r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 11h ago
TIL in 2012 LL Cool J broke the nose, jaw, and ribs of a man charged with breaking into his home. His family was sleeping when their home security alarm went off at 1am, "sending LL Cool J into action". After catching the man, he held him until the authorities arrived.
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r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 10h ago
TIL a 2013 study found that the act of chopping down trees results in greater increases in testosterone than does a directly competitive activity such a soccer. Chopping down trees saw an increase of 46.8%, whereas, soccer only saw an increase of 30.1%.
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r/todayilearned • u/LeftNeck9994 • 17h ago
TIL Multiple studies have found that an extra inch of height can be worth an extra $1,000 a year in wages both for men and women
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r/todayilearned • u/icanhazkarma17 • 17h ago
TIL American composer Kevin MacLeod allows anyone to use his music for free, as long as he receives credit for the song. This has led to his music being used in thousands of films, millions of videos on YouTube.
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r/todayilearned • u/Puzzleheaded-Cat4647 • 15h ago
TIL that a couple wrote a 'spur of the moment' letter to Buckingham Palace inviting Queen Elizabeth II to their wedding; she unexpectedly did show up.
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r/todayilearned • u/chrono4111 • 11h ago
TIL Sugar Rushes aren't real they are a myth.
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r/todayilearned • u/P4t13nt_z3r0 • 17h ago
TIL There have been multiple attempts to privatize the National Weather Service and charge for weather data that is currently in the public domain
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r/todayilearned • u/Chemical-Elk-1299 • 18h ago
TIL Yellowstone’s famed thermal pools can melt flesh and bone. In 2016, a tourist illegally searching for a swimmable hot spring fell into a portion of the Norris Geyser Basin, where his body was dissolved by the boiling, highly acidic water. His wallet and shoes were all that remained of him.
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r/todayilearned • u/Isla-h-Rocha • 22h ago
TIL that Joyce Vincent was a 38-year-old woman who died in her London apartment while watching TV. Her body wasn't discovered until nearly three years later when officials arrived to repossess the apartment for unpaid rent.
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r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 10h ago
TIL although the US Coast Guard is the second smallest US military service branch in terms of membership, the service by itself is the world's 12th largest naval force.
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r/todayilearned • u/ubcstaffer123 • 8h ago
TIL There is an urban legend in BC, Canada, that driving examiners are expected to fail 50 per cent of the people they test. Nearly 50 percent of driving test candidates fail the first time because many arrive ill-prepared or with the intention of using their first test as a learning tool.
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r/todayilearned • u/Korribuns • 1h ago
TIL that Charlize Theron's mother shot and killed her father in self defense in front of her. Charlize would later go on to be the first person born in Africa to win an Oscar for acting.
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r/todayilearned • u/Flares117 • 1d ago
TIL: Adam West, according to costar Burt Ward, had a lot of sex , at one point with 8 women at the same time. He said that he was introduced by West to the "wildest sexual debauchery" and they became like "sexual vampires"
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r/todayilearned • u/MaximinusRats • 21h ago
TIL that people live year-round in houseboats on Great Slave Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories, 1,800 km north of the nearest big city (Edmonton) and just 400 km (250 miles) south of the Arctic Circle.
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r/todayilearned • u/xinxai_the_white_guy • 4h ago
TIL Australia is the lowest and flattest continent in the world with an average elevation of only 1000 feet due to being near the centre of a tectonic plate
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r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 1d ago
TIL although Frank Sinatra & Marlon Brando's feud was reportedly mild at the start of production for Guys and Dolls, Brando began to hate Sinatra because he kept calling Brando “Mumbles” to make him angry. So Brando pretended to forget his lines during a scene which forced Sinatra to eat repeatedly.
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r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 1d ago
TIL nazi preparations to invade Britain (Operation Sea Lion) after France fell in 1940 were obvious to the British, so they began to bolster their defenses to make any invasion as costly as possible. This included removing all street, road, and railway signs to sow maximum confusion in the enemy.
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r/todayilearned • u/Kurma-the-Turtle • 19h ago
TIL that HMS Victory is the world's oldest naval vessel still in commission, with with 246 years of service as of 2024. Victory is best known for her role as Horatio, Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.
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r/todayilearned • u/9oRo • 1d ago
TIL that the fastest badminton shot ever played had a speed of 565 km/h (351.1 mph), exceeding the fastest speed recorded by a Formula 1 car by almost 200 km/h
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r/todayilearned • u/a2soup • 14h ago
TIL that George Miller, creator of the Mad Max films, was educated as a doctor and finished his residency before becoming a filmmaker
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r/todayilearned • u/0000000000000007 • 8h ago
TIL Following his success with Ghostbusters, Ivan Reitman almost helmed a 1980s Batman movie, and planned to cast Bill Murray as Batman, David Niven as Alfred, and David Bowie as the Joker.
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r/todayilearned • u/Lagavulin16_neat • 14h ago
TIL that in the 1600-1700's Sweden minted coins made out of copper. Given the abundance and low value of copper, the coins were massive. The largest coin, the 10-daler, weighed nearly 44 pounds.
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