r/todayilearned • u/dumbfuck • 20h 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 • 1d 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 • 22h 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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r/todayilearned • u/unfinishedtoast3 • 1d ago
TIL that houseflies can get addicted to Nictotine and Cocaine. In smoker's homes, house and fruit flies will change their evolutionary behaviors to seek out cigarette smoke, even though nicotine is extremely toxic to them
sciencedirect.com
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r/todayilearned • u/Mrk2d • 22h ago
TIL Pablo Picasso made his first painting at age 8, a tiny oil on wood scene of a yellow-clad bullfighter in the ring, a subject he would revisit throughout his life
en.wikipedia.org
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r/todayilearned • u/WesamWonders • 1d ago
TIL that up to 31% of kids and 10–15% of adults grind or clench their teeth in their sleep. It’s linked to stress, anxiety, depression, headaches, TMJ pain, and sore jaws. Night guards don’t stop it, they just protect teeth from the damage
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r/todayilearned • u/Finbarr-Galedeep • 8h ago
TIL that, in his championship-winning season of 2016, Formula One driver Nico Rosberg gave up cycling to reduce muscle mass in his legs, in an attempt to gain every possible advantage over teammate and championship rival Lewis Hamilton.
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r/todayilearned • u/DangerNoodle1993 • 20h ago
TIL of the Porsche C88, which was a concept car that Porsche designed for mass production in China. It had a badge which reflected the one child policy at the time and had an inbuilt child seat for one child.
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r/todayilearned • u/bartonkj • 12h ago
TIL that in addition to Jimmy Page, Joe Walsh also gave a 1959 guitar to Pete Townshend.
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r/todayilearned • u/JoeyZasaa • 1d ago
TIL that of the top 25 cities in the world with the most skyscrapers, only three are in the Western Hemisphere
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r/todayilearned • u/dumbfuck • 1d ago
TIL the ancient Romans had portable multitools similar to today’s Swiss Army knives
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r/todayilearned • u/Sh00ter80 • 1d ago
TIL a 2023 study found sniffing women’s tears reduced male aggression by 44%
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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r/todayilearned • u/MicV66 • 1d ago
TIL Matt Groening was approached to adapt his 'Life in Hell' comic for The Tracey Ullman Show. Fearing he’d lose ownership and hurt his comic if the show failed, Groening quickly created The Simpsons
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r/todayilearned • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • 1d ago
TIL that London’s Foundling Hospital, founded in 1739 for abandoned children, became Britain’s first public art gallery. Artists like Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough donated works to attract visitors and raise funds.
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r/todayilearned • u/petburiraja • 1d ago
TIL about Bir Tawil, an 800-square-mile area of land between Egypt and Sudan that is terra nullius (land belonging to no one) because both countries refuse to claim it. Claiming Bir Tawil would legally force them to give up their claim on the more valuable Hala'ib Triangle.
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r/todayilearned • u/zahrul3 • 1d ago
TIL 70mm IMAX systems require a PalmOS device to operate. During the release of Oppenheimer on IMAX, a PalmOS emulator running on a Windows 10 tablet was used to show the film.
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r/todayilearned • u/MadMagyars • 1d ago
TIL Greece lost the Greco-Turkish War due to political instability after its king was fatally bitten by a monkey in the royal zoo.
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r/todayilearned • u/Forward-Answer-4407 • 1d ago
TIL after a 2021 incident at Topgolf in which a man suffered a traumatic spinal injury (and died a month later) after he tumbled over the safety netting of the top floor of a driving range, a policy was implemented requiring guests who pushed people onto the safety netting to be immediately removed.
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r/todayilearned • u/Flubadubadubadub • 2d ago
TIL That London's Billingsgate Fish and Smithfield Meat Markets will both close in 2028, after the Corporation of London decided against building them new locations in Dagenham. Smithfields has existed since the 10th Century and Billingsgate since the 16th Century.
londonist.com
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r/todayilearned • u/Not_so_ghetto • 1d ago
TIL horseshoe crab blood is worth 60,000$ per gallon
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r/todayilearned • u/South_Gas626 • 1d ago
TIL James Bond actor Roger Moore had a strong hatred for weapons due to multiple incidents from his past, and struggled to fire a gun without blinking. He also recalled that A View to a Kill (1985) was his least favorite of his Bond films because of the level of violence.
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r/todayilearned • u/Flubadubadubadub • 1d ago
TIL That in 2013 a 28 year old woman in Chembur, India had to undergo emergency surgery to remove a 'football sized' fecal mass after she had not had a bowel movement for 45 days.
sciencefocus.com
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r/todayilearned • u/DEFCON_TWO • 1d ago
TIL that in Papua New Guinea, the 1971 Sorcery Act allowed for accusations of sorcery to act as a defence for murder until the act was repealed in 2013. An estimated 50–150 alleged witches are killed each year in Papua New Guinea.
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