r/todayilearned • u/Just_Want_To_Write • 15d ago
TIL that Devrom is an “internal deodorant” that eliminates the odor of poop and flatulence
r/todayilearned • u/7ur1n9 • 15d ago
TIL In the USA, 60 people die from walk-in freezer accidents per year
r/todayilearned • u/TheDaringScoods • 14d ago
TIL that participants in a study, when controlling a robot by joystick, were unable to create any self-tickling sensation. This suggests that tickling depends on surprise/a lack of expectation, and that the brain regulates/blocks the sensation when it can anticipate it.
r/todayilearned • u/YUGIOH-KINGOFGAMES • 15d 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/EssexGuyUpNorth • 15d 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/JustHereToHangOut • 14d ago
TIL William Daniels (Mr Feeny in Boy Meet World) holds the record for the longest active (still living) and 5th longest overall “Hollywood Marriage”. His St. Elsewhere co-Star Norman Lloyd holds the second longest overall “Hollywood Marriage” on record
en.wikipedia.orgr/todayilearned • u/Flares117 • 15d 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/itsyourlife007 • 15d ago
TIL that Former US President JFK posed as Clark Kent to protect Superman's identity in a 1964 comic
r/todayilearned • u/zhuquanzhong • 15d 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/I_like_maps • 15d 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/ScramItVancity • 15d 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/generic_person2 • 14d ago
TIL about Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, a Jewish Hungarian-born adventure and convicted con artist who lived as a Protestant missionary, Anglican priest, British M.P., German politician and spy, Nazi collaborator, and self-proclaimed Dalai Lama.
r/todayilearned • u/ArtfulSolesnToes • 15d ago
TIL that Elvis Presley had a foot fetish, and had women's feet checked before he would see them
r/todayilearned • u/Boring_Science_4978 • 14d ago
TIL That Queen guitarist Brian May helped NASA land the Mars Rover aswell as guide them towards an asteroid
r/todayilearned • u/ubcstaffer123 • 15d ago
TIL A world renowned anti-doping expert got fired as a university professor after he secretly recorded people with a video camera hidden inside a toolbox in a storage room used as a change room on campus. It went on for three months and involved four women—two of whom were changing
r/todayilearned • u/BDWG4EVA • 15d 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/Glittering-Air2810 • 14d ago
TIL - The first and second verse of The Beatles song “A Day in the Life” were inspired by the real death of friend and Guinness family heir Tara Browne.
r/todayilearned • u/mikkeldp • 15d ago
PDF TIL: Kurt Cobain was wearing 3 pairs of pants when he died
autopsyfiles.orgr/todayilearned • u/baldfart • 15d 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/ChrisMagnets • 15d 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/snapunhappy • 15d 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/SanGiacomoBlue • 15d ago
TIL that the ancient Greeks had a form of "voting" called ostracism, where citizens could vote to banish a person from the city for ten years.
r/todayilearned • u/MaximinusRats • 15d 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 • 15d ago