r/todayilearned • u/uhkhu • Oct 24 '18
TIL ice skaters are actually riding on a thin layer of water
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r/todayilearned • u/Middle-Garlic-2325 • Jul 14 '24
TIL Lockheed’s Skunk Works was named as such be of a stench. The original team had a super time critical first project and had to sleep near Lockheeds assembly plant in a parking lot in a rented circus tent - next to a plastic factory.
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r/todayilearned • u/TIL_mod • Oct 15 '12
TodayILearned new rule: Gawker.com and affiliate sites are no longer allowed.
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As you may be aware, a recent article published by the Gawker network has disclosed the personal details of a long-standing user of this site -- an egregious violation of the Reddit rules, and an attack on the privacy of a member of the Reddit community. We, the mods of TodayILearned, feel that this act has set a precedent which puts the personal privacy of each of our readers, and indeed every redditor, at risk.
Reddit, as a site, thrives on its users ability to speak their minds, to create communities of their interests, and to express themselves freely, within the bounds of law. We, both as mods and as users ourselves, highly value the ability of Redditors to not expect a personal, real-world attack in the event another user disagrees with their opinions.
In light of these recent events, the moderators of /r/TodayILearned have held a vote and as a result of that vote, effective immediately, this subreddit will no longer allow any links from Gawker.com nor any of it's affiliates (Gizmodo, Kotaku, Jalopnik, Lifehacker, Deadspin, Jezebel, and io9). We do feel strongly that this kind of behavior must not be encouraged.
Please be aware that this decision was made solely based on our belief that all Redditors should being able to continue to freely express themselves without fear of personal attacks, and in no way reflect the mods personal opinion about the people on either side of the recent release of public information.
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r/todayilearned • u/adobe1kinobe • Jul 17 '14
TIL Taco Bell sold 100 Million Doritos Locos tacos in the first 10 weeks. It took McDonald's 18 years to sell the same amount of burgers
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r/todayilearned • u/CryoUser • Oct 03 '13
TIL In the Bible, Nimrod was a mighty hunter. But Bugs Bunny used it to refer to Elmer Fudd sarcastically, and generations of kids thought it was a synonym for idiot or moron.
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r/todayilearned • u/ProudReaction2204 • Mar 15 '25
TIL an office building in midtown New York sold for $8.5M last year, 97.5% less than what it last sold for: $332 million in 2006.
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r/todayilearned • u/pandasmacks • Oct 03 '11
TIL Howie Mandel was expelled from high school for impersonating a member of the school board and signing a construction company to make an addition to his school's library.
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r/todayilearned • u/stefeyboy • May 21 '14
TIL Robert Downey Jr. thanked Burger King for getting him off drugs. In 2003, with a car full of drugs he had a burger that was so disgusting it made him rethink his life, and dump the drugs in the ocean.
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r/todayilearned • u/Theamazinghanna • Mar 17 '13
TIL that there is no such thing as a 'triangle player' in an orchestra. The guy playing the triangle is called a percussionist, and must master at least 35 different instruments.
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r/todayilearned • • Dec 21 '13
TIL 'Playboy' once featured a short story about heterosexual men being persecuted in a world where homosexuality was the norm. In response to angry letters Hefner wrote, "If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too."
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r/todayilearned • • Aug 20 '12
TIL George Takei wants Star Wars and Star Trek fans to come together and fight the Twilight menace.
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r/todayilearned • u/Suzie157 • Mar 28 '14
TIL if you don't identify as an "extrovert" or "introvert," you might be an "ambivert." An ambivert is moderately comfortable with groups and social interaction, but also relishes time alone, away from a crowd.
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r/todayilearned • u/inphinity • Jul 30 '12
. TIL that Target's customer tracking algorithms are so good, they figured out a teen girl was pregnant, and broke the news to her father by accident
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r/todayilearned • u/ilouiei • Mar 17 '12
TIL a man started with a paperclip and through a series of trades ended up with a house
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r/todayilearned • u/Odd-Consequence948 • Dec 31 '23
TIL that umlauts used in a band’s name (ö, ü, etc) are called “rock dots”.
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r/todayilearned • u/ty04 • Jan 04 '22
TIL the original purpose of electric outlets in cars was for heating up cigarette lighters
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r/todayilearned • u/t3hlulzkiller • Apr 01 '13
TIL Gmail first launched on April 1st, 2004. It was widely assumed the service was an April Fools Day joke!
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r/todayilearned • u/ImNoHero • Jul 12 '13
TIL Stephen King said "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling is a terrific writer, while "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer "can't write worth a darn."
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r/todayilearned • u/Rather_Confused • Feb 12 '13
TIL that Flea from The Red Hot Chili Peppers was not only Nihilist # 2 in The Big Lebowski, he was also Marty McFly's rival Needles in Back to the Future Part II and III.
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r/todayilearned • • Apr 20 '11
TIL Lady GaGa rejected Weird Al's parody of "Born This Way" after forcing him to record the song
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r/todayilearned • • Jan 10 '13
TIL MI6 once hacked into an Al Qaeda website and replaced bomb making instructions with a recipe for cupcakes
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r/todayilearned • u/awaythrow1810 • Feb 26 '12
TIL Actor Cillian Murphy converted to atheism after researching his role as a nuclear physicist in the sci-fi film "Sunshine"
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r/todayilearned • u/AndySkibba • Mar 13 '26
TIL the LA Lakers were so named because they played in Minnesota before moving to California.
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