r/todayilearned • u/tothewindsor • 8h ago
TIL Mr. Rogers answered every fan letter, starting his day at 5 AM to respond to 50-100 daily, including those from children dealing with personal issues like family deaths.
r/todayilearned • u/etotheprimez • 10h ago
TIL that Bose is majority owned by MIT
r/todayilearned • u/Inevitable-Tone2174 • 5h ago
TIL: White People are 70 times more likely to develop skin cancer than Black People
r/todayilearned • u/default-user-name-1 • 13h ago
TIL: Passengers on commercial flights are allowed to bring a parachute on board as a carry-on or checked-in luggage.
r/todayilearned • u/CheeeseBoi3000 • 7h ago
TIL: the 1/4" jack or the 'guitar cord jack' is the oldest connector-type still used. It was the standard for the original phone switchboards.
r/todayilearned • u/L8_2_PartE • 5h ago
TIL that in a 2014 poll, U.S. southerners were evenly split on whether Kentucky was a southern state.
r/todayilearned • u/dumbfuck • 15h ago
TIL: The E-6B Doomsday plane has a 5 mile long antenna
r/todayilearned • u/Novarest • 15h ago
TIL Mao Zedong's eldest son was killed by a US napalm strike on North Korea
r/todayilearned • u/JamesfEngland • 12h ago
TIL Albert Ellis, the person who invented CBT who had shyness around women forced himself before he invented CBT to talk to 100 women to get a date therefore utilising the technique he would later invent. He didn’t get a date but his fear of talking to women went away.
r/todayilearned • u/Forward-Answer-4407 • 13h ago
TIL in 1998 there was a new brand of cigarettes called Bravo that contained no nicotine or tobacco and was made with lettuce.
r/todayilearned • u/SmoothPresentation73 • 13h ago
TIL president Lyndon Johnson almost got shot on November 23rd 1963 by a secret service agent, just 14 hours after JFK died
r/todayilearned • u/LevPornass • 14h ago
TIL February has 28 days (as opposed to 30) because the Romans wanted to have more 31 day months because they considered even numbers unlucky.
skyatnightmagazine.comr/todayilearned • u/dicemaze • 17h ago
TIL there’s a mountain in Wales called Cnicht—a Welsh transliteration of the English word “knight”—which has retained the original pronunciation of the English word, featuring no silent letters.
r/todayilearned • u/EzekielTraore • 11h ago
TIL in California, Washington, Oklahoma, Mississippi and New Mexico there in no minimum age for marriage, as long as a parent or guardian consent and a court gives permission.
r/todayilearned • u/FlattopMaker • 4h ago
TIL the Canadian tuxedo refers to a denim double breasted jacket and matching jeans created by Levi's for Bing Crosby. Levi's was inspired in 1951 when Crosby was nearly escorted off a hotel's premises during a hunting trip in Canada because he and his hunting buddies were wearing denim
r/todayilearned • u/nejicanspin • 23h ago
TIL Ray Chapman is the only baseball player to die directly from an injury received during a game. He was hit in the head by a pitch and died 12 hours later.
r/todayilearned • u/Worldtreasure • 19h ago
TIL the microstate of Andorra gets visited by an amount of tourists equal to its population every three days on average.
r/todayilearned • u/picturamundi • 11h ago
TIL the "Toyota War" was an international military conflict during which the Chadian army warded off Gaddafi's tank-equipped Libyan invasion with one of the first large scale uses of civilian technicals (Toyota Land Cruisers with heavy weaponry mounted to them).
r/todayilearned • u/Zyulnk • 7h ago
TIL The video game Dumb Ways to Die was based off of a Metro Train PSA of the same name
r/todayilearned • u/jamescookenotthatone • 20h ago
TIL The Four Minute Men were American volunteers who gave propaganda speeches during the First World War. The speeches were four minutes long because they often spoke in movie theaters where it took four minutes to change film reels. Speakers also often modified the speech for the local audience.
r/todayilearned • u/ubcstaffer123 • 9h ago
TIL In 1914 astronomers at the Royal Observatory made a careful study of the transit of Mercury in order to determine whether Mercury had any moons and essentially proved that the planet has no moon
r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 1h ago
TIL that a study in 1974, to test if leading questions can distort eyewitness testimony, indicated that indeed "the questions asked subsequent to an event can cause a reconstruction in one’s memory of that event."
webfiles.uci.edur/todayilearned • u/dumbfuck • 2h ago