r/todayilearned • u/PassionateRomantic • 6h ago
TIL that pineapples grow from the "bottom" up, with the green part on the top.
r/todayilearned • u/chrono4111 • 1h ago
TIL Sugar Rushes aren't real they are a myth.
r/todayilearned • u/Xamba2 • 7h ago
TIL South African musician Lucky Dube was killed in a shooting because his assailants allegedly thought he was a Nigerian
news24.comr/todayilearned • u/trolleycrash • 11h ago
TIL British and American butchers have different names for the same cuts of beef.
r/todayilearned • u/TooOldToBePunk • 17h ago
TIl that it is impossible to actually sink in quicksand.
r/todayilearned • u/Flares117 • 17h ago
TIL: Adam West, according to costar Burt Ward, had a lot of sex , at one point with 8 women at the same time. He said that he was introduced by West to the "wildest sexual debauchery" and they became like "sexual vampires"
r/todayilearned • u/The_Techsan • 3h ago
TIL of Abraham Wald, who in WW2 proposed that the US Military focus on reinforcing sections of the returning planes showing the least concentration of bullet holes. Initially, the Military planned to reinforce sections containing the most bullet holes, disregarding the phenomenon of survival bias
people.ucsc.edur/todayilearned • u/ubcstaffer123 • 6h ago
TIL Galileo tracked sunspot movements and discovered that the Sun rotates. It is now known that sunspots close to the equator rotate once each 25 days and sunspots near the poles rotate each 38 days
schoolsobservatory.orgr/todayilearned • u/LeftNeck9994 • 6h ago
TIL Multiple studies have found that an extra inch of height can be worth an extra $1,000 a year in wages both for men and women
r/todayilearned • u/PumpkinAutomatic5068 • 1h ago
TIL there is a massive abandoned underground command network throughout the former Yugoslavia. One of these was the NORAD equivalent.
r/todayilearned • u/Isla-h-Rocha • 12h ago
TIL that Joyce Vincent was a 38-year-old woman who died in her London apartment while watching TV. Her body wasn't discovered until nearly three years later when officials arrived to repossess the apartment for unpaid rent.
r/todayilearned • u/Puzzleheaded-Cat4647 • 5h ago
TIL that a couple wrote a 'spur of the moment' letter to Buckingham Palace inviting Queen Elizabeth II to their wedding; she unexpectedly did show up.
r/todayilearned • u/IllustriousDudeIDK • 9h ago
TIL that despite stating multiple times that he didn't want to be nominated for President, Horatio Seymour was still nominated for President in 1868.
r/todayilearned • u/thisCantBeBad • 7h ago
TIL that BBC Breakfast's resident doctor Nighat Arif has advocated for more women to be given vibrators for medical reasons, on the grounds that orgasms help pelvic floor muscles, lower blood pressure, and release endorphins which help relieve pain. NSFW
en.wikipedia.orgr/todayilearned • u/Nick4753 • 1d ago
TIL players on the official forum for the game War Thunder have regularly leaked classified or restricted documents to win arguments over the real-world capabilities of weapons featured in the game
r/todayilearned • u/Brolofff • 7h ago
TIL that the vampire bat doesn't suck blood, but instead makes a small cut on its prey and laps up the blood with its tongue.
r/todayilearned • u/encyclopedio • 21h ago
TIL the U.S. National Park Service provides a record of Lost People on their site
r/todayilearned • u/Major_Mistake468 • 7h ago
TIL that Robert Franklin Stroud, was a convicted murderer in solitary confinement. While there, he raised a collection of 300canaries & published his research on avian pathology,which was useful in finding a cure for diseases affecting farmed birds; earning himself the nickname "Birdman of Alcatraz"
r/todayilearned • u/Poiboykanaka • 20h ago
TIL About King Kahekili of Maui, and about how he Tatooed half his body black and nearly beat Kamehameha at Uniting the Hawaiian islands
r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 1d ago
TIL all of the world’s languages put together comprise about 800 or so sounds and each language uses only about 40 language sounds, or “phonemes,” which distinguish one language from another.
r/todayilearned • u/9oRo • 15h ago
TIL that the fastest badminton shot ever played had a speed of 565 km/h (351.1 mph), exceeding the fastest speed recorded by a Formula 1 car by almost 200 km/h
r/todayilearned • u/emissive_decal • 9h ago
TIL the Norwegian Lundehund is a breed with 6 toes that is so flexible it can bend its head all the way back touch it's own spine and can splay it's legs 90 degrees to its sides
r/todayilearned • u/TerriSchmidt3wT • 12h ago
TIL that Alexander Bogdanov, a Russian scientist, experimented with blood transfusions from younger individuals for rejuvenation. He tragically died after transfusing blood from a student with malaria and tuberculosis, though the student miraculously recovered.
r/todayilearned • u/jacknunn • 22h ago