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We all probably carry around random pieces of information that we pull out as a party trick. For example, I like to tell people that it would take them 19 minutes to fall to the center of the earth.

If only there was a way to share these utterly amazing facts with millions of people. Fortunately for us, there is, and it’s called the “Today I Learned” subreddit.

It’s a place where all-knowing people gather to share their unlimited wisdom. From fake diseases to tombs for dogs, these facts really enrich the brain. So scroll down to find the collection of the best ones about everything and anything. Perhaps they’ll even inspire some fun trivia for your next dinner party with friends.

We also reached out to online quiz host Brie Zulkiewicz and Brianna Liestman brand engagement director behind Trivia Mafia who kindly agreed to tell us about the importance of learning facts and let us in on the secrets to hosting a great game!

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL a guide dog named Roselle led a group of people including her blind owner down 78 flights of stairs before the North Tower collapsed on 9/11. She only stopped to give kisses to a woman who was having a panic attack.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL:In January 1960, white jazz pianist Dave Brubeck canceled a twenty-five-date tour of colleges and universities across the American South after twenty-two schools had refused to allow his black bassist, Eugene Wright, to perform. He also canceled a tv show where they didn't want to show him.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL the former World Chess Champion G. Kasparov described Hungarian female chess player Polgár as a "circus puppet" and said that women chess players should stick to having children. Later in September 2002, in the Russia versus the Rest of the World Match, Polgár defeated Garry Kasparov.

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Indeed, trivia games can be great fun. Not only that, but it keeps up good brain health, reduces stress, and improves memory retention.

Think of it as a workout for your mind. It needs exercise to stay in its best shape. Quickly delivering niche facts is an effective way to exercise the brain’s frontal cortex, which is responsible for memory function. In return, your brain becomes sharper, and the information is retained more easily.

This game is as much about gaining new knowledge as it is about recalling old tidbits of information. It’s rare to know everything and get a perfect score, so naturally, there will be questions that leave participants baffled. Learning the correct answers keeps brain functions working. Additionally, studies have found a positive connection between intellectually engaging activities such as trivia and higher cognition.
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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL of Syndrome K: a fake disease that Italian doctors made up to save Jews who had fled to their hospital seeking protection from the Nazis. Syndrome K "patients" were quarantined and the Nazis were told that it was a deadly, disfiguring, and highly contagious illness. They saved at least 20 lives.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL of Dr. Donald Hopkins. He helped eradicate Smallpox, and is on the verge of killing another disease. He's taken Guinea Worm Disease down from 3.5 million cases a year to just 28 cases last year.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL During the American Revolution, an enslaved man was charged with treason and sentenced to hang. He argued that as a slave, he was not a citizen and could not commit treason against a government to which he owed no allegiance. He was subsequently pardoned.

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It also has the benefit of reducing stress and making us feel better. Focusing strictly on the game offers a great distraction from whatever is making one feel anxious or stressed. Also, getting together in a relaxed environment is a good opportunity to blow off some steam.

Playing, especially winning, can release a rush of dopamine in the brain, making the person feel satisfied, excited, and even euphoric. Unlike gambling, this surge of feel-good chemicals from trivia doesn’t have any negative effects. Providing all the more reason to participate!

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL Romans were known to create tombs for their dogs and gave them epitaphs to remember them by. One such inscription read, “I am in tears, while carrying you to your last resting place as much as I rejoiced when bringing you home with my own hands 15 years ago.”

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL hundreds of love letters between two gay World War II soldiers were found and are being made into a book. In one, one of them wrote, "Wouldn't it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. Then all the world could see how in love we are."

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL A Japanese company has awarded its non-smoking employees 6 extra vacation days to compensate for the smoker’s smoke breaks.

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Bored Panda reached out to Brianna Liestman from Trivia Mafia - a bar operation based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the guys behind it kindly agreed to tell us more about this game. They are known to produce the highest-quality quiz nights in bars, taprooms, distilleries, and private events. It's a lot of fun!

They firmly believe that such games help to be more sure of one's intelligence. "I would say that trivia nights help increase a person's confidence in their intellect. So many times, players will say "I'm no good at trivia," but then they are the person on their team who came through with the one clutch answer that helped them win the game. So if you want to feel smarter, come to trivia!"
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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL that a 13-year-old opened a hot dog stand in front of his home in Minnesota, causing a complaint to the health department. Instead of shutting him down, the inspectors helped him bring his stand up to code and paid the $87 fee for his permit out of their own pockets.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in S. Carolina when a 9yr-old Black boy refused to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT, and died in 1986, one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL of Adolfo Kaminsky, a 18 year-old French forger who faked IDs for Jews during WWII. He once worked for 3 days straight to make papers for 300 children until he passed out. He kept his work a secret - his own daughter only learned the details while writing a book about him.

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We also got in touch with Brie Zulkiewicz, who runs online trivia games on her Instagram account on Thursdays. Players can put their answers in a question box via an Instagram story and this week's game is ski theme-inspired. It's a great way to exercise your brain without leaving your sofa.

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She sees trivia as a great way to look back on the information we already have in our brains. "Personally, I think participating in trivia helps boost memory and recall. I often receive messages from my players telling me facts and anecdotes that they were reminded of by one of my questions.
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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL that everyone in Singapore above the age of 21 is automatically registered as an organ donor. Opting out from this Act will result in you being put at the very bottom of the organ priority list, should you need an organ transplantation.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL when NASA used electronic computers for the first time - to calculate John Glenn's orbit around Earth - officials called on Katherine Johnson to verify the computer's numbers; Glenn had asked for her specifically and had refused to fly unless Johnson verified the calculations.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL there’s a cemetery in the Netherlands consisting of 8,300 US veterans who died in WWII. For the past 70 years, Dutch families have come to the cemetery every Sunday to care for a grave they adopted. Hundreds of people are currently on a waiting list to become caretakers.

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When asked what makes a successful quiz night Brianna from Trivia Mafia told us "There are many factors that make trivia work. The first is the quality of questions: Trivia Mafia's approach to trivia is to avoid too many "either you know it or you don't" questions. We write round themes, and those theme descriptions are often really helpful in giving players a clue as to what the answer to a question could be.

For instance, at a recent trivia night, I am the kind of person who is hopeless with sports knowledge. But because I knew just enough about major players in baseball and I knew the rules of the round, I was able to get the answer."

They let us know that the second one is having a great host who is engaging and keeps people coming back week after week.

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And the third is meeting the audience where they are. " Our games are typically 90-120 minutes, and our hosts have flexibility within that time frame to pace trivia appropriately. Some players and businesses want the host to move a little faster so people can close their tabs or get their kids to bed on a school night. Other places want a longer experience, where folks are really taking their time answering questions, eating and/or drinking, and enjoying a night out."
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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL: Researchers taught African grey parrots to buy food using tokens. They were then paired up, one parrot given ten tokens and the other none. Without any incentive for sharing, parrots with tokens started to give some to their broke partners so that everyone could eat.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL A Scottish woman was sentenced to death by hanging around 1721. Maggie Dickson was hung, declared dead, put in a wooden coffin and carted off. She woke up en route to the churchyard, the law said her sentence had been carried out and she lived another 40 years known as 'Half-hangit Maggie'.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL that In 2018, A hacker broke into people’s routers (100,000 of them) and patched their vulnerabilities up so that they couldn’t be abused by other hackers.

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Brie also highlighted the importance of knowing your audience. "The most important part of planning a successful trivia night is knowing your audience. You will want very different questions for a busy crowded night at a sports bar versus a bridal shower brunch. Questions should always be tailored to ensure that the group is engaged and entertained rather than always prioritizing difficulty.
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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL in 1992, a California middle school ordered teachers to cover up all "obscene" words in Fahrenheit 451 with black marker before issuing copies to students. The school stopped this practice after local newspapers commented on the irony of defacing a book that condemns censorship.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL that in 1920, the town of Jackson, Wyoming elected an all-female town council by a margin of 2-1 over the men, drawing the most voters the town had ever seen. Known as the "pettycoat rulers," the women served for 3 years and did a great deal to clean up the notoriously lawless town.

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Lastly, we were curious to know the secrets that could help one score a win in a game of trivia. Trivia Mafia told us "Make more friends with different interests! The teams that do the best with trivia have a really wide Venn diagram of knowledge, even if there aren't a lot of people on the team.

Intergenerational teams also do really well, because there are zeitgeist moments that will be obvious to them that won't be as obvious to the person across the table. They can work together using their individual strengths."
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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy A school principal once made a student who'd gotten into trouble sit in the basement & read the U.S. Constitution as punishment. That student (who committed the Constitution to memory as a result) was Thurgood Marshall, who went on to become the first Black Supreme Court justice.

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Brie's advice to success is practice. "Trivia, like many hobbies, is something a player can improve on with practice. In general, staying aware of current events and taking time to read for enjoyment will improve your odds of success."
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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL that the firm Cantor Fitzgerald lost 658 employees on 9/11. The CEO, who was taking his child to school that day, later distributed $180 million to the families and offered jobs to all children of the victims. 57 of those children were employed by Cantor Fitzgerald as of 2016.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL Joseph Bazalgette, the man who designed London's sewers in the 1860's, said 'Well, we're only going to do this once and there's always the unforeseen' and doubled the pipe diameter. If he had not done this, it would have overflowed in the 1960's (it's still in use today).

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Brie signed off by saying "I always encourage players not to focus on winning or losing, but to lean into what they got out of the process. There are almost always questions that one can’t answer, but paying attention and reflecting on them can often be as personally beneficial as knowing the right answer."

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL that in 1916 there was a proposed Amendment to the US Constitution that would put all acts of war to a national vote, and anyone voting yes would have to register as a volunteer for service in the United States Army.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL of the Schiphol fly, which is a fly engraved on urinals at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. The psychology is that men will want to "wash" the fly off the urinal so they focus more when urinating, apparently lowering cleaning bills in public bathrooms.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy Some elephants eat off a specific tree to induce labor - the same tree which Kenyan women brew a tea of for the same purpose

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL of Diego, a tortoise whose high libido helped save his species. He & E5 (another male) brought the population from 15 to 2,000, and now the species is considered self-sufficient. After 80 years in captivity, Diego is now retired in the Galápagos, where he'll spend the rest of his life having sex.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL of Ken Allen, a Borneo orangutan in the San Diego Zoo who escaped his enclosure three times. He never acted aggressively towards anyone during his escapes, and generally wandered around the zoo looking at other animals.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL If you grind a marine sponge through a sieve into salt water, it'll reorganize itself back into a sponge. It's the only animal that we know of that can do that.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy Genghis Khan would marry off a daughter to the king of an allied nation. Then he would assign his new son in law to military duty in the Mongol wars, while his daughter took over the rule. Most sons in law died in combat, giving his daughters complete control of these nations.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL about pack horse librarians that serviced the Appalachian communities (e.g., rural Kentucky) in the mid 1930s to early 1940s who were mostly women who rode on horses or mules to deliver library books to remote communities during the Great Depression.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL of a French soldier who was taken as a POW and fed only potatoes during his captivity, and survived. Feeling like he should have died, he made it his life’s mission to convince the world of the nutritional value of potatoes, and his tomb in France is decorated with potatoes as a tribute.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL that Russian President Boris Yeltsin once got so drunk at a state dinner that he drummed on Kyrgyzstan President Askar Akayev's bald head, using dinner spoons.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL Noninvasive spinal stimulation enables paralyzed people to regain use of hands. A team of scientists reports that six people with severe spinal cord injuries — three of them completely paralyzed — have regained use of their hands and fingers.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL A Stolen teddy bear with dying mother's voice has been returned after actor Ryan Reynolds and other celebrities offered a $15,000 reward.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL that elephants are tremendous distance swimmers. They can swim for up to six hours and 25 miles (48km). They are so buoyant that if they tire in the water, they can just rest by floating and will not sink. They can also use their trunk as a snorkel and dive.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL that for 18 months, a village in Wales was mystified as to why their broadband internet crashed at 7am every morning, until engineers "picked up a large burst of electrical interference" springing from one dude turning on his very old TV.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy Icelandic horses are not allowed to leave the country. If they do, they are banned from returning. This is because Iceland is an island so they have limited diseases, and this is another measure to prevent it.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL about Judith Catchpole, a young maidservant in the colony of Maryland, who was tried in 1656 for witchcraft and killing her newborn child. The judge summoned an all-female jury, who determined that Judith did not kill her child - in fact, there were no signs that Judith had even been pregnant.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has disdain for money and large wealth accumulation. In 2017 he said he didn’t want to be near money, because it could corrupt your values. When Apple went public, Wozniak offered $10 million of his stock to early Apple employees, something Jobs refused to do.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy Vietnamese farmers after the war repurposed external fuel tanks jettisoned by American planes into river canoes, which have lasted for nearly 5 decades.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy Mexico passed a law that requires food packages to display large black octagonal "warnings" if the product is high in sugar, sodium, calories, or unhealthy fats.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL that the juggling done by David Bowie's character in Labyrinth was actually performed by juggler Michael Moschen, who had to do all the tricks blind while standing behind Bowie. He won a MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant" for his techniques a few years later in 1990.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL that the youngest French resistance hero was a little boy who acted as a courier for resistance fighters, slipping past enemy patrols and carrying messages. In 1950, he was posthumously awarded the rank of sergeant of the resistance. He was Marcel Pinte, and he died for France at the age of 6.

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50 Best Of All Time “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep The Brain Active And Healthy TIL that the stick -- a small tree branch -- was inducted into the (U.S.) National Toy Hall of Fame in 2008. Organizers called it one of the world's oldest toys and said sticks "promote free play -- the freedom to invent and discover."

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