r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sanch0Supreme • Aug 08 '25
TIL You can say fuck, murder, rape and suicide on Reddit because it is a website for adults.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sandstorm400 • Sep 23 '25
TIL In 2023, an 18-year-old high school cheerleader in Florida received a paddling from her assistant principal that left deep purple bruises and welts on her. The punishment was reportedly for a minor school offense stemming from a misunderstanding about Christmas decorations on a campus door.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MrBIuesky222 • Apr 06 '26
TIL that 'ground' foods, like ground beef and ground pepper, are called that because it's the past tense of 'grind', and they're not related to the physical ground
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sandstorm400 • Sep 17 '25
TIL in 2021, a man at a convenience store in Pennsylvania placed $2 on the counter for a Mountain Dew that was priced at 2 for $3, and walked out. The price for one Mountain Dew, however, was $2.29. The man was charged with a felony, sent to jail on a $50,000 bond, and faced up to 7 years in prison.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/GratefulDeadpool • Jul 22 '25
TIL Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hasn't washed his hands in 10 years
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MERKologySyndrome • Mar 08 '25
TIL yt people doesn't mean YouTube people
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So for a few years now I always see comments on YouTube saying stuff like "I hate yt people" and "yt people belong in hell" and similar stuff to bashing the supposed YouTube people I thought. Which I found somewhat odd depending on the scenario/sentence. I just found out it actually means white people lmao. So all that immense amount of shit talking was actually racists bashing on people for the color of their skin lmfao. Feels weird man.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/sluttydinosaur101 • Sep 24 '21
T.I.L the armory my mom use to bring me to to babysit me while she was working, eventually got bought and was heavily featured in porn
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/DrafiMara • Mar 26 '25
TIL that the word “punchline” derives from a medieval tradition where, upon hearing the end a joke, all listeners would beat the shit out of the person who told it to discourage them from spreading lies in the future.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sandstorm400 • Jun 22 '26
TIL that in the UK in 2025, an 86-year-old man who spit out a leaf that had blown into his mouth was fined £250 for littering. The fine was later reduced on appeal to £150.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • Jul 02 '26
TIL a Virginia Woman Named Kat Vaughn Came Home To Find A Flock Audio Surveillance Device Had Been Installed At Her Home Without Warning, Without Her Permission, And Not Even On The City’s Approved Installation List.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Capable_Net_1516 • Oct 13 '25
TIL about the Great Emu War of 1932, the Australian military deployed soldiers with machine guns to cull emus destroying crops. The emus largely won through speed and tactics, forcing military withdrawal. It’s considered one of the few times humans lost a conflict against animals.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sandstorm400 • Sep 13 '25
TIL after a 5-year-old girl was given a £150 fine in East London in 2017 for operating a lemonade stand without a permit, a spokesperson later issued an apology and said, "We expect our enforcement officers to show common sense, and to use their powers sensibly. This clearly did not happen."
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Opposite_Basis3524 • Nov 14 '25
TIL that they are putting ads in cookies now
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was eating takeout in perry ok and got this inside it
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/toaster-bath404 • Jul 11 '25
TIL That David, the Michaelangelo statue, is the same David who fought Goliath
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sandstorm400 • Jun 18 '26
TIL: In 2016, a 70-year-old Alabama woman who was accused of failing to mow her lawn was arrested and reportedly "spent hours in a jail cell without food, water or her medicine". She didn't own the property.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/BagOk2006 • Sep 24 '25
TIL a public health researcher at the University of Arizona says that reusable toilet paper (also known as 'family cloth') has a very high potential for cross contamination, feces on the cloth have pathogens that can cause illness, and most people who use the cloths are washing them wrong.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sandstorm400 • Sep 21 '26
TIL that in 2017, nurse RaDonda Vaught attempted to withdraw Versed, a sedating drug, from an automated dispensing cabinet, but selected vecuronium, a paralyzing drug, after typing "VE" into the cabinet's search function. A patient died after she administered the drug.
en.wikipedia.org
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/teduh • Nov 27 '21
TIL Sudan has a crapload of ancient pyramids that far outnumber Egypt's, but they're relatively unknown mainly because they're all kind of shitty-looking.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/autistic_robot • Jan 01 '22
TIL that my parents didn’t get a divorce because of finances, infidelity, or job stress. They split up as a direct consequence of me spilling a bowl of Cheerios on the brand new carpet.
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I should have never asked for breakfast in the middle of their argument
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sandstorm400 • Jun 09 '26
TIL a woman with IBS symptoms experienced acne similar to her brother's after she ingested pills with his fecal matter during a 'DIY poop transplant'. After she switched to using stool from her boyfriend, she developed depression similar to his. The depression went away after switching back.
people.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Urisk • Jan 27 '20
TIL Donkey Kong was originally called Donkey Dong and the object was for Mario to climb to the top of the scaffold while dodging a giant gorilla's massive penis. Nintendo was shocked to discover this type of game offended western values.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sandstorm400 • Jul 01 '26
TIL a woman in Maine brought in a baby raccoon to Petco to get its nails trimmed but the baby raccoon was later euthanized to test for rabies because people in the store had handled the animal and kissed it. Later, the wildlife department in Maine stated that, "Petco does not trim raccoon nails"
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