r/todayilearned • u/Sell_The_team_Jerry • 27m ago
TIL Disney's *Fantasia* (1940) was released closer to the composition of most of its iconic classical music than to the present day.
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r/todayilearned • u/haddock420 • 30m ago
TIL Adam DeVine was hit by a cement truck at age 11, breaking every bone in his legs. He spent two weeks in a coma, underwent 26 surgeries, and used a wheelchair during recovery. Today, he supports Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and regularly visits children in hospital.
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r/todayilearned • u/Temp89 • 33m ago
TIL of The Conqueror (1956), a movie filmed downwind of a nuclear test site. 40% of the crew developed cancer, triple the expected rate. Famed magnate and aviator Howard Hughes, who was the movie's producer, felt so guilty he purchased every print of the movie to keep it out of circulation.
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r/todayilearned • u/carboncopy95437 • 53m ago
TIL that when serial killer Ted Bundy was just 3 years old, his 15-year-old aunt awoke from a nap to find kitchen knives arranged around her bed, with young Bundy standing beside her, smiling.
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r/todayilearned • u/Sandstorm400 • 58m ago
TIL: A woman filed a lawsuit after a 1998 visit to a Colorado nail salon, claiming she contracted a form of the herpes virus known as herpetic whitlow on her fingers, along with bacterial infections, from unsterilized tools while receiving a manicure. In 2002, a jury awarded her $3.1 million.
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r/todayilearned • u/RedditIsAGranfaloon • 1h ago
TIL Monty Python's John Cleese’s family name was originally Cheese, but his father changed it from Cheese to Cleese to avoid being teased when he signed up to fight in World War I.
bbcamerica.com
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r/todayilearned • u/Giff95 • 1h ago
TIL on January 30, 1989, Kenneth Noid, believing the Domino’s Pizza mascot mocked him, held an employee at gunpoint. After his arrest and a stay in a mental health facility, the Noid remained in use until 1995, when Kenneth died by suicide. The character has rarely appeared since.
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r/todayilearned • u/Dry-War-9326 • 1h ago
TIL that Earth had naturally occurring nuclear reactors 2 billion years ago. In what is now Gabon, uranium deposits sustained nuclear fission, and evidence suggests one reactor repeatedly switched itself on for about 30 minutes and off for 2 and a half hours
physics.aps.org
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r/todayilearned • u/FactOrFactorial • 2h ago
TIL the oculus rift guy is also a retro handheld gaming guy but is mainly a military industrial supplier guy.
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r/todayilearned • u/Aervanath • 3h ago
TIL that while we can't pinpoint the exact year 65 million years ago in which the Chicxulub asteroid impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, we do know it happened in the spring in the Northern Hemisphere
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r/todayilearned • u/carboncopy95437 • 3h ago
TIL in 1939, 1000’s of children were evacuated from London to the English countryside to escape Nazi bombing. Three girls stayed at the Oxford home of author C.S. Lewis and helped inspire his classic novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, in which children are evacuated to a country house.
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r/todayilearned • u/mintwolves • 3h ago
TIL In 2023 Tomas Lindberg of Melodic Death Metal band 'At The Gates' was diagnosed with Cancer and would require surgery to remove most of the roof of his mouth, he entered the studio and recorded all vocals for future album 'The Ghost of a Future Dead' in a SINGLE day ONE day before surgery.
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r/todayilearned • u/dinozaurs • 3h ago
TIL that in 1985 the English band The Fall released a song titled "I Am Damo Suzuki," in homage to the singer Damo Suzuki from the band Can. The bassist for The Fall said that years later he met Suzuki at a club, who approached him by saying, "I am Damo Suzuki."
en.wikipedia.org
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r/todayilearned • u/FuckASchwarzenegger • 4h ago
PDF TIL Danish is unusually reluctant to respell foreign words: a Nordic study of newspapers from 2000 found that only 7% of modern loanwords were adapted to Danish spelling, compared with 17% in Swedish, 44% in Norwegian and 48% in Icelandic. Danish also had the highest proportion of English loanwords
helda.helsinki.fi
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r/todayilearned • u/247Twunk • 4h ago
TIL only three people in this world can travel anywhere, legally without a passport: King Charles III, Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako.
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r/todayilearned • u/No_Idea_Guy • 4h ago
TIL in 1937 a woman boarded an empty Paris Metro carriage and was found stabbed to death less than 90 seconds later at the next stop. No one else was seen enter or leave the carriage. The victim had been working as a spy. Neither the murderer nor the method of escape was ever discovered.
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r/todayilearned • u/Bright-Surround-747 • 5h ago
TIL that the first benzodiazepine chlordiazepoxide (commonly used for severe alcohol withdrawal) was named Librium, short for equilibrium.
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r/todayilearned • u/Tometek • 5h ago
TIL that from 1544 to 1548, the conquistadors who conquered Peru fought a civil war against the Spanish Crown over laws restricting Indigenous labor. Led by Gonzalo Pizarro, they killed the Spanish viceroy, seized control of Peru, and some even proposed crowning Pizarro king of an independent Peru.
tandfonline.com
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r/todayilearned • u/Sebastianlim • 5h ago
TIL that on October 2nd, 1942, the RMS Queen Mary accidentally collided with the HMS Curacoa, one of her escort ships, sinking it and leading to the deaths of 337 men. A later investigation placed the blame on the Curacoa's crew for the accident.
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r/todayilearned • u/wandering_soles • 6h ago
Navy, not Air Force TIL about the USS Macon (ZRS-5), a flying 'aircraft carrier' built by the U.S. Air Force in the 1930's that carried 5 scout biplanes in internal hangars which were deployed and retrieved in-flight via a retractable hook system.
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r/todayilearned • u/DrakeSavory • 7h ago
TIL that a major fire occurred on the American aircraft carrier USS Oriskany when a seaman accidentally lit a parachute flare and in a panic threw it in a locker where hundreds of flares were stored. Later the Oriskany would be the first American warship to be converted into an artificial reef.
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r/todayilearned • u/Recent_Flounder6011 • 8h ago
TIL that the oldest-known sandals in the world were found in the 1930s dating back to 10,000 years old in Fort Rock in Oregon.
mnch.uoregon.edu
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r/todayilearned • u/RaccoonCityTacos • 9h ago
TIL that in 1941 the National Park Service established 16 "mental healing" camps in national parks for U.S. servicemen to use for rest and recovery before being redeployed to the war. By the end of WWII, 33 camps were set up, including those in Yosemite and the Grand Canyon.
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r/todayilearned • u/c00lture • 9h ago
TIL that in 1990, the creators of a comedy series formed the “Polish Beer-Lovers' Party” as a joke to promote beer drinking over vodka. It ended up winning 16 seats in Parliament during the 1991 elections.
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r/todayilearned • u/conlanyoo • 10h ago
TIL that historian Shekhar Pathak led a decadal foot expedition called the "Askot-Arakot Abhiyan," walking over 1,150 kilometers across the length of the Himalayas every ten years (starting in 1974) to document the environmental and social changes in rural mountain villages.
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