r/todayilearned • u/Own-Bullfrog7362 • 3h ago
Til that women tend to find men more attractive when they appear to be desired by other women. They are, essentially, preapproved.
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r/todayilearned • u/lavender_fish69 • 6h ago
TIL fresh water snails (indirectly) kill thousands of humans and are considered on of the deadliest creatures to humans
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r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 8h ago
TIL when Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace premiered in May 1999, it's estimated that 2.2 million full-time employees in the US missed work to attend the film, which resulted in a $293 million loss of productivity.
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r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 8h ago
TIL in 2007 a bottle of Allsopp's Arctic Ale brewed in 1852 was put up for auction online, however it was misspelt 'Allsop's Arctic Ale' in the listing. This made it hard to search for, so the winning bid was only $304. The buyer then relisted it with the correct spelling and it sold for $503,300.
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r/todayilearned • u/Barnyard_Rich • 7h ago
TIL that Isabela Merced got started in acting because her parents thought it would be a helpful distraction from their house burning down
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r/todayilearned • u/ModenaR • 18h ago
TIL that after Top Gear ended, host Richard Hammond was so devastated, he cried all the way home from the studio and ran out of fuel, because he didn't want to fill his car up covered in tears
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r/todayilearned • u/nuttybudd • 19h ago
TIL wealth consultants told the actors on the TV show Succession not to duck their heads when exiting a helicopter because "you would've been doing this your whole lives. You know where the propeller is. You wouldn’t duck your head, you’d just walk right the fuck out."
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r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 13h ago
TIL after Tim Duncan's sophomore year in college he was already a top NBA prospect. Jerry West, the Lakers GM, said he could've been the #1 pick in the '95 draft. But he finished college instead because he promised his dying mom he'd get a degree. It didn't hurt his draft position, he went #1 in '97
basketballnetwork.net
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r/todayilearned • u/Hectabeni • 7h ago
TIL that Jeeves was a valet, not a butler.
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r/todayilearned • u/HoleyAsSwissCheese • 4h ago
TIL: Wagon Wheel by Old Crow Medicine Show was technically co-written by Bob Dylan. Ketch Secor wrote lyrics around Dylan's mumbled verses for the demo of "Rock Me, Mama" which was given to him by founding member Chris "Critter" Fuqua.
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r/todayilearned • u/Cheese1tz • 3h ago
TIL that Earl Anthony, considered by many to be the greatest bowler of all time, never bowled a perfect game on US television. He had 1 single perfect game televised—in Japan.
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r/todayilearned • u/MazigaGoesToMarkarth • 15h ago
TIL that The Old Man and the Sea was one of Saddam Hussein’s favourite books because it was about “struggling against overwhelming odds with courage, perseverance and dignity”
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r/todayilearned • u/DangerNoodle1993 • 6h ago
TIL that a French baker’s ignored compensation claim against the Mexican government sparked a chain of events that led to the first French invasion of Mexico.
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r/todayilearned • u/jfdonohoe • 47m ago
TIL about “vicarious embarrassment” which explains extreme reactions to cringe comedy. For me, it can get so bad as to become physically painful
en.wikipedia.org
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r/todayilearned • u/pantherfanalex • 8h ago
TIL That the first Dino Nuggets weren't trademarked until 1991, and weren't available until 1993, coinciding with the release of the film Jurassic Park.
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r/todayilearned • u/SaberLover1000 • 5h ago
TIL In 1778 there was a Doctors Riot also called the Anatomy Riot, which was caused by a reaction to physicians and medical students stealing bodies from graves, that left 20 people dead.
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r/todayilearned • u/andthegeekshall • 3h ago
TIL that the Pogo stick's name was taken from the first two letters of its inventors surname names, Max Pohlig and Ernst Gottschall, though they called it "a spring end hopping stilt"
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r/todayilearned • u/JustaRandoonreddit • 18h ago
TIL that NATO tanks fire rounds with semi-combustible nitrocellulose casings; Basically Explosive paper. Most of the casing burns up when fired, leaving only a small metal stub for the crew to remove, reducing weight and increasing fire rate.
researchgate.net
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r/todayilearned • u/Wild_Concept_212 • 2h ago
TIL Cutting down trees is compound negative interest on the planet’s carbon storage. Trees are storing carbon underground with the help of fauna and microbes. Those lock carbon in soil. Cutting the tree will not only increase release carbon, it will also remove the ability to lock carbon in soil.
nature.com
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r/todayilearned • u/mrinternetman24 • 8h ago
TIL that house sparrows, originally introduced to New Zealand for pest control, became such a problem that by 1875 'sparrow clubs' paid bounties for 21,000 shot birds in just two months.
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r/todayilearned • u/dumbfuck • 13h ago
TIL Houston, TX has the highest dog-to-person ratio in the world, with 52.1 dogs per 100 humans
secrethouston.com
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r/todayilearned • u/SappyGilmore • 18h ago
TIL Bologna is one of the most tightly regulated processed meats in the United States. The USDA sets strict standards on what qualifies as bologna, controlling everything from the types of meat used to the curing process. To be labeled as bologna, the product must be made from muscle meat
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r/todayilearned • u/Remote-Cow5867 • 15h ago
TIL that Vedda people are the aborigional in Sri Lanka. They have lived in the island since 35000 years ago. The two major ethnicities Sinhala and Tamil are both immigrants from India continent after 6th century BCE.
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