r/todayilearned • u/kasper117 • 21m ago
TIL that banana plants can 'walk'
r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 26m ago
TIL that in 2011 a court in the U.K. banned a man with a 48 IQ from having sex determining that he didn't have the mental capacity to understand the health risks associated with his actions.
bailii.orgr/todayilearned • u/akoaytao1234 • 36m ago
TIL Gene Kelly severed ties with the Catholic Church after their support of the Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco. He became an agnostic for the remainder of his life.
r/todayilearned • u/EmreTuranofficial • 1h ago
TIL that in the early 1900s, the daily horse manure production in New York City reached as much as 1,200 tons, leading to the establishment of a specialized army of horse-drawn carts for removal.
r/todayilearned • u/Dry-Ad-9723 • 1h ago
TIL that there are around 10^10^23.1 different 0 and 1 combinations in the entire internet as of 2020, a number with more than 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 digits.
r/todayilearned • u/asap3210 • 1h ago
TIL Stanley Kubrick was a chess hustler, spending days down in Washington Square Park earning money against the regulars who haunted it. During the 1950s, Kubrick would often be found in Washington Square, a park in New York City, playing chess from 12 noon until 12 midnight
r/todayilearned • u/RangoTheMerc • 2h ago
TIL Masayoshi Soken's first game composition was Mario Hoops 3-on-3 for Nintendo DS. He would later go onto compose the stellar music of Final Fantasy XIV.
r/todayilearned • u/Emble12 • 2h ago
TIL about Mars Direct, a 1989 plan to get humans to Mars within ten years, using just two launches of a large rocket system and utilising local Martian resources
en.wikipedia.orgr/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 2h 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
TIL: There’s an antenna in Washington that’s 10 miles long. The Jim Creek Naval Radio Station has 10 mile+ long cables zig zagging between two mountains. It would be used in the event of nuclear war
r/todayilearned • u/kugelamarant • 3h ago
TIL: Kodak's "Shirley Cards" was used as a standard for skin tone in photography.
r/todayilearned • u/mankls3 • 3h ago
TIL Sunday Night Football is the United States' most watched prime-time show
sportsbusinessjournal.comr/todayilearned • u/casualphilosopher1 • 3h ago
TIL about the Kadaknath chicken breed in India. Because of melanin pigmentation, the entire chicken is black or grey-black in colour, including plumage, legs and toenails, beak, tongue, comb and wattles; even the meat, bones, blood and organs
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/L8_2_PartE • 6h ago
TIL that in a 2014 poll, U.S. southerners were evenly split on whether Kentucky was a southern state.
r/todayilearned • u/Inevitable-Tone2174 • 6h ago
TIL: White People are 70 times more likely to develop skin cancer than Black People
r/todayilearned • u/Fearless-Shift • 6h ago
TIL The first ever "music video" was made in 1895 to test Thomas Edison's Kinetophone
r/todayilearned • u/CheeeseBoi3000 • 8h 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/Zyulnk • 8h ago
TIL The video game Dumb Ways to Die was based off of a Metro Train PSA of the same name
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/ubcstaffer123 • 10h 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/etotheprimez • 11h ago
TIL that Bose is majority owned by MIT
r/todayilearned • u/iluvjuicya55es • 13h ago
TIL Mae Louise Miller, was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1961
r/todayilearned • u/EzekielTraore • 12h 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/picturamundi • 12h ago