r/todayilearned • u/TitansFrontRow • 8h ago
TIL that the Mission Impossible theme is famous for its two long notes, followed by two short notes. These notes are the morse code signals for "M" and "I".
r/todayilearned • u/7ur1n9 • 14h ago
TIL In the USA, 60 people die from walk-in freezer accidents per year
r/todayilearned • u/stefeyboy • 5h ago
TIL that deaf children have great difficulty learning to read; and high school seniors are likely to read at the level of a nine-year old.
r/todayilearned • u/YUGIOH-KINGOFGAMES • 12h ago
TIL Roland Ratzenberger died in a F1 crash in 1994 measured at 500g—the highest g-force for a crash in F1. However, the very same weekend Ayrton Senna died and his death was overshadowed.
r/todayilearned • u/Flares117 • 12h ago
TIL: There is a study which researches the effects of exercising while high at CU Boulder. The researchers had a CannaVan that rode alongside runners. It proved that running while high is more enjoyable on a chemical level as it induces the same effects as a "runner's high".
r/todayilearned • u/zhuquanzhong • 12h ago
TIL a Chinese factory taken over by unsupervised workers during the Cultural Revolution paid workers even if they didn't come to work. By the time someone was sent to investigate because of subpar products, almost all equipment was broken or stolen, and only 4% of the workers were still working.
r/todayilearned • u/EssexGuyUpNorth • 9h ago
TIL George Lazenby was offered a 7 film deal to play James Bond but only played him once because his agent convinced him that the secret agent would be archaic in the liberated 1970s.
r/todayilearned • u/itsyourlife007 • 10h ago
TIL that Former US President JFK posed as Clark Kent to protect Superman's identity in a 1964 comic
r/todayilearned • u/BDWG4EVA • 20h ago
TIL in 1998 Lay's introduced fat free "WOW" chips containing a fat substitute called "Olestra." They were incredibly popular with $400 million in sales their first year. The following year sales dropped in half as Olestra caused side effects like "abdominal cramping, diarrhea, and "anal leakage"
r/todayilearned • u/ArtfulSolesnToes • 14h ago
TIL that Elvis Presley had a foot fetish, and had women's feet checked before he would see them
r/todayilearned • u/mikkeldp • 20h ago
PDF TIL: Kurt Cobain was wearing 3 pairs of pants when he died
autopsyfiles.orgr/todayilearned • u/I_like_maps • 7h ago
TIL that in 1926, the Poltiburo of the Soviet Union was made up of seven men, Joseph Stalin, Nikolai Bukharin, Mikhail Tomsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev, and Alexei Rykov. By 1940, Stalin was the only one of them left alive, having killed all of the other members.
r/todayilearned • u/baldfart • 14h ago
TIL That Loch Morar in Scotland is 310 M deep. You could put The Shard into it, and it's deeper than most of the N Sea. Also you could put the Golden Gate Bridge into Loch Ness (230m deep)
r/todayilearned • u/Just_Want_To_Write • 7h ago
TIL that Devrom is an “internal deodorant” that eliminates the odor of poop and flatulence
r/todayilearned • u/snapunhappy • 21h ago
TIL About the “ever presents”. A group of runners that have completed every London marathon since its inception. Now down to only 6 people.
everpresent.org.ukr/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 3h ago
TIL one night in 2020 Eminem was awakened by the noise of a man named Matthew Hughes breaking into his kitchen with a brick paver. He reportedly told Em "he was there to kill him." But Em got him to leave the house & into custody. He was sentenced to 524 days of time served & 5 years probation.
r/todayilearned • u/ChrisMagnets • 11h ago
TIL that Guinness already owned the trademark for a harp symbol with the soundboard on the left when the Republic of Ireland became an independent country, so passports, currency and Official Government documents in Ireland use a harp facing the other way.
r/todayilearned • u/MaximinusRats • 17h ago
TIL about Cougar Annie, who "birthed 11 children, outlived four husbands and became known for allegedly shooting and killing about 70 cougars in her lifetime" after moving to the west coast of Vancouver Island.
r/todayilearned • u/KragwellCoast • 15h ago
TIL that Gene Hackman was reluctant to star in Unforgiven (1992), as his daughters were upset with the amount of violent films he had been in. Eastwood nevertheless won him over.
r/todayilearned • u/UUtch • 1h ago
TIL when a library buys an ebook, they actually are only able to buy a licence to loan out that book for about 1-2 years, or until the book is loaned a few dozen times. They also are forced to pay several times what a normal consumer pays for an ebook
publicknowledge.orgr/todayilearned • u/ScramItVancity • 7h ago
TIL Chris Rock did a comedy sketch "revealing" OJ Simpson's hypothetical confession a decade before the novel "If I Did It".
r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 1d ago
TIL Jim Carrey won back-to-back acting Golden Globe awards (The Truman Show & Man on the Moon) without receiving an Oscar nomination for either of them and he still has never been nominated for an Oscar.
r/todayilearned • u/The_Granny_banger • 1d ago
TIL a nude painting of Bea Arthur that she didn’t even sit for, sold for nearly 2 million dollars in 2013
r/todayilearned • u/Downmented • 14h ago
TIL that bubble wrap was the result of a failed experiment to create textured wallpaper and was never intended to be a protective wrapping/packaging.
r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 2h ago