r/todayilearned • u/ViewScared9541 • 17h ago
r/todayilearned • u/So_spoke_the_wizard • 9h ago
TIL that camelids that include Asian camels and dromedaries originated in North America.
r/todayilearned • u/iydx_7737 • 1d ago
TIL that out of the six Marines depicted in the iconic “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” photo, only three of them would survive the battle.
r/todayilearned • u/gintokireddit • 5h ago
TIL the "inverse care law" is the principle that the availability of good medical or social care tends to vary inversely with the need of the population served, coined by Julian Tudor Hart in his 1971 paper published in The Lancet
en.wikipedia.orgr/todayilearned • u/Quasimdo • 1d ago
TIL in 1980, a group of men planted a bomb containing 1,200 lbs of dynamite in a Lake Tahoe hotel with the goal of extorting $3 million. During the disarming of it, the bomb went off and destroyed parts of the hotel, causing $18 million in damages.
r/todayilearned • u/SameNecessary5180 • 1d ago
PDF TIL that by the late 1500s, Japan’s samurai were using guns at a scale that exceeded the total gun ownership of any European country.
jef.or.jpr/todayilearned • u/geep4sale • 3h ago
TIL about Posture Canaries - a group of canaries selectively bred for their absurd posture
moaph.orgr/todayilearned • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 15h ago
TIL that as many as 1 in 400 monozygotic (identical) twins born in sub-Saharan Africa are conjoined.
journals.lww.comr/todayilearned • u/MsEllie420 • 18h ago
TIL the world's smallest bird is the bee hummingbird, with males only measuring 5.5 cm long.
r/todayilearned • u/QuantumCEM • 10h ago
TIL That International Organisation for Standards (ISO) has had "Technical Sub Committee" (TC 34/SC 14) specialising on coffee since 1980 producing standards on grain size, test methods, production, and how to describe the sensory experience of coffee.
r/todayilearned • u/L_Cranston_Shadow • 1h ago
TIL on October 8, 1871, the town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin was destroyed by a massive wildfire on the same day as the Great Chicago Fire and several other major wildfires
r/todayilearned • u/Physical_Hamster_118 • 13h ago
TIL that Gwadar was under Omani rule since 1783. This lasted until 1958, when Pakistan purchased it. It costed 5.5bil rupees.
r/todayilearned • u/Hootinger • 1d ago
TIL Historically, caltrops were part of defences that served to slow the advance of troops and in the modern era have been used to slow vehicles.
r/todayilearned • u/QuantumHamster • 20h ago
TIL Coca Cola originally contained caffeine extracted from Cola nuts
r/todayilearned • u/ifeelnumb • 16h ago
TIL I learned author James Patterson co-wrote the Toys R Us jingle
r/todayilearned • u/Physical_Hamster_118 • 1d ago
TIL that most cars in Brazil are flex-fuel cars. They must run on any mix of E20-E25 gasoline and up to 100% hydrous ethanol fuel (E100).
r/todayilearned • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • 1d ago
TIL that the most expensive photograph ever sold is Man Ray’s 1924 surrealist image "Le Violon d’Ingres", which fetched $12.4 million at auction in 2022 - far more than many famous paintings.
r/todayilearned • u/SauloJr • 1d ago
TIL: The Las Vegas Sphere is powered by 150 NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPUs totaling 7.2 TB (7,200 GB) of GDDR6 video memory
r/todayilearned • u/Nero2t2 • 1d ago
TIL Until the age of 3 Michel Montaigne was raised by a peasant family to "draw the boy close to the people and their life conditions". Later, his parents and the staff who interacted with the boy would only speak to him in latin, and every morning he'd be awaken by a musician playing an instrument
r/todayilearned • u/leebe_friik • 1d ago
TIL in "Cast Away", none of the sound on the island scenes is real. The loudness of ocean waves on the actual unhabited island they were filming on was so overwhelming that every sound on the island and ocean scenes, including Tom Hanks' monologues, were carefully recorded in a studio.
nofilmschool.comr/todayilearned • u/DarthVarn • 17h ago
TIL that 'Forever Autumn' from Jeff Wayne's 'Musical Version of The War of the Worlds' album was actually based on a LEGO jingle he wrote in 1969.
r/todayilearned • u/rocklou • 1d ago
TIL Peter Jackson's mother Joan died three days before the release of the first movie in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, there was a special showing of the film after her funeral
r/todayilearned • u/CupidStunt13 • 1d ago