25 Of The Latest Facts That Had The ‘Today I Learned’ Community Buzzing

The joy of learning has returned, bringing with it a fresh collection of ‘Today I Learned’ facts shared within one vibrant Reddit community. If you thrive on the thrill of discovery, this list promises to captivate your curiosity with a diverse array of topics.

#1

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TIL horseshoe crab blood is worth 60,000$ per gallon

#2

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TIL that after Top Gear ended, host Richard Hammond was so devastated, he cried all the way home from the studio and ran out of fuel, because he didn’t want to fill his car up covered in tears

#3

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TIL Eminem once turned down a joint tour with Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg that would’ve been worth $100m (£80.2m) collectively. He said no because the lengthy tour wouldn’t allow him to see his daughter Hailie for a long period of time. He said “I just don’t want to go on tour & come back & Hailie’s grown”

#4

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TIL that being awake for 20 hours is equivalent to being drunk enough to be forbidden from driving.

#5

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TIL on one occasion, Jeffrey Dahmer accidentally consumed the drink laced with sleeping pills that was intended for his guest. When he awoke the following day, he discovered that his potential victim had stolen several items of clothing, $300, & a watch. He never officially reported the incident.

#6

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TIL an entire squad of Marines managed to get past an AI powered camera, “undetected”. Two somersaulted for 300m, another pair pretended to be a cardboard box, and one guy pretended to be a bush. The AI could not detect a single one of them.

#7

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TIL that in 1792, 400,000 British people gave up sugar to boycott slavery when the UK population was at 6 million

#8

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TIL: the roof on an oil storage tank is not attached to the walls, but floats on the surface of the oil to avoid creating a space for flammable vapors to accumulate and explode.

#9

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TIL the mobile game “Send Me to Heaven” involved throwing your phone as high in the air as you can. The creator made it with the hope of destroying as many iPhones as possible, but Apple banned it from the App Store.

#10

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TIL That Decca declined signing The Beatles in 1962. “Guitar groups are on their way out” and “the Beatles have no future in show business. ”

#11

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TIL that, of the ninety-nine emperors of the Roman Empire (and later the Western Roman Empire), around 54-69 of them were murdered or committed s****de. That is a 55-70% mortality rate from murder or s****de.

#12

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TIL that there are giant concrete arrows placed every 10 miles across the U.S., stretching from New York City to San Francisco. They were originally built to help USPS airmail pilots navigate coast-to-coast before modern instruments made visual navigation obsolete.

#13

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TIL Car mufflers and firearm silencers function based on the exact same principles and were both developed by the same inventor

#14

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TIL that photographer Robert Landsburg sacrificed his life in an attempt to save his photos during the Mount St. Helens eruption. He laid on top of his film, letting the volcanic ash cover him. Seventeen days later, his body and the preserved photos were recovered and used to document the eruption.

#15

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TIL about Bir Tawil, an 800-square-mile area of land between Egypt and Sudan that is terra nullius (land belonging to no one) because both countries refuse to claim it. Claiming Bir Tawil would legally force them to give up their claim on the more valuable Hala’ib Triangle.

#16

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TIL On August 11, 1952, the Jordanian parliament forced King Talal to abdicate less than 13 months into his rule due to his mental illness. He would spend the rest of his life in a sanatorium.

#17

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TIL Dog hair is up to 80% warmer than wool but not elastic.

#18

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TIL Approximately 70,000 years ago, the human population was between 5,000 and 10,000

#19

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TIL the most reliable record-high IQ score ever recorded belongs to mathematician Terence Tao, with a confirmed IQ of 230.

#20

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TIL Antarctica has a full-time professional fire department, and maintains about 46 staff.

#21

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TIL in 2021 in Austria, during a routine bandage change that occurred 2 days after a patient’s leg amputation surgery, it was discovered that the wrong leg had been amputated. The surgeon was found guilty of gross negligence and fined €2,700 and the patient’s widow was awarded €5,000 in damages.

#22

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TIL that houseflies can get addicted to Nicotine and C*****e. In smoker’s homes, house and fruit flies will change their evolutionary behaviors to seek out cigarette smoke, even though nicotine is extremely toxic to them

#23

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TIL During the SARS-CoV-1 outbreak in 2004, a Taiwanese woman took a bath in 40.5% ethanol in the belief that it would protect her from the virus. She absorbed the ethanol through her skin and died of ethanol poisoning.

#24

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TIL That London’s Billingsgate Fish and Smithfield Meat Markets will both close in 2028, after the Corporation of London decided against building them new locations in Dagenham. Smithfields has existed since the 10th Century and Billingsgate since the 16th Century.

#25

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TIL in the early 1840s, Ohio’s Oberline College banned students from consuming meat, seasonings, condiments, and most caffeinated beverages, and at one point many students were living on bread and water.

CloudberryRushXo:

This was part of the “Grahamite” health movement, which promoted a bland, vegetarian diet for moral and physical purity.

The extreme rules banning spices and caffeine were very unpopular and quickly abandoned due to student protests over poor nutrition.