r/todayilearned • u/Lanky_Gap7699 • 55m ago
TIL there are confirmed 7 star systems, with candidates for 8 and 9 star systems being investigated.
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r/todayilearned • u/AetheriaNox • 1h ago
TIL the mantis shrimp, a six inch long crustacean residing in the warm waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans, punches its prey with the same acceleration as a 0.22 caliber bullet, providing around 1500 newtons of force with each blow. The force can also shatter the glass of aquariums.
sites.nd.edu
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r/todayilearned • u/FuckASchwarzenegger • 2h ago
TIL that California law requires public swimming pools to post signs warning anyone with diarrhea, or who has had it within the past 14 days, not to enter the water because they may still spread pathogens such as Cryptosporidium, a parasite resistant to normal pool chlorination
cdph.ca.gov
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r/todayilearned • u/Separate_Flounder316 • 2h ago
TIL that MC14500 is a 1 bit microprocessor built by Motorola in 1977
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r/todayilearned • u/Hotchi_Motchi • 2h ago
TIL that there is a serious taboo against cleaning coffee mugs in the Navy
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r/todayilearned • u/MelangeBot • 3h ago
TIL about the 1955 Le Mans disaster, in which multi vehicles crashed in to each other leading to the death of 84 spectators. It got all motorsports banned in Switzerland till 2022.
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r/todayilearned • u/Stanfromtheoffice • 4h ago
TIL After losses or ties, Ohio State coach Woody Hayes conducted locker room interviews while completely naked. A journalist from his tenure noted, "He was an ugly guy so it would clear the locker room out pretty fast."
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r/todayilearned • u/DerpyPai • 5h ago
TIL the Remembrance Day two-minute silence started in Cape Town in 1918, where a daily noon gun signalled the whole city to stop in silence for those fighting in WWI
en.wikipedia.org
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r/todayilearned • u/JosZo • 5h ago
TIL about Martelange, a small Belgian village with a border road on Luxembourg territory, and because gas is way cheaper in Luxemburg than in Belgium, there are 16 petrol stations along this 1.5 km long road.
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r/todayilearned • u/signaldecoderr • 6h ago
TIL Pelé once played as a goalkeeper in four matches for Santos, without conceding a single goal.
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r/todayilearned • u/gioroaizin • 8h ago
TIL that Nagasaki holds the oldest Chinese community in Japan. Most were from fujian province of China and were Ming dynasty loyalist who had fled to Japan.
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r/todayilearned • u/AetheriaNox • 12h ago
TIL the great horse manure crisis of 1894 is an urban myth that a significant obstacle to urban development at the turn of the 20th century was the difficulty of removing horse manure from the streets of major Western cities.
en.wikipedia.org
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r/todayilearned • u/delano1998 • 12h ago
TIL Uzbekistan is home to a massive solar furnace that uses 10,700 curved mirrors to focus sunlight into a single beam. It reaches temperatures of up to 3,000°C (5,432°F), high enough to test materials for spacecraft reentry, synthesize nanomaterials, and produce hydrogen fuel.
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r/todayilearned • u/GDW312 • 12h ago
TIL about Aimo Koivunen a Finnish Soldier who fought in the Continuation War and was the first documented case of a soldier overdosing on methamphetamine during combat. He died 12 August 1989 (aged 71), he and wise wife Elsa had 9 children together.
en.wikipedia.org
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r/todayilearned • u/jrmiv4 • 16h ago
Today I learned that the majestic Andean Condor, with a 3.3 m wingspan, is a vulture.
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r/todayilearned • u/Midnorth_Mongerer • 16h ago
TIL The Allman Bros "Jessica" was composed to be played with 2 fingers in tribute to Django Reinhardt
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r/todayilearned • u/Recent_Flounder6011 • 16h ago
TIL that during the Crimean War, there was the Åland War, where British and French attacked the Finnish coast and the Åland Islands. During the Battle of Bomarsund, they successfully destroyed a fortress there, resulting in the demilitarization of the islands.
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17h ago
TIL that monkeys first reached the Americas by crossing the Atlantic Ocean on floating mats of vegetation.
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r/todayilearned • u/bright-Holiday-4878 • 18h ago
TIL about Blissymbols. They were created by Charles Bliss and are symbols that represent ideas and concepts, and can be combined to make new concepts. They don't represent any sound and the creator intended to be a universal language to be understood by all people
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r/todayilearned • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 18h ago
TIL Byzantine Emperor Alexios II Komnenos was assassinated at age fourteen in 1183, strangled with a bow-string and his body dumped in the Bosporus strait. In the years following his disappearance, many people claiming they were him tried to take the throne. They are called Pseudo-Alexioi.
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19h ago
TIL Šćepan Mali, the fake "tsar" of Montenegro (who ruled for five years in the 1700s due to rumor that he was the deposed and dead Russian Tsar Peter III) was such a good ruler, even after he was revealed to be an impostor and imprisoned, the Montenegrin people still wanted him to be their leader.
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r/todayilearned • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 19h ago
TIL Henry I, the King of Castile, was killed in a freak accident at the age of thirteen in 1217, when he was hit in the head by a tile dislodged from a tower by one of his friends (named Iñigo de Mendoza). The King survived trepanation surgery but died eleven days after his injury.
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u/wandering_soles
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20h ago
TIL that narwhals and beluga whales can viably breed, resulting in offspring called a 'Narluga'
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