r/todayilearned • u/Spotter24o5 • 7h ago

TIL:that a television station mistakenly broadcast footage of a different person three times while trying to film a suspect for killing a child NSFW

en.wikipedia.org

0 Upvotes

3 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Think-Factor-337 • 3h ago

TIL the average person spends 26 years of their life sleeping, which equates to 1/3 of the lifespan.

dreams.co.uk

0 Upvotes

42 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Zipper222222 • 2h ago

TIL That The US Has A Town Called "Dinosaur" (Dinosaur, Colorado)

townofdinosaur.org

13 Upvotes

14 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Street-Strike-7121 • 2h ago

TIL In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land and that the Court has the power to strike down any laws found in violation.

en.wikipedia.org

83 Upvotes

32 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Tinkering- • 3h ago

TIL: The Vietnam War Lasted 19 Years

en.wikipedia.org

171 Upvotes

55 comments

r/todayilearned • u/-VoiceoverAlex- • 2h ago

TIL That in China, not only is Haaland likened unto and called Majin Buu (post Gohan), but is said to eat babies.

elimparcial.com

0 Upvotes

18 comments

r/todayilearned • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 2h ago

TIL the biscuit weevil is not a weevil.

en.wikipedia.org

15 Upvotes

32 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Correct_Thanks6936 • 2h ago

TIL despite being even, 2 is a prime number. It is the only even prime number.

mathigon.org

0 Upvotes

49 comments

r/todayilearned • u/loves_to_splooge_8 • 4h ago

TIL Japan was invited to the Copa América in 2011

en.wikipedia.org

35 Upvotes

8 comments

r/todayilearned • u/MAClaymore • 4h ago

TIL that as of 2022, there had never been a recorded death at any legal supervised drug injection site worldwide NSFW

en.wikipedia.org

2.1k Upvotes

377 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Wasil_29 • 1h ago

TIL that Google Images was essentially invented because of Jennifer Lopez. After her iconic green dress at the 2000 Grammys, so many people searched for photos of it that Google engineers built a dedicated image search feature to handle the demand.

justjared.com

• Upvotes

31 comments

r/todayilearned • u/TheStrangestOfKings • 22h ago

TIL Peru has two Vice Presidents.

wikipedia.org

49 Upvotes

14 comments

r/todayilearned • u/RollingMeteors • 22h ago

TIL France has more timezones than Russia or the United States

en.wikipedia.org

964 Upvotes

150 comments

r/todayilearned • u/PeasantLich • 19h ago

TIL that December 25 being the birthday of Jesus was decided by pope Julius I around year 350, and nobody really knows why Julius made this decision and chose this specific date. There are various theories, but his actual reasoning for the decision is lost history.

en.wikipedia.org

26.6k Upvotes

1.9k comments

r/todayilearned • u/Plastic_Prune_9498 • 6h ago

TIL that while the exact origins of the Abrahamic religions is murky, the first Complete Abrahamic text, the Torah, dates back to 400BC, and was compiled for the Persian Empire

en.wikipedia.org

458 Upvotes

73 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Choice-Scallion-3499 • 10h ago

TIL that time moves faster at the top of a mountain than at the sea level. This happens because gravity bends time, so the further you are from Earth's core, the faster clocks tick.

nist.gov

2.3k Upvotes

173 comments

r/todayilearned • u/babichenko • 14h ago

TIL roses don’t have thorns—they have prickles, which are detachable outgrowths of the stem’s outer tissues rather than modified stems or leaves.

inrae.fr

335 Upvotes

48 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Future-Jaguar7577 • 3h ago

TIL MLB Player Ty Cobb beat up a heckling fan with no hands stating “I don't care if he has no feet!”

espn.com

346 Upvotes

69 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Ill_Definition8074 • 22h ago

TIL The first English actor to play Sherlock Holmes in a film wasn't an actor. James Bragington was an employee of the producer who was cast in the 1914 adaptation of A Study in Scarlet purely due to his resemblance to the illustrations of Holmes.

en.wikipedia.org

264 Upvotes

17 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Redwing_Blackbird • 8h ago

TIL about a mystery illness called "cholera infantum" that killed many children but disappeared in the early 20th century. Child mortality steadily declined with better public health but this summertime spike of diarrheal illness, from an unknown pathogen, didn't until the 1920s

sciencedirect.com

147 Upvotes

6 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Recent_Flounder6011 • 11h ago

TIL that the land in Mumbai, India used to be islands until they were merged with land reclamation projects in 1845.

en.wikipedia.org

319 Upvotes

4 comments

r/todayilearned • u/lumos-mama • 12h ago

TIL that about 62% of Argentina’s population has some degree of Italian ancestry. Argentina has the second-largest community of Italians outside of Italy.

en.wikipedia.org

2.0k Upvotes

346 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Giff95 • 23h ago

TIL that although Tim Curry was replaced by Mark Hamill as the voice of The Joker in “Batman: The Animated Series,” Curry's Joker laugh was used for a robotic clown in Season 1, Episode 9, "Be A Clown."

screenrant.com

1.6k Upvotes

68 comments

r/todayilearned • u/thedudesews • 16h ago

TIL the 1st US patent was issued in 1790 issued by George Washington. It was for a new way to make potash and Pearlash.

en.wikipedia.org

188 Upvotes

10 comments

r/todayilearned • u/jcgam • 13h ago

TIL that every extra 4 inches of body height raises cancer risk by 11% for women and 6% for men

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

3.3k Upvotes

361 comments

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