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It’s always a good day to learn something new. And thanks to the abundance of information we are constantly bombarded with, both on social media and TV, we don’t need to lift a finger for it. Unless scrolling counts. But how many of these claims, arguments and statements we read are true and how many of them are bogus? After all, we’re constantly reminded to have an inner skeptic in charge of fact-checking things and taking them with a pinch of salt.

Alternatively, we can trust the Reddit powerhouse, everyone’s beloved destination for the most random facts, known as “Today I Learned.” With a mind-blowing 27.1 million members, it’s home to a seemingly never-ending collection of specific facts shared by people who just learned them and shared on there.

According to their rules, the sub does not accept facts that are “inaccurate/unverifiable/not supported by source” as well as posts that are “misleading claims and omit essential information.” They also say they don’t support opinions and subjective posts as well as posts that are too general.

So scroll down through the latest TIL selection below, and be sure to check out our previous posts with more random facts when you’re done here, here and here.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL 2010 Vancouver luge gold medallist Felix Loch had his medal melted into 2 discs and gave one to the parents of a deceased competitor who died in a practice run on the day of the opening ceremony.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL a female reporter attempted to recreate the famous novel "Around The World In 80 Days". Not only did she complete it with eight days to spare, she made a detour to interview Jules Verne, the original author.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Attempted???? She DID IT. But because she was a woman nobody has heard of it.... EDIT: I have to put this here as it seems necessary: This was not taught in schools outside the USA.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL Martin Luther King Jr was a huge fan of Star Trek. He loved that it showed a future with people of all colors working together in harmony. He bumped into Uhura, Nichelle Nichols, at a convention. She said she was quitting. She ended up staying after MLK urged her to, saying she was a role model.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every Trekkie loves Lt. Uhura, and are glad she stayed! Some love her for being a beautiful and and intelligent woman, some love her for being a racial pioneer, some love her for being a feminist pioneer as well as a racial one. Because I believe she was the first female military officer to appear on American TV, and certainly the first one who was a proper officer and not eye candy - when the ship went into combat she'd stay at her station and do her job! And then, there was Nichell Nichols of NASA...

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Every fact you come across on the internet has to be taken with a pinch of salt. We all know that, but not many of us go forward and actually do the fact-checking. “Fact-checking is important because anyone can say anything on the internet and you want to know that the information you consume is grounded in reality,” Daniel Markuson, a cybersecurity expert at NordVPN, told Bored Panda.

"A general rule of thumb is to make sure that your news comes from established, well-known sources. These outlets get their information straight from primary sources and must uphold their reputation," he explained.
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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL Hisako Koyama, a female Japanese astronomer who hand drew sunspots every day for more than 40 years. Her detailed sketches aid researchers in studying solar cycles and the sun's magnetic fields.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL Leonard Nimoy refused to join Star Trek the Animated Series without George Takai and Nichelle Nichols claiming they were proof of ethic diversity in the 23rd century.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't think I've ever heard a bad word about Nimoy.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that since Brazil could not afford to send a team to the 1932 Olympics, they sent the athletes on a ship full of coffee. The athletes sold the coffee along the way to fund their journey.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Coffee: So powerful it gets the job done even when you don't drink it!

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However, if you’re still not sure, Daniel's advice is to look into the author, research them, and make sure their credibility is up to par. "It is also important to weigh our own perception and not let our biases skew our understanding of events," he added.

It's no secret that social media helps to spread misinformation. The cybersecurity expert at NordVPN explained that it's because "the business models of the most popular social media platforms are based on increasing engagement. The core problem with this approach is that instead of focusing on providing their users with quality, fact-checked content, social media algorithms feed their users content that is most likely to increase likes, shares, and comments."
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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL an FBI whistleblower reported multiple problems in forensic cases. After years of the FBI seeking to ruin him, his claims were investigated and a report showed that forensic hair analysis was flawed or inaccurate over 90% of the time.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Got this off internet: is an American chemist and attorney who served as a Supervisory Special Agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory from 1986 to 1998. Concerned about problems he saw among agents, he went public as a whistleblower to bring attention to procedural errors and misconduct by agents. The FBI retaliated against Whitehurst for ten years before finally investigating his claims and agreeing to 40 reforms to improve the forensic reliability of its testing. is an American chemist and attorney who served as a Supervisory Special Agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory from 1986 to 1998. Concerned about problems he saw among agents, he went public as a whistleblower to bring attention to procedural errors and misconduct by agents. Dr. Whitehurst currently serves as the Executive Director of the Forensic Justice Project.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL Thought destroyed by Nazis, a priceless mosaic owned by Roman emperor Caligula ended up as a coffee table for 50 years in a NYC apartment.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that breast milk can adapt to a babies' illness and produce more milk with illness-specific antibodies.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is amazing. My milk turned greenisch blueidch when my son caught a cold.

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Turns out that "this usually leaves social media littered with posts that make bold and easy-to-digest statements and skip explaining the situation in detail—a perfect place for misinformation to proliferate." Daniel argues that most of the time the truth is messy and boring with many actors involved and interpretations of events available.

"On the other hand, rumors, bold claims, and simple fixes are easy to digest and entertaining. The attention-grabbing factor of misinformation combined with social media’s hunger for attention make them a pair made in heaven," he concluded.
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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that the work of Charles Drew, a pioneer in preserving blood, led to large-scale blood bank use, U.S. blood donations to Britons in WWII, and the use of bloodmobiles. He resigned as chief of the first American Red Cross blood bank over a policy that separated the blood of black and white people.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The heroic acts forgotten, the criers for peace murdered. Subliminally inculcated media fantasy and fear mongering. “He was against segregation” isn’t something that sells. Sorry, I’m in a misanthropic mood, but tis the season

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that Loving Day in June celebrates the day that Interracial Marriage became legal in the US.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Named after the couple who took their state all the way to the Supreme Court in order to have their marriage recognised.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL Emerson Romero was a silent film actor who was deaf. When movies with sound were invented, deaf actors got less roles and the intertitle text was removed. This led him to make an early form of movie captioning in 1947 so that movies would still be accessible to deaf people.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank god for this. I have to have CC on all the time or I can't hear what anyone is saying

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL of The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902. The French wanted rats exterminated from the sewer system. They set a bounty for each dead rat tail. Thousands of tails were submitted per day but the rat problem only grew worse. They found the hunters were breeding, not hunting, rats for their tails.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's called The Cobra Effect - named after an anecdote of an attempt by the British to reduce cobra numbers in Delhi by offering a cobra bounty, and discovering that people were breeding cobras for income. The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre wasn't quite how this describes though, as people were catching the rats, chopping off their tails, and rereleasing them so they could make more rats.- they weren't farming them or anything, just letting them go afterwards.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that to save the Hawaiian culture and people from disappearing, Kalākaua, the last king of the Hawaiian kingdom, went on a world tour in 1881, and travelled to Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, and he became the first reigning monarch to circumnavigate the globe.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He was the last king but not the last sovereign. Queen Liliuokalani had that honor, until deposed.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that 1604, King James I wrote ‘A Counterblaste to Tobacco’, in which he described smoking as a ‘custome lothesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He was right! Tobacco kills. I'm glad the younger generation knows this - there are way less young smokers thank goodness.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that Mississippi did not make child-selling illegal until 2009, after a woman tried to sell her granddaughter for $2,000 and a car and it was discovered that there was no law to punish her under.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There might not be a law but there sure is a bus. What a b!tch.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that in the 1950s, a psychiatrist had three paranoid schizophrenic patients who each believed they were Jesus Christ. He put them in a room together to see if their beliefs would change after confronting each other. They did not, in fact, change their beliefs but each individually came to the conclusion that the other two men were insane. They made a movie about it, called Three Christs.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I see that the movie stars Richard Gere as the psychiatrist, and Peter Dinklage as one of the patients. Now I'm curious to see it!

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL Thankful Villages (also known as Blessed Villages) are those few villages in Britain to which suffered no casualties in the First World War. These villages had lost no men in the war because all those who left to serve came home again when war ended.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looked at logically there are reasons this is the case. Taking the one I know about near me the village of Toft in Cambridgeshire. The population in 1914 was around 400, to give an idea of its size its population today is around 600. During the course of the war 7 of Tofts men were eligible to fight. There obviously wasn't enough men to form a friendly regiment (made up from men all on one village) so they at different times as they became of age joined nearby regiments. Thus lessening their chances of dying. This lesson was learned during the second world war and men from the same village were not allowed to enlist together. The term Thankful village was coined in 1930 by a guidebook writer, so it is to be taken with a large pinch of salt! After 1930 many villages saw the "thankful" status as a curse not a blessing as survivors guilt and close ties with neighbouring villages who had lost all men had an impact on the villages prosperity.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL Black Panthers are not a real species. They are jaguars and leopards who have “Melanism”, which causes them to have black skin. It's the opposite effect of having albinism.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that Willie O'Ree, the first black man to play in the NHL, was blind in one eye. It was caused by a ricocheting puck that hit him in the face when he was 18 and he kept it a secret for his entire 21-year career.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Which means he was even better than people thought he was.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL More than 30 million viewers in Britain tuned in to watch the BBC “Royal Family” documentary in 1969, such that during the intermission, the flushing of toilets all over London caused a water shortage.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Highlights of that show: an equerry delivering stacks of boxes containing "official work" to the Queen - it was later revealed that most of them were empty - and Prince Charles playing the cello and breaking a string, which hit Prince Edward in the face. As a PR exercise it was a failure and the Queen didn't allow it to be broadcast again

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that Tarzan actor and Olympic swimmer Johnny Weismuller and his brother were swimming in Lake Michigan when they saw a boat capsize. They pulled at least 14 people from the water, and 11 of those people survived.

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Here we can see Weismuller performing his famous 'Levitation' illusion to an assembled crowd. He would later go on to sit in a plastic box above the river Thames without any explanation whatsoever.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL in 2009 Burger King ran the "Whopper sacrifice" campaign, which gave a free whopper to anyone who deleted 10 friends on Facebook. Facebook suspended the program because Burger King was alerting people letting them know they'd been dropped for a sandwich.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL Finland used a lot of resources and logistics during WW II to bring the fallen to their home parishes for a proper funeral, instead of using mass graves in the battlefield.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that Paul McCartney is the only artist to reach the top of the UK charts as a solo artist, duo, trio, quartet, quintet and musical ensemble.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Paul McCartney? Or the replacement the Beatles hired after his untimely death. Conspiracy theory joke.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL in the 1980s, the last 29 Guam kingfishers were captured in an effort to save the species from total extinction caused by non-native brown tree snakes. Through the dedicated effort of zoos, there are now 140 around the world with the aim of reintroducing them back to the wild one day.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You only managed to get a hundred something birds together in forty years??

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL: In 2020, Colombians shipped 130 grams of cocaine to Italy, inside individually hollowed out coffee beans. They were caught when a customs official noticed the "sender" shared the same name as a mafia boss in John Wick.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL Brendan Fraser is the first American-born actor to be inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that In World War II, British spies plotted to spike Hitler's food with oestrogen to make him less aggressive.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's another dictator's food that needs spiking right now.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that unlike most animals, goats have excellent object permanence and are able to remember where objects are hidden without being able to see or smell them.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL when Charles Darwin was sent some flowers from a friend he noticed one flower was extremely long and bet some moth with really long mouth parts exists to pollinate it. A few years later that moth was discovered.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL about the liking gap, which is that people you meet like you more than you think. Psychologists found that "people systematically underestimated how much their conversation partners liked them and enjoyed their company."

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I tell people to their faces that I like them. They should know that I have a special place for them in my heart 😁

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that Poppy flowers became associated with the military after a Canadian poet was inspired by a field of poppies near a mass grave in Belgium following World War 1. The poppies grew there after the bombing and trench warfare churned up the soil, exposing dormant poppy seeds to the sunlight.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And I presume, because the European poppies were red. The poppies where I live are bright yellow-orange, where a color that doesn't lend itself to appropriate metaphors.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that Ethiopia has a unique calendar which is 7-8 years behind the rest of the world. The current year in Ethiopia is 2014.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that dolphins will come together to form mega-pods which can consist of over 10,000 dolphins.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL until the mid-1990s the Italian-American mafia controlled trash collection in New York City, fixing prices by extorting or murdering competitors or requiring them to join the price-fixing cartel. After an undercover operation convicted the leaders, trash collection costs dropped by $600 million.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL Jeff Cohen who played Chunk, the chubby kid in the Goonies went on to study law and entertainment law later co-founding the Cohen & Gardner firm in Beverly Hills. Earlier he asked Goonies director R.Donner for a recommendation for his college application Donner and his wife offered to pay for it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The goonies is one of my favorite movie's Goonies never say die 💀

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL a grown cat can jump between 5-8 times it's height. That would be the equivalent of human ability to jump from the ground up to 3rd or 4th floor!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Only if you measure the height on all fours for a cat, and standing for a human. But if you stand a cat on its hind legs, a cat can jump about twice its own height, still impressive though.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL a man in San Francisco deposited a junk mail check written for $95,000 dollars, received the money, and built a career off of the event.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL President Harding literally saved the U. S. Constitution which was deteriorating improperly stored at the State Dept. He had it preserved in a glass case.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He saved the paper copy of the U.S. constitution. The constitution itself got destroyed by his party in the following decades.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that in the early days of crossword puzzles, the game became an object of cultural hysteria. Newspapers and magazines from the 1920's - 1930's warned of a “crossword craze” gripping the country’s minds. The trend was described as an “epidemic,” a “virulent plague,” and a “national menace.”

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL about the woman who was hanging out with friends at the American Legion in a small Minnesota town. Her car slid off the icy road into a ditch. Trying to walk to a friend's house, she ended up freezing (solid!) in her friend's yard. She lived, was fine actually, and still lives in Minnesota.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL Wayne Gretzky's stats were so far ahead of his peers' that if you cut his entire career number in half he's still one of the top 20 players of all time.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have no idea who this Guy MacGregor is, what he's talking about and why he thinks someone is only important if he's heard of him. I googled him and got nothing, which was the exact value of his post.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that an average of 2 amputations occur weekly at US meatpacking plants.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL the way the sun "gives" people vitamin D is by converting cholesterol in the skin to vitamin D.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OK, I won't go into the physiology but this is misleading and scanty at best. It's a protein, EDIT: created in the processing of specifically 7-DHC, which is *dehydrocholesterol*, not "oh it'll clog your arteries cholesterol". This then forms a proto/pre Vitamin D EDIT: Vitamin D binding protein. Your liver and kidneys among other things help finish creating a form of Vitamin D that your body then uses. You're welcome for the *short and factual* version of this.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL the US-Canada border is the longest international border in the world, and that Alaska's portion alone is about 38%.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL: Migraines are 3 times more common in women than in men.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that French schools used to assign 'Le Symbole' to kids caught speaking minority languages (i.e. Breton, Occitan, Basque, etc). The only way to rid oneself of the symbol is to snitch on a fellow student. At the end of the day, the student with the symbol will receive some form of punishment.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is explains why French are so snobby about their language. To the point that they hate hearing it spoke by learners of the language and get overly pissy with mistakes made in learning conversations. They were erasing other cultural languages and colonizing minds with French. So there is an implicit bias at play. Meanwhile in Italy if you speak a word of Italian you will get a novel of Italian back and they will comfortably and happily let you muck your way through the interaction.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL The Big Ben's unique tone is because the bell had cracked in 1859, barely two months after its inauguration. The bell is since oriented in such a way the hammer doesn't strike the 'crack'.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The current bell is the second "Big Ben", the first one having also cracked. It was cast at what is now the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, in East London, as was the US Liberty Bell (approx 100 years earlier).

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL in 1970 Robert White successfully transplanted the head of a rhesus monkey onto another decapitated monkey. It survived for eight days, able to smell, hear, see, and move its mouth. But it was paralyzed from the neck down, as White was unable to reconnect the severed spinal cord.

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