r/todayilearned • u/RilesTheSmiles1 • 4h ago
TIL sharks existed before trees
r/todayilearned • u/boobmeyourpms • 1d ago
TIL the actress who played Regina George's sister in Mean Girls (the girl who flashes the TV when Amy Poehler's character is introduced) is a physician specializing in otolaryngology—head and neck surgery. She also is a very talented artist who paints realistic pieces.
r/todayilearned • u/MistoftheMorning • 1d ago
TIL that during the Cephalonia massacre in WWII, after executing most of the Italian officers that had surrendered to them, the Germans forced 20 Italian sailors to take the bodies out to sea in rafts. They then blew up the rafts with the sailors still on them.
r/todayilearned • u/jom35 • 7h ago
TIL about the Oneida Nation, the US's first ally in the Revolutionary War, who were granted land protection after the war for a brief period.
r/todayilearned • u/TheOSU87 • 1d ago
PDF TIL that during the peak of their powers about 10% of the entire Japanese population were samurais. Due to their large numbers nearly all Japanese alive today are descended from samurai
colorado.edur/todayilearned • u/jenesuispashariselon • 2h ago
TIL that nicotine, as well as being present in tobacco, is also present in tomatoes, potatoes and eggplants. it provides natural protection against insects, and has been used as a pesticide since at least the 17th century.
r/todayilearned • u/thatguykeith • 9h ago
TIL that in 1977 NASA launched Voyager 1/2 into space with the Golden Record onboard. It contains music, greetings, and images which NASA cannot display online due to copyright law. NASA sent these images to space to represent humanity but cannot show these images to most humans.
r/todayilearned • u/EssexGuyUpNorth • 1d ago
TIL that when Elton John married his wife Renate Blauel in 1984, Rod Stewart sent a wedding telegram that read "You may still be standing but we're all on the f**king floor"
r/todayilearned • u/A_Bruised_Reed • 21h ago
TIL; The Beatles never learned how to read music.
r/todayilearned • u/Voyager_AU • 19h ago
TIL that stonefish is the most venomous known fish in the world and stings can cause death if not treated. Some Indigenous Australians have corroborees which involve re-enacting the death of someone who trod on the fish.
r/todayilearned • u/MapsAreAwesome • 1d ago
TIL that California is the only state to have an image of an extinct animal on its state flag and seal
r/todayilearned • u/Ainsley-Sorsby • 8h ago
TIL A group of conspirators intending to assassinate Easter Roman Emperor Nikephoros Phokas entered his bedchamber at night disguised in women's clothing. Initially the got scared because he wasn't in his bed as expected: an ascetic army veteran, Nikephoros liked sleeping on the floor
r/todayilearned • u/RilesTheSmiles1 • 5h ago
TIL Pixar's "UP" Was Originally About Two Princes, a Floating City, and a strange large bird
r/todayilearned • u/DarkRiches61 • 6h ago
TIL that, in the years it was an active sporting arena, about half a million people (gladiators) and a million animals died fighting for spectacle at the Roman Colosseum.
r/todayilearned • u/mrtechnology1312 • 3h ago
TIL Potassium chloride, a salt substitute for food often mixed with ordinary table salt to form low sodium salt, is used as the final drug in the sequence of execution by lethal injection
r/todayilearned • u/turgers • 1h ago
TIL there was an Australian bushranger in the 1800s named “Captain Thunderbolt”
r/todayilearned • u/theID10T • 20h ago
TIL that dogs see in shades of blue and yellow. The colors we see depend on two types of photoreceptors: rods and cones. Humans have three types of cones, but dogs only have two. Dogs have fewer cones, but have more rods, which help them identify moving objects and see better in low-light conditions
r/todayilearned • u/BlackknightJC • 1d ago
United States TIL many coroners aren't doctors and they can be appointed or elected to their positions
r/todayilearned • u/Gapplesauce37 • 13h ago
TIL The biggest chicken nugget ever made weighed 51 pounds and was 3.25 feet long x 2 feet wide
r/todayilearned • u/IC-4-Lights • 1d ago
TIL that Blue Raspberry is largely Banana and Pineapple flavors. A bright blue dye was used because because the red food dye of the time had been banned.
r/todayilearned • u/KingFernando532 • 4h ago
TIL when a Oecobius civitas spider enters the home/territory of another spider of the same species, the residing spider leaves to find another home, allowing the squatter to take over.
r/todayilearned • u/BadenBaden1981 • 1d ago
TIL before the breakup, AT&T didn't allow customers to use phones made by other companies, claiming using them would degrade the network.
r/todayilearned • u/Ainsley-Sorsby • 1d ago
TIL In 1609 the Kingdom Of Spain expelled hundreds of thousands of Moriscos, people of muslim ancestry who had converted to christianity, partialy because of a racial doctrine called "purity of blood". In some regions over 30% of the total population were expelled, devastating the local economy
r/todayilearned • u/Brutal_Deluxe_ • 1d ago
TIL whale oil was used in transmissions until its ban in 1972, when less than 1 million transmissions failed each year; without whale oil, yearly transmission failures became more than 8 million by 1975. This led to thousands of transmission shops opening across the USA in the late 1970s and ’80s
r/todayilearned • u/Crystal_Spammer • 1d ago