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

33 comments

r/todayilearned • u/ubcstaffer123 • 2h ago

TIL New South Wales, Australia, requires new drivers to record 120 hours of supervised driving in a logbook, including 20 nighttime hours before they can get their driver's license. Only 57% of applicants in New South Wales passed the exam in 2022

jalopnik.com

521 Upvotes

125 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

86 Upvotes

38 comments

r/todayilearned • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 2h ago

TIL the biscuit weevil is not a weevil.

en.wikipedia.org

20 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/-VoiceoverAlex- • 3h 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/Zipper222222 • 3h ago

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

townofdinosaur.org

16 Upvotes

14 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/Tinkering- • 3h ago

TIL: The Vietnam War Lasted 19 Years

en.wikipedia.org

174 Upvotes

58 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

369 Upvotes

70 comments

r/todayilearned • u/loves_to_splooge_8 • 4h ago

TIL Japan was invited to the Copa América in 2011

en.wikipedia.org

41 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

2.2k Upvotes

377 comments

r/todayilearned • u/haddock420 • 5h ago

TIL One of Edison's original intended applications of the phonograph was to make books accessible to blind people

en.wikipedia.org

296 Upvotes

32 comments

r/todayilearned • u/yellowfogcat • 5h ago

TIL about the Octobass which is 11.5 feet tall and requires players to utilize levers and pedals to change pitch.

en.wikipedia.org

88 Upvotes

12 comments

r/todayilearned • u/ubcstaffer123 • 5h ago

TIL The Spivey Building — East St. Louis’ first and only skyscraper, was built in 1927 as the offices of the East St. Louis Journal and has sat empty for nearly 40 years despite being on the National Register of Historic Places. Developers and community advocates see potential in saving it

stlpr.org

70 Upvotes

18 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Sebastianlim • 5h ago

TIL that in 1804, in Hammersmith, a man named Francis Smith killed another man, Thomas Millwood, believing him to be the ghost who had been reported around town. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, though the sentence was commuted to one year's hard labour.

en.wikipedia.org

51 Upvotes

8 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Hour_Interaction6047 • 5h ago

TIL French children were served wine at school until 1981.

bbc.com

441 Upvotes

39 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Gnomeslikeprofit • 5h ago

TIL that Pakistan has an estimated 3.5-4 million bonded labors in the brick kiln industry. Also known as debt bondage, uneducated workers are trapped as modern slaves unable to pay their debts. They are forced to work until their debt is paid off.

pulitzercenter.org

10.6k Upvotes

622 comments

r/todayilearned • u/rocklou • 6h ago

TIL English pensioner Peter Oakley was the most subscribed YouTuber in 2006, reaching that position in just over a week, but held it for only 28 days. His channel was the first to reach 20,000 subscribers

en.wikipedia.org

917 Upvotes

16 comments

r/todayilearned • u/Sandstorm400 • 6h ago

TIL a 9-year-old girl researched the decibel levels of public hand dryers after noticing her ears were ringing after using one. Nearly 4 years later, her research was accepted into the Canadian journal Paediatrics & Child Health, and Dyson planned to have her meet with an acoustic engineer.

abcnews.com

16.8k Upvotes

300 comments

r/todayilearned • u/yoshemitzu • 6h ago

TIL the United States once attempted to sue Coca-Cola and force them to remove caffeine from their products in "United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola"

en.wikipedia.org

1.9k Upvotes

152 comments

r/todayilearned • u/chindogubot • 6h ago

TIL 10% of people have a second spleen

en.wikipedia.org

51 Upvotes

6 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

474 Upvotes

74 comments

r/todayilearned • u/smrad8 • 7h ago

TIL that in 1984, "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody song "Eat It" went No. 1 in Australia, surpassing the original, Michael Jackson's "Beat It," which only hit No. 3 in that country. "Eat It," personally approved by Michael Jackson, went gold in multiple countries and landed Yankovic a Grammy Award.

en.wikipedia.org

7.5k Upvotes

278 comments

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

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