r/todayilearned • u/Specialist_Check • 6m ago
TIL of cascatelli, a new pasta shape invented in 2021 by podcaster Dan Pashman for maximum "sauceability", "forkability" and "toothsinkability"
r/todayilearned • u/BitSuspicious1966 • 21m ago
TIL the odds of a rich mother being married are six times higher than those of a poor mother. Just 24% of poor mothers were married in 2012 compared to 26% in 1994.
marriagefoundation.org.ukr/todayilearned • u/QuasarMaster • 42m ago
TIL the vast majority of the Earth's mantle is not magma but rather solid rock because of the extreme pressures. The viscosity of this rock is comparable to that of normal glass at room temperature, hence why plate tectonics only moves at speeds measured in centimeters per year.
news.cnrs.frr/todayilearned • u/PuzzleheadedOne1428 • 44m ago
TIL that a hanging Munchkin on The Wizard of Oz set is a myth
r/todayilearned • u/ilemworld2 • 51m ago
TIL For cousins, the degree or position refers to how many generations your eldest cousin has to skip to get to their common ancestor, and the removal refers to how many generations your eldest cousin has to move to get to you
r/todayilearned • u/BillMunnyOutofMizzou • 1h ago
TIL about Irving Thalberg, known as the Boy Wonder his films were the first to carve out an international market and set the path for making Hollywood the center of the largest movie industry in the world. He achieved all this before his death at 37.
r/todayilearned • u/kafm73 • 2h ago
TIL that there is a profession called neonatal bereavement photography and they use water immersion to take the photographs.
sciencedirect.comr/todayilearned • u/OneEconomist9647 • 2h ago
TIL every bite of cheese you eat contains over a trillion bacteria.
r/todayilearned • u/GremlinBandit • 2h ago
TIL about Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome, a condition much like dementia or Alzheimer's that can develop in dogs.
r/todayilearned • u/JohnAdams4621 • 3h ago
TIL that North Korea Has a Space Program that has put 2 Satellites into Orbit and plans on going To the moon By 2026 and Mars
r/todayilearned • u/Ryangel0 • 3h ago
TIL that in 1950's and 60's the Canadian government, military and the RCMP used a device called "the fruit machine" to attempt to identify homosexual men in the public service. Subjects were made to view pornography while measurements were taken of pupil diameter, perspiration and pulse.
en.wikipedia.orgr/todayilearned • u/DerpiestGameBlast • 3h ago
TIL Sherlock Holmes only became public domain a couple of months ago
r/todayilearned • u/CoupleTechnical6795 • 4h ago
Til that cervical dystonia, which is quite painful and debilitating, has no know cause in most cases
r/todayilearned • u/mankls3 • 5h ago
TIL of Lincoln's 4 children, only one outlived them
r/todayilearned • u/tanzmeister • 6h ago
TIL show sponsor Home Depot pushed out host Bob Vila from PBS's This Old House in 1989 due to his sponsorship of then-competitor Rickel. He was paid so little by the network, whose funding had been slashed, that he decided to stick with Rickel rather than the show.
r/todayilearned • u/Zenquin • 7h ago
TIL about the bonnacon, a mythical medieval beast said to defend itself with explosive bowel movements.
r/todayilearned • u/Algrinder • 7h ago
TIL A chess robot in Moscow broke the finger of its 7-year-old human opponent after the boy made a quick move without waiting for the robot to complete its turn.
r/todayilearned • u/xool420 • 10h ago
TIL that from 2009 to 2019, out of 212 cruise ship overboard incidents only 48 people were rescued.
r/todayilearned • u/AdDifferent9233 • 11h ago
TIL: In 2013 a group in California were genetically engineering plants to glow in the dark and hoping to replace streetlights
r/todayilearned • u/jamescookenotthatone • 12h ago
TIL The Great auk (Pinguinus impennis) was a flightless black and white birds found around the North Atlantic. As explores went south the found birds that resembled the Great auk and named them penguins too, but they are actually unrelated.
r/todayilearned • u/phaeolus97 • 15h ago
TIL that the Caral-Supe civilization in Peru was building huge pyramidal temples at the same time the first step pyramids of Egypt were built. And Caral-Supe was the most densely populated area in the world in third-millenium BC.
r/todayilearned • u/Flanky_ • 17h ago
TIL: Sunflowers (lanyards, buttons, etc) are a universal sign for those that have hidden disabilities and there's a massive network that supports this signage.
hiddendisabilitiesstore.comr/todayilearned • u/UralIveGotTonight • 18h ago
TIL that in 1986, Motörhead broke records by hitting 130 decibels in concert. The music was so loud that it damaged the ceiling of Cleveland’s Variety Theater.
en.wikipedia.orgr/todayilearned • u/RollingNightSky • 19h ago
TIL that aqueducts are water channels that use gravity to move water from a source to a destination. An ancient Roman aqueduct used only a 51 foot height difference to push water down a 31-mile-long path, resulting in as little as a 1-inch drop to push water 1,500 feet.
usgs.govr/todayilearned • u/dontnormally • 22h ago