “Melanism”, which causes them to have black skin. It's the opposite effect of having albinism.

TIL in Portugal you can get an unlimited national rail pass for €49 🚂

euronews.com/…/want-to-travel-portugal-by-train-n…

TIL that I saved a 13 year old post from the old place that lists all the free web learning courses. He updated it for quite a while. Why don't we fix it?

General Sites:...

TIL that In World War II, British spies plotted to spike Hitler's food with estrogen to make him less aggressive.

TIL Chinese astronauts are called taikonauts

I thought that the distinction existed only between Americans (astronauts) and Russians (cosmonauts), but no, Chinese also have their own term. I guess Indians should come up with their own, as well =)

TIL: The most living generations at once was 7, back in 1989. They each had their child between 18 to 20yrs of age

I was trying to figure out how many generations could theoretically exist at the same time, so I decided to first check Guinness. Hopefully I did all the math correctly.

TIL In Google Maps on mobile, you can tilt the view angle by moving two fingers up or down

I knew the tilt functionally had been there forever on Desktop, but no idea the gesture existed on the mobile App…

TIL that the first person to receive a speeding ticket was going 8 mph.

According to Guinness World Records, the first person charged with speeding was Walter Arnold from Paddock Wood, Kent. On 28 January 1896, Arnold was seen going 4 times the allowed 2 mph speed limit in his Benz. The constable pursued him on his bicycle, issuing a ticket for £4 7s (roughly £260 in today’s money), of which 10...

The Japanese developers of Puck-Man changed the name to Pac-Man when porting it to North America to avoid a scenario where the "P" in Puck Man would be changed to an "F", forming an obscene name.

Eyeing the game’s success in Japan, Namco initialized plans to bring the game to the international market, particularly the United States.[26] Before showing the game to distributors, Namco America made a number of changes, such as altering the names of the ghosts.[26] The biggest of these was the game’s title; executives at...

TIL You can see all of the Lemmy community comments and posts that have been removed at the bottom of the sidebar.

It’s called Modlog in the Monitoring Stats section....

TIL in 1980 the FBI formed a fake company and attempted to bribe members of congress. Nearly 25% of those tested accepted the bribe, and were convicted.

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