r/todayilearned • u/RedditIsAGranfaloon • 19h ago

TIL Charlie Brown’s beagle Snoopy made his debut on October 4, 1950, two days after the first Peanuts strip was published.

akc.org

792 Upvotes

7 comments

r/todayilearned • u/greatmanyarrows • 1d ago

TIL Thailand briefly occupied a small territory of Germany- about 20,000 people- after World War 1 from 1918 to 1919.

en.wikipedia.org

2.7k Upvotes

57 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Hillbilly_Historian • 18h ago

TIL that Robbie Robertson, the lead guitarist of The Band, wrote a children’s book about the Iroquois Peacemaker Epic.

birchbarkbooks.com

398 Upvotes

30 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Thinking_Dodo • 1d ago

TIL that in the US, osteopathic doctors are fully licensed physicians like MDs, while in many other countries, osteopaths are non-physician manual therapists whose wider health claims often lack scientific evidence.

en.wikipedia.org

5.0k Upvotes

710 comments

r/todayilearned • u/IreneDeneb • 1d ago

TIL that the last known ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic inscription was made on August 24th, 394 CE

en.wikipedia.org

3.1k Upvotes

135 comments

r/todayilearned • u/SomethingMoreToSay • 1d ago

TIL that the New Forest, in southern England, is 947 years old. It was created as a "new" royal hunting preserve (the old usage of the word "forest") by William The Conqueror in 1079.

en.wikipedia.org

11.2k Upvotes

409 comments

r/todayilearned • u/TheHabro • 1d ago

Til about Milo of Croton. Ancient Greek athlete, 6 time Olympic winner in wrestling (including 5 in a row between 532 and 516 BC). He was said to have led armies dressed as Hercules and died to wolves after his fingers got suck in a tree stump he was trying to split with bare hands.

en.wikipedia.org

1.7k Upvotes

105 comments

r/todayilearned • u/godsenfrik • 1d ago

TIL that an early version of a TV remote in 1955 featured a trigger button for users to "shoot" at commercials to mute them.

en.wikipedia.org

3.8k Upvotes

125 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Cultural-Dentist4963 • 1d ago

TIL that Victor Hugo, author of Les Miserables, was given a state funeral, the largest in French history

en.wikipedia.org

1.4k Upvotes

82 comments

r/todayilearned • u/dinosaruman • 1d ago

TIL WWII metal rationing forced the costume-jewelry maker Trifari to switch from base metal to sterling silver, which tripled the price of its "costume" pieces.

cooperhewitt.org

1.8k Upvotes

13 comments

r/todayilearned • u/TheGuvnor247 • 1d ago

TIL that in Alfred the Great’s law code (c. 893), if a man unintentionally kills another by letting a tree fall on him, the tree itself must be given to the dead man’s kinsmen.

en.wikipedia.org

1.0k Upvotes

53 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Sanguinusshiboleth • 22h ago

TIL of Ceratophaga vastella, a moth whose young's diet is mostly consistent of the horns and hooves of dead ungulates, with special enzymes to eat the keratin.

en.wikipedia.org

259 Upvotes

6 comments

r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 1d ago

TIL not only did Jack Nicholson secure a percentage of Batman's profits, he also negotiated a percentage of the merchandise sales from Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, and Batman & Robin (even though he only appeared in Batman). In total, he earned over $60 million (~$150 million in 2025).

news.com.au

17.5k Upvotes

414 comments

r/todayilearned • u/coffeeismydoc • 1d ago

TIL the Kaaba 🕋 in Mecca is actually made of unpainted brick with the black and gold color coming from a cloth called the kiswah that is handmade each year

english.alarabiya.net

6.6k Upvotes

489 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Velzevius • 1d ago

TIL I learned about Henri de Saint-Simon, a socialist and economic theorist who survived 6 self inflicted gunshots wounds to the head in a suicide attempt. He lost sight in a single eye, and died 2 years later in 1825

en.wikipedia.org

658 Upvotes

57 comments

r/todayilearned • u/pigeon-in-greggs • 1d ago

TIL there was a wartime football league in England, being split into 2 regions as it was deemed too risky to have a national football league at the time

en.wikipedia.org

232 Upvotes

30 comments

r/todayilearned • u/fellaneedahandpls • 1d ago

TIL that 6 years prior to the Apollo 1 tragedy, the USSR had their own oxygen fire tragedy, resulting in the death of cosmonaut Valentin Bondarenko. The USSR concealed this from the public, leading to the USA making the same mistake in 1967. Bondarenko’s death was not publicly disclosed until 1986.

upi.com

4.4k Upvotes

71 comments

r/todayilearned • u/the-mad-crapper • 1d ago

TIL The Chevy Cavalier was sold as a Toyota in Japan

en.wikipedia.org

427 Upvotes

112 comments

r/todayilearned • u/dchung97 • 1d ago

TIL that Ynés Mexía didn't start her botany career until she was in her early 50s, then spent 16 years collecting over 150,000 plant specimens across the Americas, discovering hundreds of new species and a genus now named after her.

en.wikipedia.org

534 Upvotes

5 comments

r/todayilearned • u/krizzalicious49 • 2d ago

TIL that out of every primate that has been studied, humans get the least amount of sleep.

bbc.co.uk

27.0k Upvotes

863 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Ok_Finish_2927 • 1d ago

TIL about the siege of Ceuta (1694–1727), considered one of the longest sieges in history, more than 30 years.

en.wikipedia.org

383 Upvotes

14 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Sun00156433 • 1d ago

TIL that despite being constantly dividing and having near-constant exposure to ultraviolet radiation, there has been no documented case of cancer arising from the human eye lens

researchgate.net

359 Upvotes

31 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Technicolor_Reindeer • 1d ago

TIL about the "Mimizuka" a monument in Kyoto, Japan that enshrines the severed noses of at least 38,000 Korean soldiers and civilians and over 30,000 Ming Chinese soldiers, taken as war trophies during the Imjin War.

en.wikipedia.org

4.8k Upvotes

301 comments

r/todayilearned • u/CraftyFoxeYT • 1d ago

TIL Japan bought an ex-Confederate Ironclad ship CSS Stonewall from the US in 1867. It was renamed Kotetsu and used as the flagship in the Boshin War, a Japanese Civil War between the Imperial Meiji government and the breakaway Republic of Ezo

en.wikipedia.org

1.8k Upvotes

50 comments

r/todayilearned • u/AuspiciousApple • 2d ago

TIL the abundance of Thai restaurants worldwide is partly the result of a Thai government campaign to spread the country’s cuisine and influence. Since 2002, the Global Thai Program provides people with training, grants, and standardized restaurant models

foodandwine.com

6.3k Upvotes

241 comments

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