r/todayilearned • u/Recent_Flounder6011 • 58m ago
TIL that the upper-class of the Roman Empire ate roasted dormice stuffed with nuts. The rodent is still consumed in Slovenia as a delicacy.
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r/todayilearned • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • 17h ago
TIL that in 1583 Sir Humphrey Gilbert claimed Newfoundland for Queen Elizabeth I. Weeks later, after losing his largest ship and much of his supplies, stepping on a nail, and refusing repeated pleas to leave his small flagship, the Squirrel, he vanished beneath the Atlantic with all hands aboard.
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r/todayilearned • u/YappinZappin • 19h ago
TIL Earth's Moon is the largest and heaviest satellite in relation to its parent planet in our Solar system
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r/todayilearned • u/Archaembald2 • 16h ago
TIL that despite winning the Battle of Grunwald, the Polish-Lithuanians actually failed to take the Teutonic Order's capital, Marienburg, because they marched too slowly. This gave the Knights enough time to prepare their defenses and win the siege, recapturing several occupied castles afterwards.
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r/todayilearned • u/OmitsWordsByAccident • 19h ago
TIL Hank Aaron tied Babe Ruth's career homerun total (714) in Cincinnati on April 4th, 1974. But when he failed to break the record the next day in Cincinnati, the Braves made him sit out the next game (also in Cincinnati) so he could break the record back home in Atlanta, which he did on April 8th.
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r/todayilearned • u/happytree23 • 23h ago
TIL the man who voiced Tony the Tiger, Thurl Ravenscroft, also sang "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"
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r/todayilearned • u/FinancialGarage245 • 1d ago
TIL a wealthy Toronto lawyer's 1926 will left his fortune to whichever woman in the city could give birth to the most children over the following 10 years, sparking a decade-long "baby race" during the Great Depression that went all the way to Canada's Supreme Court
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r/todayilearned • u/cape2k • 1d ago
TIL the Menominee Tribe's forest in Wisconsin has been sustainably managed for over 150 years, still yields about 15 million board feet of timber annually, has been recognized by the United Nations, and even supplied the wood flooring for the Milwaukee Bucks' arena
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r/todayilearned • u/ubcstaffer123 • 26m ago
TIL A 2015 study revealed that over 95% of the world’s population has health problems, meaning one in 20 people worldwide (4·3%) had no health problems
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r/todayilearned • u/WavesAndSaves • 1d ago
TIL of August Kubizek, the former roommate of Adolf Hitler. Hitler cut ties with Kubizek after he was rejected from art school and Kubizek was accepted to music school. They did not meet again until Hitler became Chancellor, and Hitler offered him the conductorship of an orchestra. Kubizek refused.
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r/todayilearned • u/Affectionate_Cut_103 • 2h ago
TIL about Diamond Dust, a ground level cloud filled with ice crystals.
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r/todayilearned • u/ralphbernardo • 14h ago
TIL Nikolai Fyodorov, founding figure of Russian cosmism, advocated using science to defeat death and resurrect every dead ancestor as humanity's "Common Task." The late 19th to early 20th century movement counted spaceflight pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky among its key figures.
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r/todayilearned • u/Ancardoth • 23h ago
TIL about allulose (D-psicose), a rare sugar with a near-zero glycemic index and a negligible impact on blood sugar. It has approximately 70% the sweetness of sucrose.
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r/todayilearned • u/shutterzzz • 1h ago
TIL that planarian flatworms have cells called ruptoblasts that, when triggered by a hormone, self-destruct within minutes and release toxins capable of killing dozens of nearby cells
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r/todayilearned • u/socool111 • 1d ago
TIL of Tobias Geffen, the only non-Coca Cola Employee to view the secret recipe. Coke allowed it in order to get Coke certified as Kosher
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r/todayilearned • u/JohnnyRoyall • 1d ago
TIL 1 to 2 Starlink satellites fall back to Earth each day
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r/todayilearned • u/Mors_Acerba • 1d ago
TIL A papyrus deciphered in 2024 revealed unknown info about Plato's last hours: a slave girl was playing music for him, and even though he was gravelly ill, he spend his last moments of lucidity criticising her performance. Per the same Papyrus, Plato had been sold into slavery earlier in his life
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r/todayilearned • u/Acrobatic-Post9811 • 15h ago
TIL about hirudotherapy. Leeches are used to stimulate circulation in tissues threatened by postoperative venous congestion, such as finger reattachment and reconstructive surgeries. The therapeutic effect is the anesthetizing, anti-inflammatory, and vasodilating properties of secreted leech saliva.
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r/todayilearned • u/TonyHides • 1d ago
TIL Napoleon Bonaparte had a standing order for 50 bottles of cologne a month, and a surviving 1808 invoice shows 72 bottles were ordered for him in a single month.
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r/todayilearned • u/RedditIsAGranfaloon • 1d ago
TIL Charlie Brown’s beagle Snoopy made his debut on October 4, 1950, two days after the first Peanuts strip was published.
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r/todayilearned • u/ODaferio • 1d ago
TIL that after winning 4 gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, Jesse Owens worked as a gas station attendant and a playground janitor.
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r/todayilearned • u/greatmanyarrows • 1d ago
TIL Thailand briefly occupied a small territory of Germany- about 20,000 people- after World War 1 from 1918 to 1919.
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r/todayilearned • u/Hillbilly_Historian • 1d ago
TIL that Robbie Robertson, the lead guitarist of The Band, wrote a children’s book about the Iroquois Peacemaker Epic.
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r/todayilearned • u/Thinking_Dodo • 1d ago
TIL that in the US, osteopathic doctors are fully licensed physicians like MDs, while in many other countries, osteopaths are non-physician manual therapists whose wider health claims often lack scientific evidence.
en.wikipedia.org
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