#1
Image source: theotherbogart, jurvetson “TIL: Tracy Chapman sued Nicki Minaj for copyright infringement. According to the complaint, Chapman repeatedly refused to give Minaj permission to sample one of her songs, but Minaj did it anyway. Minaj settled and agreed to pay Chapman $450K.”
#2
Image source: Rifletree, Ignacio Campo “TIL During pregnancy, if the mother suffers organ damage, the baby in the womb sends stem cells to repair the damaged organ.”
#3
Image source: Apprehensive_Bug_826, woot “TIL The Spanish Inquisition would write to you, giving 30 days notice before arriving and these were read out during Sunday Mass. Although these edicts were eventually phased out, you originally always expected the Spanish Inquisition.”
#4
Image source: 4m2r0s, blackpast “TIL: One in four American cowboys were black.”
#5
Image source: jamescookenotthatone, Unknown “TIL Simeon Stylites lived on top of columns for 37 years. Simeon did this as a form of asceticism because when he lived in a cave people kept making pilgrimages to him and asking him religious questions. Ultimately his column life drew in even bigger crowds who would climb ladders to talk to him.”
#6
Image source: Arthur_Boo_Radley, Unknown “TIL the eunuchs of the last Chinese emperor wore their severed testicles and penises in jars around their necks when working.”
#7
Image source: GoodSamaritan_, Matthew Ansley “TIL in 2019 a Brazilian drug trafficker serving a 73 yr sentence tried to escape from prison by disguising himself as his teenage daughter who was visiting. His plan was to leave her behind in his place but his nervousness as he approached the exit tipped off the guards.He hung himself 3 days later.”
#8
Image source: ahm713, Charles J. Sharp “TIL The Arabian Oryx became extinct in the wild by the early 1970s, but was saved in zoos and private reserves, and was reintroduced into the wild starting in 1980. In 2011, it was the first animal to revert to vulnerable status on the IUCN Red List after previously being listed as extinct.”
#9
Image source: Ok_Copy5217, Boy Scouts of America “TIL As a child, Walt Disney’s mom convinced his dad, Elias, to buy him a set of colored pencils and some drawing paper. Elias did not approve, believing the boy should spend time engaged in hard, manual labor. Even after Walt became famous, Elias never considered animation a real job.”
#10
Image source: War_Hymn, Rainier Ridao “TIL that the Philippines is 1 out 2 countries in the world that still doesn’t allow divorce. It also has the 10th highest number of child brides globally, with 100,000 women married before their 15th birthday.”
#11
Image source: jamescookenotthatone, Dkaeuferle “TIL The aardwolf knows not to destory its food sources. Aardwolves eat part of a termite mound, leaves it, and return a few months later when the colony has rebuilt so it can have another meal. An aardwolf keeps track of mounds it attacked and can eat 250,000 termites in a single night.”
#12
Image source: PhonedVenus21345678, Guinness World Records “TIL – Walter Orthmann, a 100 year old, set the Guinness World Record for working at the same company for 84 years and nine days.”
#13
Image source: AspireAgain, felipepelaquim “TIL of “The Paradox of Choice.” Research indicates that when we are given too many options to choose from, we tend to end up less satisfied than if we had fewer options to choose from. Increased choice leads to higher expectations, followed by regret and self-blame.”
#14
Image source: WonderWmn212, SUNDAY POST “TIL Margaret Knight (1838-1914) invented a machine to mass produce flat-bottomed paper bags and, after winning a lawsuit against a fraudster who copied her design, the patent was issued in 1871. Her first invention was when she was 12 years old (and began working in a factory). She had 87 patents.”
#15
Image source: R4G, moh.gov “TIL of Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari, a Saudi who was the heaviest man alive at 1,340 lb. When Saudi King Abdullah heard of this, Khalid was ordered to a medical center in Riyadh. In about four years, Khalid would weigh 150 lb.”
#16
Image source: TodAllen-99, Dick Eussen “TIL that “Firehawks” a collection of three Australian bird species, are the only animals besides humans known to use fire to hunt. They will pick up burning sticks from fires and carry them in their beaks and talons before dropping it in unburnt vegetation setting the ground ablaze driving prey out.”
#17
Image source: anon, Oliver Herford “TIL a special law in the UK was created to ensure that the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital will forever be able to collect royalties from stage performances, audiobooks, book releases, etc. of Peter Pan in the UK. This is the only work with an ‘exception’ to copyright laws.”
#18
Image source: tom275bo, [1] “TIL in 1996, a 21-year-old man burst into a New Zealand radio station, took the manager hostage and demanded that Kermit the Frog’s rendition of Rainbow Connection be played.”
#19
Image source: Bigtsez, Kreepin Deth “TIL that Slash, guitarist of Guns N’ Roses, helped fund the dinosaur exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.”
#20
Image source: HeavyResonance, Gene Taylor “TIL hippos have a reflex mechanism that allows them to pop up, take a breath, and go back down without waking up so they can sleep underwater.”
title: “20 New Facts By Today I Learned Online Group” ShowToc: true date: “2024-09-26” author: “Amelia Kates”
#1
Image source: theotherbogart, jurvetson “TIL: Tracy Chapman sued Nicki Minaj for copyright infringement. According to the complaint, Chapman repeatedly refused to give Minaj permission to sample one of her songs, but Minaj did it anyway. Minaj settled and agreed to pay Chapman $450K.”
#2
Image source: Rifletree, Ignacio Campo “TIL During pregnancy, if the mother suffers organ damage, the baby in the womb sends stem cells to repair the damaged organ.”
#3
Image source: Apprehensive_Bug_826, woot “TIL The Spanish Inquisition would write to you, giving 30 days notice before arriving and these were read out during Sunday Mass. Although these edicts were eventually phased out, you originally always expected the Spanish Inquisition.”
#4
Image source: 4m2r0s, blackpast “TIL: One in four American cowboys were black.”
#5
Image source: jamescookenotthatone, Unknown “TIL Simeon Stylites lived on top of columns for 37 years. Simeon did this as a form of asceticism because when he lived in a cave people kept making pilgrimages to him and asking him religious questions. Ultimately his column life drew in even bigger crowds who would climb ladders to talk to him.”
#6
Image source: Arthur_Boo_Radley, Unknown “TIL the eunuchs of the last Chinese emperor wore their severed testicles and penises in jars around their necks when working.”
#7
Image source: GoodSamaritan_, Matthew Ansley “TIL in 2019 a Brazilian drug trafficker serving a 73 yr sentence tried to escape from prison by disguising himself as his teenage daughter who was visiting. His plan was to leave her behind in his place but his nervousness as he approached the exit tipped off the guards.He hung himself 3 days later.”
#8
Image source: ahm713, Charles J. Sharp “TIL The Arabian Oryx became extinct in the wild by the early 1970s, but was saved in zoos and private reserves, and was reintroduced into the wild starting in 1980. In 2011, it was the first animal to revert to vulnerable status on the IUCN Red List after previously being listed as extinct.”
#9
Image source: Ok_Copy5217, Boy Scouts of America “TIL As a child, Walt Disney’s mom convinced his dad, Elias, to buy him a set of colored pencils and some drawing paper. Elias did not approve, believing the boy should spend time engaged in hard, manual labor. Even after Walt became famous, Elias never considered animation a real job.”
#10
Image source: War_Hymn, Rainier Ridao “TIL that the Philippines is 1 out 2 countries in the world that still doesn’t allow divorce. It also has the 10th highest number of child brides globally, with 100,000 women married before their 15th birthday.”
#11
Image source: jamescookenotthatone, Dkaeuferle “TIL The aardwolf knows not to destory its food sources. Aardwolves eat part of a termite mound, leaves it, and return a few months later when the colony has rebuilt so it can have another meal. An aardwolf keeps track of mounds it attacked and can eat 250,000 termites in a single night.”
#12
Image source: PhonedVenus21345678, Guinness World Records “TIL – Walter Orthmann, a 100 year old, set the Guinness World Record for working at the same company for 84 years and nine days.”
#13
Image source: AspireAgain, felipepelaquim “TIL of “The Paradox of Choice.” Research indicates that when we are given too many options to choose from, we tend to end up less satisfied than if we had fewer options to choose from. Increased choice leads to higher expectations, followed by regret and self-blame.”
#14
Image source: WonderWmn212, SUNDAY POST “TIL Margaret Knight (1838-1914) invented a machine to mass produce flat-bottomed paper bags and, after winning a lawsuit against a fraudster who copied her design, the patent was issued in 1871. Her first invention was when she was 12 years old (and began working in a factory). She had 87 patents.”
#15
Image source: R4G, moh.gov “TIL of Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari, a Saudi who was the heaviest man alive at 1,340 lb. When Saudi King Abdullah heard of this, Khalid was ordered to a medical center in Riyadh. In about four years, Khalid would weigh 150 lb.”
#16
Image source: TodAllen-99, Dick Eussen “TIL that “Firehawks” a collection of three Australian bird species, are the only animals besides humans known to use fire to hunt. They will pick up burning sticks from fires and carry them in their beaks and talons before dropping it in unburnt vegetation setting the ground ablaze driving prey out.”
#17
Image source: anon, Oliver Herford “TIL a special law in the UK was created to ensure that the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital will forever be able to collect royalties from stage performances, audiobooks, book releases, etc. of Peter Pan in the UK. This is the only work with an ‘exception’ to copyright laws.”
#18
Image source: tom275bo, [1] “TIL in 1996, a 21-year-old man burst into a New Zealand radio station, took the manager hostage and demanded that Kermit the Frog’s rendition of Rainbow Connection be played.”
#19
Image source: Bigtsez, Kreepin Deth “TIL that Slash, guitarist of Guns N’ Roses, helped fund the dinosaur exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.”
#20
Image source: HeavyResonance, Gene Taylor “TIL hippos have a reflex mechanism that allows them to pop up, take a breath, and go back down without waking up so they can sleep underwater.”
title: “20 New Facts By Today I Learned Online Group” ShowToc: true date: “2024-08-30” author: “George Johnson”
#1
More info: Reddit Image source: atrailofdisasters, mugeinsky “TIL in 1908, the NYT reported a story on a dog that would push kids into the Seine in order to earn beefsteak treats for “rescuing” them.”
#2
Image source: nixass, Jeremy Bezanger “TIL There’s 3,200-Year-Old Egyptian Tablet Records Excuses for Why People Missed Work.”
#3
Image source: Str33twise84, Jake Allen “TIL in 2011, a 29-year-old Australian bartender found an ATM glitch that allowed him to withdraw way beyond his balance. In a bender that lasted four-and-half months, he managed to spend around $1.6 million of the bank’s money.”
#4
Image source: LongshanksAragon, isaacbenhesed “TIL about Jean Boulet who in 1972 set the world record for the highest altitude reached in a helicopter, 40,280ft. During descent his engines failed, and he landed the helicopter without power, setting another record in the process for the highest unpowered helicopter landing.”
#5
Image source: Kaos2018, Raamin ka “TIL A turkish mother that read lecture notes for four years to her blind daughter in law school, has been awarded an honorary degree with the daughter.”
#6
Image source: SonofSanguinius87, knl_photo “TIL about the Horse, Sergeant Reckless. A Horse who served with the marines in Korea. She was able to haul ammunition by herself without a handler, would seek a bunker or lay down when under fire and received two purple hearts as well as other medals for her service in the Korean war.”
#7
Image source: sunkid, Milo Weiler “TIL that by letting a wolf population recover, traffic collisions caused by deer are reduced by nearly 25%; the reduction is not based as much on the decimation of the deer population but on the “landscape of fear” created by the wolves.”
#8
Image source: thesuavedog, gpthree “TIL That the hair style Princess Leia wears in Star Wars, was inspired by women of the Mexican Revolution, most notably, guerrilla fighter Clara de la Rocha.”
#9
Image source: Giantsgiants, laura adai “TIL in 2013, JCPenney sold a stainless steel tea kettle that attracted controversy due to its perceived resemblance to Adolf Hitler.”
#10
Image source: literally12sofus, historyhd “TIL The Wright Brothers only flew together on the same flight one time, a six-minute flight on May 25th, 1910. They promised their father, Milton, they would never fly together to avoid the chance of a double tragedy and to ensure one brother would remain to continue their flight experiments.”
#11
Image source: lnhvtepn, fangweilin “TIL that “Old Book Smell” is caused by lignin — a compound in wood-based paper — when it breaks down over time, it emits a faint vanilla scent.”
#12
Image source: SimeoneXXX, glenncarstenspeters “TIL that 1996’s movie “Twister” was rated PG-13 for “intense depiction of very bad weather””
#13
Image source: Stotallytob3r, Denny Müller “TIL Captain Robert Campbell whilst a prisoner of the Germans in WW1 asked the Kaiser to visit his dying mother in England. Surprisingly he was given permission, provided he returned to prison afterwards. He did.”
#14
Image source: 1945BestYear, Alfons Morales “TIL that Alice Munro, co-founder of a bookstore with her then-husband Jim, started writing after reading some of the store’s stock and thinking “I can write better books than this.” In 2013, she won the Nobel Prize in Literature.”
#15
Image source: LazeLinez, iriser “TIL when you see actors smoking cigarettes in movies, they’re often smoking “Herbal Cigarettes” which contain other plants like lettuce or tea leaves instead of tobacco.”
#16
Image source: PikesPique, graphyco “TIL it took an Iowa man named Otto Frederick Rohwedder some 16 years to perfect and sell the first bread-slicing machine. A prototype made in 1912 was destroyed in a fire, and he didn’t sell his first slicing machine until 1928. Within 5 years, 80% of bread sold in the U.S. was pre-sliced.”
#17
Image source: derstherower, celebrityabc “TIL that when his film Uncut Gems began to receive critical acclaim, Adam Sandler threatened the world with making “the worst movie ever” if he did not receive a nomination for Best Actor at the Oscars. He was not nominated.”
#18
Image source: A_Disgruntled_Mule, couleuroriginal “TIL that one of the earliest recorded variations of classic dad phrase “Women: can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em” is found in a speech from 102 B.C. by Roman Censor Q. Caecilius Metellus Numidicus, in a speech that would be repeated by Caesar Augustus nearly a century later.”
#19
Image source: poyup, martinkatler “TIL that the new Rolls-Royce Ghost soundproofing was so overengineered that occupants in the car found the near-total silence disorienting, and some felt sick. Acoustic engineers had to go back and work on “harmonizing” various sounds in the car to add a continuous soft whisper.”
#20
Image source: Travellingjake, Kin Li “TIL every year at 3 p.m. on Christmas Eve, the 1958 special ‘Donald Duck and His Friends Wish You a Merry Christmas’ is screened on Sweden’s main channel. Swedes are so compelled by the cartoon that last year during the program, cell data usage fell 28% and calls to emergency services dropped 16%.”
title: “20 New Facts By Today I Learned Online Group” ShowToc: true date: “2024-10-14” author: “David Meade”
#1
Image source: theotherbogart, jurvetson “TIL: Tracy Chapman sued Nicki Minaj for copyright infringement. According to the complaint, Chapman repeatedly refused to give Minaj permission to sample one of her songs, but Minaj did it anyway. Minaj settled and agreed to pay Chapman $450K.”
#2
Image source: Rifletree, Ignacio Campo “TIL During pregnancy, if the mother suffers organ damage, the baby in the womb sends stem cells to repair the damaged organ.”
#3
Image source: Apprehensive_Bug_826, woot “TIL The Spanish Inquisition would write to you, giving 30 days notice before arriving and these were read out during Sunday Mass. Although these edicts were eventually phased out, you originally always expected the Spanish Inquisition.”
#4
Image source: 4m2r0s, blackpast “TIL: One in four American cowboys were black.”
#5
Image source: jamescookenotthatone, Unknown “TIL Simeon Stylites lived on top of columns for 37 years. Simeon did this as a form of asceticism because when he lived in a cave people kept making pilgrimages to him and asking him religious questions. Ultimately his column life drew in even bigger crowds who would climb ladders to talk to him.”
#6
Image source: Arthur_Boo_Radley, Unknown “TIL the eunuchs of the last Chinese emperor wore their severed testicles and penises in jars around their necks when working.”
#7
Image source: GoodSamaritan_, Matthew Ansley “TIL in 2019 a Brazilian drug trafficker serving a 73 yr sentence tried to escape from prison by disguising himself as his teenage daughter who was visiting. His plan was to leave her behind in his place but his nervousness as he approached the exit tipped off the guards.He hung himself 3 days later.”
#8
Image source: ahm713, Charles J. Sharp “TIL The Arabian Oryx became extinct in the wild by the early 1970s, but was saved in zoos and private reserves, and was reintroduced into the wild starting in 1980. In 2011, it was the first animal to revert to vulnerable status on the IUCN Red List after previously being listed as extinct.”
#9
Image source: Ok_Copy5217, Boy Scouts of America “TIL As a child, Walt Disney’s mom convinced his dad, Elias, to buy him a set of colored pencils and some drawing paper. Elias did not approve, believing the boy should spend time engaged in hard, manual labor. Even after Walt became famous, Elias never considered animation a real job.”
#10
Image source: War_Hymn, Rainier Ridao “TIL that the Philippines is 1 out 2 countries in the world that still doesn’t allow divorce. It also has the 10th highest number of child brides globally, with 100,000 women married before their 15th birthday.”
#11
Image source: jamescookenotthatone, Dkaeuferle “TIL The aardwolf knows not to destory its food sources. Aardwolves eat part of a termite mound, leaves it, and return a few months later when the colony has rebuilt so it can have another meal. An aardwolf keeps track of mounds it attacked and can eat 250,000 termites in a single night.”
#12
Image source: PhonedVenus21345678, Guinness World Records “TIL – Walter Orthmann, a 100 year old, set the Guinness World Record for working at the same company for 84 years and nine days.”
#13
Image source: AspireAgain, felipepelaquim “TIL of “The Paradox of Choice.” Research indicates that when we are given too many options to choose from, we tend to end up less satisfied than if we had fewer options to choose from. Increased choice leads to higher expectations, followed by regret and self-blame.”
#14
Image source: WonderWmn212, SUNDAY POST “TIL Margaret Knight (1838-1914) invented a machine to mass produce flat-bottomed paper bags and, after winning a lawsuit against a fraudster who copied her design, the patent was issued in 1871. Her first invention was when she was 12 years old (and began working in a factory). She had 87 patents.”
#15
Image source: R4G, moh.gov “TIL of Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari, a Saudi who was the heaviest man alive at 1,340 lb. When Saudi King Abdullah heard of this, Khalid was ordered to a medical center in Riyadh. In about four years, Khalid would weigh 150 lb.”
#16
Image source: TodAllen-99, Dick Eussen “TIL that “Firehawks” a collection of three Australian bird species, are the only animals besides humans known to use fire to hunt. They will pick up burning sticks from fires and carry them in their beaks and talons before dropping it in unburnt vegetation setting the ground ablaze driving prey out.”
#17
Image source: anon, Oliver Herford “TIL a special law in the UK was created to ensure that the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital will forever be able to collect royalties from stage performances, audiobooks, book releases, etc. of Peter Pan in the UK. This is the only work with an ‘exception’ to copyright laws.”
#18
Image source: tom275bo, [1] “TIL in 1996, a 21-year-old man burst into a New Zealand radio station, took the manager hostage and demanded that Kermit the Frog’s rendition of Rainbow Connection be played.”
#19
Image source: Bigtsez, Kreepin Deth “TIL that Slash, guitarist of Guns N’ Roses, helped fund the dinosaur exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.”
#20
Image source: HeavyResonance, Gene Taylor “TIL hippos have a reflex mechanism that allows them to pop up, take a breath, and go back down without waking up so they can sleep underwater.”
title: “20 New Facts By Today I Learned Online Group” ShowToc: true date: “2024-09-21” author: “Robert Lacroix”
#1
More info: Reddit Image source: atrailofdisasters, mugeinsky “TIL in 1908, the NYT reported a story on a dog that would push kids into the Seine in order to earn beefsteak treats for “rescuing” them.”
#2
Image source: nixass, Jeremy Bezanger “TIL There’s 3,200-Year-Old Egyptian Tablet Records Excuses for Why People Missed Work.”
#3
Image source: Str33twise84, Jake Allen “TIL in 2011, a 29-year-old Australian bartender found an ATM glitch that allowed him to withdraw way beyond his balance. In a bender that lasted four-and-half months, he managed to spend around $1.6 million of the bank’s money.”
#4
Image source: LongshanksAragon, isaacbenhesed “TIL about Jean Boulet who in 1972 set the world record for the highest altitude reached in a helicopter, 40,280ft. During descent his engines failed, and he landed the helicopter without power, setting another record in the process for the highest unpowered helicopter landing.”
#5
Image source: Kaos2018, Raamin ka “TIL A turkish mother that read lecture notes for four years to her blind daughter in law school, has been awarded an honorary degree with the daughter.”
#6
Image source: SonofSanguinius87, knl_photo “TIL about the Horse, Sergeant Reckless. A Horse who served with the marines in Korea. She was able to haul ammunition by herself without a handler, would seek a bunker or lay down when under fire and received two purple hearts as well as other medals for her service in the Korean war.”
#7
Image source: sunkid, Milo Weiler “TIL that by letting a wolf population recover, traffic collisions caused by deer are reduced by nearly 25%; the reduction is not based as much on the decimation of the deer population but on the “landscape of fear” created by the wolves.”
#8
Image source: thesuavedog, gpthree “TIL That the hair style Princess Leia wears in Star Wars, was inspired by women of the Mexican Revolution, most notably, guerrilla fighter Clara de la Rocha.”
#9
Image source: Giantsgiants, laura adai “TIL in 2013, JCPenney sold a stainless steel tea kettle that attracted controversy due to its perceived resemblance to Adolf Hitler.”
#10
Image source: literally12sofus, historyhd “TIL The Wright Brothers only flew together on the same flight one time, a six-minute flight on May 25th, 1910. They promised their father, Milton, they would never fly together to avoid the chance of a double tragedy and to ensure one brother would remain to continue their flight experiments.”
#11
Image source: lnhvtepn, fangweilin “TIL that “Old Book Smell” is caused by lignin — a compound in wood-based paper — when it breaks down over time, it emits a faint vanilla scent.”
#12
Image source: SimeoneXXX, glenncarstenspeters “TIL that 1996’s movie “Twister” was rated PG-13 for “intense depiction of very bad weather””
#13
Image source: Stotallytob3r, Denny Müller “TIL Captain Robert Campbell whilst a prisoner of the Germans in WW1 asked the Kaiser to visit his dying mother in England. Surprisingly he was given permission, provided he returned to prison afterwards. He did.”
#14
Image source: 1945BestYear, Alfons Morales “TIL that Alice Munro, co-founder of a bookstore with her then-husband Jim, started writing after reading some of the store’s stock and thinking “I can write better books than this.” In 2013, she won the Nobel Prize in Literature.”
#15
Image source: LazeLinez, iriser “TIL when you see actors smoking cigarettes in movies, they’re often smoking “Herbal Cigarettes” which contain other plants like lettuce or tea leaves instead of tobacco.”
#16
Image source: PikesPique, graphyco “TIL it took an Iowa man named Otto Frederick Rohwedder some 16 years to perfect and sell the first bread-slicing machine. A prototype made in 1912 was destroyed in a fire, and he didn’t sell his first slicing machine until 1928. Within 5 years, 80% of bread sold in the U.S. was pre-sliced.”
#17
Image source: derstherower, celebrityabc “TIL that when his film Uncut Gems began to receive critical acclaim, Adam Sandler threatened the world with making “the worst movie ever” if he did not receive a nomination for Best Actor at the Oscars. He was not nominated.”
#18
Image source: A_Disgruntled_Mule, couleuroriginal “TIL that one of the earliest recorded variations of classic dad phrase “Women: can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em” is found in a speech from 102 B.C. by Roman Censor Q. Caecilius Metellus Numidicus, in a speech that would be repeated by Caesar Augustus nearly a century later.”
#19
Image source: poyup, martinkatler “TIL that the new Rolls-Royce Ghost soundproofing was so overengineered that occupants in the car found the near-total silence disorienting, and some felt sick. Acoustic engineers had to go back and work on “harmonizing” various sounds in the car to add a continuous soft whisper.”
#20
Image source: Travellingjake, Kin Li “TIL every year at 3 p.m. on Christmas Eve, the 1958 special ‘Donald Duck and His Friends Wish You a Merry Christmas’ is screened on Sweden’s main channel. Swedes are so compelled by the cartoon that last year during the program, cell data usage fell 28% and calls to emergency services dropped 16%.”
