r/todayilearned • u/Algrinder • 9h ago
TIL Burritos are popular food for astronauts in space because it's easy to eat and doesn't produce crumbs that could float around and damage equipment
space.comr/todayilearned • u/sed_non_extra • 5h ago
TIL: In China for about three years around 1900, a secret martial arts training club tried to overthrow the Chinese government & force out foreigners. Known to the West as "The Boxer Rebellion," the name literally comes from the fact that members fought unarmed using Chinese forms of unarmed combat.
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TIL that Carlo Urbani, an Italian Microbiologist, was the first to identify SARS-COV-1 in Vietnam and report it to the WHO as a dangerous new pathogen. Urbani himself died of SARS himself shortly after, having triggered a rapid response to a potential pandemic, and saving many lives.
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TIL Approximately 73 to 100 million sharks are killed annually worldwide just for their fins. Primarily driven by the demand for shark fins as an ingredient of a status symbol soup.
sharks.orgr/todayilearned • u/RedZoneSunday • 17h ago
TIL that at the company Hormel Foods, which makes canned SPAM, employees are supposed to refer to spam emails as unwanted emails.
r/todayilearned • u/Hrtzy • 14h ago
TIL About the Man-eaters of Tsavo, two man-eating lions that halted the construction of a railway bridge in 1898
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TIL a kidnapping victim was jailed after he tried to extort his kidnappers. He told them "call me if you want to finesse trial... either you cough up sum bread or sit in the feds for 20 years"
r/todayilearned • u/einstein_bern • 17h ago
TIL Antonie van Leeuwenhoek handcrafted his microscopes using secret methods. They had powers of magnification ranging from 50 to 300x and the instrument he made in 1677 was powerful enough to see sperm
pbs.orgr/todayilearned • u/AussieHawker • 18h ago
TIL about Georges Ruggiu. A Belgian civil servant, who at 35 moved to Rwanda, become a radio presenter for the ruling party (despite not speaking the native language) and demonised the Tutsis, which ended in their genocide.
r/todayilearned • u/KingWizard101 • 10h ago
Today I learned that beavers teeth are yellow in colour because of the iron in their tooth enamel.
r/todayilearned • u/Humpers92 • 20h ago
TIL that Humans actually have stripes in their skin that can only be seen under UV light. They are called Blaschko’s lines after the Dermatologist who discovered them.
r/todayilearned • u/res30stupid • 1d ago
TIL of United Passions (2015), a movie financed by FIFA for $29 million as a fluff piece to make themselves look good. But due to being released right around the time of the FIFA Corruption Scandal, the movie only earned $918 at the opening weekend.
r/todayilearned • u/urfat5 • 13h ago
TIL that NBA legend Paul Pierce was stabbed 11 times in 2000 and still played every single game of the 2000-01 season
r/todayilearned • u/cartstanza • 14h ago
TIL about a man who was rescued by a sea lion after he tried to kill himself by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge
r/todayilearned • u/MiauMiauMoon • 34m ago
TIL About Diana Budisavljević, the female Schindler, who undertook one of the greatest humanitarian acts in WWII, by saving over 7,700 children from concentration camps in the area of what is today's Croatia
r/todayilearned • u/ex-expatriate • 1h ago
TIL Austria's Coat of Arms is the last to feature a hammer and sickle in Europe
r/todayilearned • u/Neil_2022 • 48m ago
TIL that transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (also known as prion diseases) have the highest mortality rate of any disease that is not inherited: 100%
r/todayilearned • u/AdmiralAkbar1 • 19h ago
TIL that Art Spiegelman, best known for the Pulitzer-winning graphic novel Maus, also created the Garbage Pail Kids line of trading cards
r/todayilearned • u/twoshillings • 18h ago
TIL The UK Has More Speed Cameras Than US
r/todayilearned • u/I-Am-Uncreative • 1d ago
TIL of Daniel Sickles. He shot the son of Francis Scott Key in broad daylight for sleeping with his wife, and was the first person acquitted under the insanity defense. Later he was appointed a Union general, and lost his leg disobeying orders. He regularly claimed to be 6 years younger than he was.
r/todayilearned • u/Flares117 • 1d ago
TIL: The last imperial eunuch of Chinese history was castrated by his father with a razor to serve the last emperor Pu Yi. However, just mere months after the operation, the emperor was deposed and the system of government changed.
en.wikipedia.orgr/todayilearned • u/j1ggy • 17h ago
TIL an isolated, extinct volcano crater in Papua New Guinea is home to more than 40 unique species of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, including the world's smallest parrot
r/todayilearned • u/Ixz72 • 1d ago
TIL Bangles' lead singer, Susanna Hoffs was tricked into recording the song "Eternal Flame" while completely naked.
r/todayilearned • u/wendalltwolf • 5h ago