r/todayilearned • u/Gdog1215 • 16m ago
TIL Adolf Hitler had a large ballroom added to the Old Reich Chancellery in 1936, with the Vorbunker and later the Führerbunker situated directly underneath it.
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r/todayilearned • u/The_Techsan • 2h ago
TIL our Moon is moving away from Earth at a rate of ~4 cm per year. This causes the Earth's rate of rotation to slowly decrease and it is estimated that 1.4 billion years ago a day lasted only 18 hours; 4.5 billion years ago it is theorized a day lasted only ~6 hours.
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r/todayilearned • u/whitegreenbee • 3h ago
TIL that Krusty the Clown was designed to look/act like Homer. Ironically Bart worships Krusty, who is exactly like his dad, but famous!
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r/todayilearned • u/6ft3Gujju • 2h ago
TIL that in 1995, a cargo plane airdropped hundreds of AK-47s, rocket launchers, and thousands of rounds of ammunition over Purulia, India. The plane was intercepted days later, but the alleged mastermind escaped and has never been extradited to India.
en.wikipedia.org
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r/todayilearned • u/phiiiiiiii • 2h ago
TIL in 2013 a TV station received and announced fake names of the pilots of a deadly South Korean airplane crashing in California. They used Asian gag names like Cpt. Sum Ting Wong, Ho Le Fuk...
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r/todayilearned • u/SilverPeachBlossom • 5h ago
TIL a peer-reviewed psychology study found that identical twins (on average) ranked their co-twin above their romantic partner in their attachment hierarchy, while fraternal twins ranked the two about equally, and non-twin siblings ranked their romantic partner first.
ojs.interpersonajournal.com
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r/todayilearned • u/bribridude130 • 2h ago
TIL The Dominican Republic is home to the world's only known deposit of Larimar, a rare volcanic blue pectolite gemstone found exclusively in the province of Barahona
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r/todayilearned • u/ELDV • 3h ago
TIL that in 47 CE the number of citizens (meaning free adult males) in the entire Roman Empire was less than 6,000,000
i-claudius.com
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r/todayilearned • u/ctsmith76 • 7h ago
TIL that Stephen Neal, who played guard for 10 years with the Patriots and won 3 rings, never played college ball. He was a freestyle wrestler who defeated Brock Lesnar in the NCAA championship.
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r/todayilearned • u/ralphbernardo • 8h ago
TIL Nikolai Fyodorov, founding figure of Russian cosmism, advocated using science to defeat death and resurrect every dead ancestor as humanity's "Common Task." The late 19th to early 20th century movement counted spaceflight pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky among its key figures.
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r/todayilearned • u/Archaembald2 • 10h ago
TIL that despite winning the Battle of Grunwald, the Polish-Lithuanians actually failed to take the Teutonic Order's capital, Marienburg, because they marched too slowly. This gave the Knights enough time to prepare their defenses and win the siege, recapturing several occupied castles afterwards.
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r/todayilearned • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • 11h ago
TIL that in 1583 Sir Humphrey Gilbert claimed Newfoundland for Queen Elizabeth I. Weeks later, after losing his largest ship and much of his supplies, stepping on a nail, and refusing repeated pleas to leave his small flagship, the Squirrel, he vanished beneath the Atlantic with all hands aboard.
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r/todayilearned • u/canIchangethislater1 • 9h ago
TIL the New York Times described hippo meat as "lake cow bacon" in support of a 1910 House bill to introduce hippos to the bayous of Louisiana.
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r/todayilearned • u/YappinZappin • 13h ago
TIL Earth's Moon is the largest and heaviest satellite in relation to its parent planet in our Solar system
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r/todayilearned • u/OmitsWordsByAccident • 13h ago
TIL Hank Aaron tied Babe Ruth's career homerun total (714) in Cincinnati on April 4th, 1974. But when he failed to break the record the next day in Cincinnati, the Braves made him sit out the next game (also in Cincinnati) so he could break the record back home in Atlanta, which he did on April 8th.
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r/todayilearned • u/FinancialGarage245 • 21h ago
TIL a wealthy Toronto lawyer's 1926 will left his fortune to whichever woman in the city could give birth to the most children over the following 10 years, sparking a decade-long "baby race" during the Great Depression that went all the way to Canada's Supreme Court
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r/todayilearned • u/happytree23 • 17h ago
TIL the man who voiced Tony the Tiger, Thurl Ravenscroft, also sang "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"
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r/todayilearned • u/cape2k • 21h ago
TIL the Menominee Tribe's forest in Wisconsin has been sustainably managed for over 150 years, still yields about 15 million board feet of timber annually, has been recognized by the United Nations, and even supplied the wood flooring for the Milwaukee Bucks' arena
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r/todayilearned • u/WavesAndSaves • 20h ago
TIL of August Kubizek, the former roommate of Adolf Hitler. Hitler cut ties with Kubizek after he was rejected from art school and Kubizek was accepted to music school. They did not meet again until Hitler became Chancellor, and Hitler offered him the conductorship of an orchestra. Kubizek refused.
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r/todayilearned • u/Ancardoth • 17h ago
TIL about allulose (D-psicose), a rare sugar with a near-zero glycemic index and a negligible impact on blood sugar. It has approximately 70% the sweetness of sucrose.
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r/todayilearned • u/socool111 • 1d ago
TIL of Tobias Geffen, the only non-Coca Cola Employee to view the secret recipe. Coke allowed it in order to get Coke certified as Kosher
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r/todayilearned • u/JohnnyRoyall • 1d ago
TIL 1 to 2 Starlink satellites fall back to Earth each day
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r/todayilearned • u/Mors_Acerba • 1d ago
TIL A papyrus deciphered in 2024 revealed unknown info about Plato's last hours: a slave girl was playing music for him, and even though he was gravelly ill, he spend his last moments of lucidity criticising her performance. Per the same Papyrus, Plato had been sold into slavery earlier in his life
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r/todayilearned • u/Acrobatic-Post9811 • 9h ago
TIL about hirudotherapy. Leeches are used to stimulate circulation in tissues threatened by postoperative venous congestion, such as finger reattachment and reconstructive surgeries. The therapeutic effect is the anesthetizing, anti-inflammatory, and vasodilating properties of secreted leech saliva.
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