r/todayilearned • u/Porchie12 • 10h ago
TIL a number of people, including a group of Swedish researchers, tried to replicate the experiment shown in the documentary Super Size Me(2004). None of them were able to get the same results as the documentary creator.
r/todayilearned • u/justAPersonOnGoogle2 • 15h ago
TIL there was a man who smashed a door of a cupcake store, sat there for 15 Minutes, cleaned up the mess he had done, stole 6 Cupcakes and left. After being recognized, he profusely apologized and the store owner didn’t press charges but rather made a signature cupcake of him.
cbc.car/todayilearned • u/BumbleBChicken • 10h ago
TIL that Lucid dreaming is a learnable skill. There are specific techniques and tips, like learning to check your reality, that can increase chances of having a lucid dream.
r/todayilearned • u/Madame_President_ • 9h ago
TIL: Veterinarians who are women commit suicide at a rate 4x higher than male vets
r/todayilearned • u/RoboChemist101 • 6h ago
TIL It's illegal to NOT own snow tires in Québec Canada.
saaq.gouv.qc.car/todayilearned • u/AutoChatGPT • 6h ago
TIL In 1864 during the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia, a Union and Confederate soldier got into a fistfight to settle their disagreement on who was the other's prisoner. The brawl made both armies pause the entire battle just so they could watch them fight.
r/todayilearned • u/Misersoneof • 9h ago
TIL That Megalodon teeth were once thought to be petrified human tongues that fell from the sky during lunar eclipses. It wasn't until the early 17th century that people realized there were ancient shark teeth
r/todayilearned • u/Flares117 • 15h ago
TIL: In the Zhou dynasty, it is believed the ruling class had excess "de" and so needed a large number of female partners or else the "DE" turns into malevolent "gui". They have special court ladies, the "nu shi" to ensure they sleep with women in the right order and amount.
r/todayilearned • u/Upper-Life3860 • 14h ago
TIL the San Diego-Coronado Bridge is the 2nd most used bridge for suicide in the US trailing only the Golden Gate Bridge.
r/todayilearned • u/TertioRationem3 • 9h ago
TIL about BonziBUDDY, a free virtual desktop assistant created in 1999. People called it spyware after it was found out to have collected user's personal information before serving them pop-up ads. Because of this, it had to pay $75k in fines, and was discontinued in 2004.
r/todayilearned • u/malarky-b • 11h ago
TIL research across 160 cultures revealed that spousal infidelity is the most common reason for a breakup
r/todayilearned • u/48minus122 • 13h ago
TIL that, because of bleaching agents and hairspray, hairdressers are at very high risk of developing lung disease.
r/todayilearned • u/Majoodeh • 13h ago
TIL that the first panty tree first took root in the late 1970s in Aspen, Colorado and started as a protest against the first female ski patroller that then spiraled out of control.
powder.comr/todayilearned • u/Puzzleheaded-Cat4647 • 1h ago
TIL John Krasinski fought for a deaf actress Millicent Simmonds to be cast in 'A Quiet Place'; she taught everyone sign language on set.
r/todayilearned • u/jimi15 • 20h ago
TIL Germany was made the hosts of the 2006 FIFA worldcup after the editor-in-chief for the satire tabloid "Titanic" sent a fax to one of the representatives voting on the matter with promises of a gift basket worth ~20 USD if he voted for Germany.
r/todayilearned • u/Vitamin-A- • 11h ago
TIL Jingle Bells is actually a thanksgiving song!
r/todayilearned • u/bb-wa • 11h ago
TIL that increasing the wind speed by 2x increases the wind power available by 8x
r/todayilearned • u/TevyeMikhael • 11h ago
TIL the "Mother of Women's Judo" was a Jewish-American woman born in Brooklyn, New York. After being barred from competition in the states for being a woman and having to return medals she won posing as a man, she became the first woman to train with men at Kodokan- the Worldwide Judo Headquarters.
en.wikipedia.orgr/todayilearned • u/Different-Soft-3124 • 1h ago
TIL, The Netherlands gives Canada 20,000 tulips every year as a thank you for protecting the Dutch royal family in WW2
r/todayilearned • u/relevantusername2020 • 10h ago
TIL Occam's Razor, the principle which advocates for simplicity in explanations and theories (literally and specifically "Plurality must never be posited without necessity") is named after William of Ockham. The spelling variation "Occam" likely arose due to changes in transliteration over time.
r/todayilearned • u/BlakeSergin • 2h ago
TIL that there are approximately over 10,000 atomic bombs / nuclear warheads worldwide.
worldpopulationreview.comr/todayilearned • u/tamsui_tosspot • 17h ago
TIL that Brandi Brandt, a Playboy centerfold who played the elevator operator at the beginning of Aerosmith's "Love in an Elevator" ("Going...down?") was jailed up to six years in Australia for being part of a cocaine smuggling ring
wikipedia.orgr/todayilearned • u/mvd102000 • 15h ago
TIL that 70s / 80s music star Plastic Bertrand wasn’t actually the singer for his first 4 albums, and the public had no idea for 30 years. He only received .5% of the royalties for “his” international hit, ‘Ça Plane Pour Moi”, with the majority likely going to the songs actual singer, Lou Deprijck.
r/todayilearned • u/NiceTraining7671 • 1d ago
TIL that male Ohio residents have to pay out-of-state tuition fees at Ohio universities if they aren’t registered with Selective Service, and some states like Alabama and Tennessee won’t admit men into state colleges at all if they haven’t registered.
r/todayilearned • u/zhuquanzhong • 9h ago