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They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but what about pandas? We believe that, regardless of your age, you can always learn something new. Just ask the members of Reddit’s ‘Today I Learned’ community! This group, which has an impressive 31 million members, is a wealth of information that’s constantly changing and updating, so below, we’ve gathered some of our favorite recent posts from TIL. 

Keep reading to also find an interview with Alison Winfield-Chislett, founder and director of The Goodlife Centre in the UK, and be sure to share the tidbits of information you find most fascinating with your friends. I’m sure they’d like to learn more about why dishwashers were invented and why there are hundreds of raccoons wreaking havoc in Japan!

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL about Don Ritchie, an Australian who intervened and prevented at least 180 suicide attempts at a notable suicide destination called The Gap. He lived nearby and would approach and ask “Can I help you in some way?”

PRSouthern , Kurosi Report

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And apparently he didn't specifically stop them. Just started a conversation. And he said it was just enough of an interaction sometimes to make people feel compassion and change their minds. A hero among men.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL One of the largest charitable donations made by a lottery winner came from a man in Canada. Two years after his wife died from cancer, Tom Crist won the lotto and donated everything to organizations fighting the disease. Canada doesn't tax winnings, so Crist donated $40 million.

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To learn more about why it's important to be a lifelong learner, we reached out to Alison Winfield-Chislett, founder and director of The Goodlife Centre in the UK, and she was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda. The Goodlife Centre is an independent learning space in London that offers practical boutique workshops in DIY, Home Maintenance, Decorating, Upholstery, Woodwork & Carpentry, Furniture Upcycling & Restoration and various traditional hand Crafts. It's the perfect place to go to learn something new, which Alison says is important to "help us feel vital and part of life. We can continue to grow until the day we die."

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL in 1952, Jimmy Carter led a team of nuclear scientists in disassembling a Canadian nuclear reactor undergoing meltdown. To accomplish this, Carter, alongside other American military personnel, personally lowered himself into the reactor to disassemble it by hand.

JJKingwolf , Patrick McGarvey Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jimmy Carter is an amazing man. It will be a shame when he eventually passes away (he entered hospice a few weeks ago).

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL of castaway huts (or depots) which are deliberately placed on isolated islands by governments. They contain supplies and tools which can help people who become stranded there. Most were built by the New Zealand government in the 19th and 20th centuries.

bermuda__ , LawrieM Report

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd really like to know how often they are used and needed.

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When it comes to the benefits of learning something new, Alison says, "As we get older we can challenge any belief system that has held us back. ‘I don’t know how to…’ becomes ‘I’m learning how to…’"

Alison also shared with Bored Panda that there's no end to what she's curious about. "I love all materials and processes. The practical methods of making your world personalised leads on forever. There’s always a way to improve what you make."

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL the ancient Nazca got water in the middle of the desert through an engineered series of 46 aqueducts running 12 m underground. They were built around 200-500 AD, and 32 of them are still used by local farmers today.

PianoCharged , Diego Delso Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is awesome! I continue to be amazed at the ancient feats of engineering! And then we learn that some of these feats are still practiced to this very day!

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL about Josephine Cochrane, who invented the dishwasher because she was fed up of China breaking whilst being hand washed.

blaikes , www.kidsdiscover.com Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I too, detest the feeling of Asian nations shattering as I clean my food platters. (Sarcasm, lol)

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Alison also noted that we can find inspiration for learning anywhere. "I asked myself ‘Why is it called that?’ A little tool known as a ‘Gent’s saw’ led me to learn about the 19th century craft revolution when ‘gentlemen’ tried using their hands like ‘artisans’."

"When we are using our hands to make something, we connect with a part of ourselves that feels like we are home," she added. "There’s no place like it."

If you'd like to learn a new skill, particular one that involves working with your hands, be sure to check out The Goodlife Centre's website right here.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL by passing a law requiring pharmacies to be owned by a licensed pharmacist, North Dakota has essentially done away with corporate chain pharmacies. Corporations that own pharmacies must be majority owned by licensed pharmacists.

Cjustinstockton , Nathaniel Yeo Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

same in Ontario but chains "franchise" each location. certainly doesn't save us any money.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL that mature bull elephants play a pivotal role in elephant society. The absence of mature bulls creates juvenile delinquency in younger bulls, who will soon enter musth. When mature bulls were introduced into areas with a high concentration of delinquents, they soon put a stop to this behavior.

TheGuyNoOneSees , Roger Brown Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes big brother needs to correct little brothers behaviour. My older brother did when I stepped out of line

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL of Movile Cave, which has been completely sealed off from the outside world for 5.5 million years and evolved dozens of animal species found nowhere else, sustained only by toxic chemicals in the air and water, not photosynthesis.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Very cool! Here's the wiki article on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movile_Cave

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL Roman concrete structures such as the Pantheon and aqueducts are ultra durable because of lime clasts. While many modern concrete structures crumble after a few decades, Roman concrete has self-healing functionality from lime clasts which allow their structures to survive millennia.

The_Ry_Ry , Bernard Gagnon Report

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL in 1993 Mattel's Barbie division accidentally released a Gay Ken doll. Despite being quickly recalled, it remains the best selling Ken doll of all time.

Ike_Arumba , Cyle Suesz for In The Know Report

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TIL that in 2014, Diana Nyad became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without using a shark cage. She endured a 104-mile swim through jellyfish and shark-infested waters, taking approximately 53 hours. Amazingly, she was 64 years old when she made this swim.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Shark infested waters? They live there, she was the visitor!

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TIL of Dr. Jochem Hoyer, a German transplantation surgeon who argued in favour of altruistic organ donations. After a colleague criticized him for praising "living donors as long as it is NOT you who has to donate" Hoyer donated a kidney to an unknown stranger to make a quote "very strong statement".

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL in 1974 the band Ace had their only hit, How Long (has this been going on). The song is not about a cheating girlfriend - it’s about the band’s bass player, who was moonlighting with another band.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I immediately started singing this in my head. Definitely not out loud though…nobody wants that!

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL that Nikola Tesla once worked for Thomas Edison but left due to a disagreement over payment for his work on improving Edison's DC power systems. Tesla went on to develop AC power systems, which became the basis for modern electrical grids.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And also unknowingly brought about the name of an awesome band. AC/DC

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TIL A slave couple escaped to the North in 1848 by disguising her, a light-skinned black woman, as his owner, and him, darker-skinned, as her valet. She was illiterate at the time, so they put her arm in a sling against signatures and pretended she was sick. An acquaintance nearly recognized them.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This slave couple was Ellen and William Craft. They went on to form a school to educate emancipated blacks after starting a family in Boston.

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TIL that scientists created a 60 year long experiment in Siberia, selectively breeding wild foxes who showed friendly traits. 40 generations later they were as friendly as dogs!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The really interesting thing about the experiment is that selecting solely for friendliness resulted in a major change in colouring of the foxes involved. Scientists are still debating whether the change in coat colour is genetically linked to friendliness or not. In dogs it is, domestic dogs are not usually the same colours as wild wolves.

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TIL Impressed with his energy and ability to do the splits, the owner of the Oakland A's hired an 11-year old named Stanley Burrell as a batboy and personal play-by-play announcer. A's player Reggie Jackson gave the kid a nickname, Hammer, who would later become MC Hammer.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sooo.... he was an announcer... nicknamed Hammer... who later chose the stage name MC ( master of ceremonies / Emcee) Hammer. The only batboy I know by name is Robin.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL Sperm whales use babysitters. Sperm whale youths cannot dive as deep as their mothers so when the mother needs to forage in the deep the youth is kept safe by swimming with other adult whales.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL A repairman wanted to get out of work early and intentionally started a fire, causing $700,000,000 in damages to the USS Miami submarine.

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TIL Robin Williams improv was so good in FernGully the director tripled his character’s screen time for the final cut.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Didn’t the same thing happen for Aladdin? Gosh, I miss Robin Williams!

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL that we start forgetting early childhood memories at around age 7.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL Japan has become infested with North American raccoons after an anime based on the book Rascal aired in 1977 and caused thousands of raccoons to be imported as pets only to be released into the wild.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL the Myers-Briggs has no scientific basis whatsoever.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nor the zodiac signs and yet people seriously believe in them. Same with religions. I'm not surprised, but in a world where not everyone cares about whether science backs up their believes I don't think knowing this would change I thing

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL 70% of people in the world do not use toilet paper.

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TIL that bioluminescence in fireflies is nearly 100 percent efficient, meaning little energy is wasted to produce their light.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember the very first time i saw one, we were on holiday on Kefalonia, I thought it was a magic fairy.

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TIL that the actor who played Darth Vader, David Prowse, was banned from attending official Star Wars events because he leaked too many plot details.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL the crews of Apollo 11, 12, and 14 had to spend 3 weeks in quarantine after returning to Earth because of the possibility that they might spread contagions from the moon.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why? Something living up there they're not telling us about? 🤔😂

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TIL That in case of emergency in a railroad crossing, instead of dialing 911, we should first look out for a blue and white sign that has a phone number that will get you in touch with the railroad dispatcher, who can radio the engineers of nearby trains to immediately stop short of that crossing.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is supposed to be such a number at every grade crossing (in the USA), but people still try to get their vehicle loose until it is too late to stop the train.

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TIL The prototype of the Rolls Royce Ghost was so quiet inside that it made test drivers sick. The engineers had to remove some of the noise-isolating material, and create seats that vibrated at specific frequencies to introduce some noise into the interior.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I get this! European super speed trains are so fast and smooth that I get sick. I need me a little shake and rattle occasionally to remind me I'm on the ground.

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TIL about Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, a medicine used in the early 1900s to quiet infants and teething children. Popular in the US and UK it took twenty years of doctors' complaints before it was withdrawn from the market for being a "baby killer." The main ingredient was morphine.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL as a research student, Lawrence Bragg figured out how to use X-ray to study the atomic structure. His breakthrough discovery earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics at age 25.

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It's actually not that unusual for Nobel-winning discoveries to happen in early life. The average age for publication of Nobel physicists' major work is 42. What is unusual is that Bragg was recognised so quickly: on average, the Nobel prize is granted 20 years after the discovery. https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/the-age-at-which-noble-prize-research-is-conducted

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL the Japanese turned the third of their superbattleships (after Yamato and Musashi) into the largest aircraft carrier ever built at the time. After four years of construction and enormous cost, she left the shipyard and was immediately sunk by a submarine.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Shinano was handed over to the Japanese Navy on the 19th November and torpedoed by U.S. submarine Archerfish on 28th November. Shinano had put to sea with inadequate support from other vessels, she was underpowered as her boilers weren’t up to full power (some weren’t even working) and she made an easy target for Archerfish. At a shade under 70,000 tons she remains the largest vessel sunk by a submarine. Of a crew of 2,400 only 1,080 survived, they were then kept isolated on an island in order to stop the news of such a devastating loss from being broadcast through Japan.

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TIL Charles Dickens had a talking pet raven named Grip, who terrorized his dog, buried valuables in the yard, and died eating "a pound or two" of lead paint. As a character in one of his novels, Grip is believed to have inspired Poe's famous poem, and is on display in a Philadelphia public library.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wonder if that is out of order. Maybe it was - eats lead paint - goes a bit mental - then terrorizes dog and steals valuables.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL that South Korea's CIA recruited a suicide squad to kill North Korea's dictator, Kim Il Sung. The squad mutinied, killed their commanders, hijacked a bus to Seoul, and were blown up by their own military. The survivors were then executed.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL that the Fahrenheit scale was standardized 18 years before Celsius. The world switch due to the British Empire. The United States is actually using the earlier standard.

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TIL Japan has used history textbook that contained references to the Nanjing Massacre, anti-Japanese resistance movements in Korea, forced suicide in Okinawa, comfort women, and Unit 731 since the mid 1990s.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The only way to not repeat history is learn from past mistakes, so they don't hide theirs

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TIL beneath the Puerto Rico Trench is a mass so dense it has a gravitational pull on the surface of the ocean, causing it to dip somewhat. The Trench is also associated with the most negative gravity anomaly on earth, -380 milliGal, which indicates the presence of an active downward force.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The acceleration due to gravity varies quite a lot from place to place on the Earth's surface. The famous 9.81 m/s^2 is only an approximation. Since Britain has a high acceleration due to gravity and Australia has a low acceleration due to gravity, you can actually lose weight by travelling from Britain to Australia.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL Crypto.com mistakenly sent a customer $10.5 million instead of an $100 refund by typing the account number as the refund amount. It took Crypto.com 7 months to notice the mistake, they are now suing the customer.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL that King Alfonso XIII of Spain,was known as "the Playboy king"and considered the pioneer of pornographic cinema in Spain.He commissioned pornographic films considered immoral and degenerate, including sexual relationships involving Catholic priests, and his passion "women with enormous breasts".

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