9.1kscore560commentsr/todayilearned·u/Sebastianlim·3h·abcnews.comTIL that in 2016, a Chinese artist spent 3 days building a $15,000 LEGO statue or Nick Wilde from Zootopia. Shortly after it was put on display, a 4-year-old boy accidentally knocked it over, destroying it. The artist refused an offer of compensation from the parents.560 commentsabcnews.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1x60fq2
10kscore254commentsr/todayilearned·u/TooKreamy4U·11h·irishamerica.comTIL In 2012, an Irish mother delivered her first twin prematurely, and her contractions stopped. This allowed the second twin to stay safely inside the womb for another 87 days. This rare occurrence is known as a delayed-interval delivery. It broke the previous world record of 84 days.254 commentsirishamerica.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1x5of7q
1.3kscore197commentsr/todayilearned·u/ansyhrrian·1h·youtube.comTIL that in 2010, UCF professor Richard Quinn uncovered a massive cheating scandal by analyzing statistical anomalies in exam scores, prompting 205 students to come forward and forcing all 600 to retake the exam.197 commentsyoutube.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1x62s35
1.6kscore74commentsr/todayilearned·u/AetheriaNox·3h·en.wikipedia.orgTIL in 2016, a sweet shop owner in Pakistan confessed to mixing a highly toxic pesticide into the sweets after an argument with his brother and co-owner. From 20 April to 8 May 2016, at least 33 people, including five children, died from the purposely poisoned baked confection.74 commentsen.wikipedia.org/r/todayilearned/comments/1x6085x
2.2kscore61commentsr/todayilearned·u/ComfortableGreySloth·6h·en.wikipedia.orgTIL about heraldic hatching, a historical method of representing color without color.61 commentsen.wikipedia.org/r/todayilearned/comments/1x5vf6n
1.2kscore170commentsr/todayilearned·u/HolyCowAnyOldAccName·3h·skyatnightmagazine.comTIL you could fit every planet in the Solar System between Earth and the Moon170 commentsskyatnightmagazine.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1x60273
2kscore98commentsr/todayilearned·u/MembershipHuman4837·6h·en.wikipedia.orgTIL that Lou Hoover - Henry Hoover's wife - had a tradition of leaving one chair empty whenever she entertained company, as a reminder of ongoing child poverty.Herbert Hoover98 commentsen.wikipedia.org/r/todayilearned/comments/1x5vqz7
5.1kscore270commentsr/todayilearned·u/obalovatyk·11h·simpleflying.comTIL Up until 1981 Boeing used depleted uranium as counter weights in parts of their 747’s270 commentssimpleflying.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1x5odn8
15kscore388commentsr/todayilearned·u/mvincen95·17h·en.wikipedia.orgTIL that despite their name, it is biologically impossible for a centipede to be born with exactly 100 legs because a genetic quirk dictates they always have an odd number of leg pairs.388 commentsen.wikipedia.org/r/todayilearned/comments/1x5irq0
991score20commentsr/todayilearned·u/bastugubbar·5h·en.wikipedia.orgTIL Albert Einstein, besides his work as a physicist and mathematician was also a Fridge engineer. Together with a former student Leo Szilard he helped invent several new technologies in refrigeration and jointly held 45 patents, including a design for a fridge with no moving parts.20 commentsen.wikipedia.org/r/todayilearned/comments/1x5x9ya
760score145commentsr/todayilearned·u/NetflixSux247·3h·en.wikipedia.orgTIL the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie pitch was to have starred comedians Sam Kinison, Gallagher, Bobcat Goldthwait and Billy Crystal in green make-up as the turtles.145 commentsen.wikipedia.org/r/todayilearned/comments/1x5zenu
693score91commentsr/todayilearned·u/AetheriaNox·5h·guinnessworldrecords.comTIL the longest-standing record chronicled in The Guinness Book of Records belongs to the monk, St Simeon the Stylite (c. AD 386–459), who spent approximately 39 years on a stone pillar in Syria. His purpose was self-persecution for people's sins, and to be nearer God.91 commentsguinnessworldrecords.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1x5wk0s
921score64commentsr/todayilearned·u/Citrus2015·8h·en.wikipedia.orgTIL: Eumenes of Cardia who went from being Alexander the Great's secretary to defeating one of Alexander's greatest generals in his first major battle64 commentsen.wikipedia.org/r/todayilearned/comments/1x5sm7b
220score51commentsr/todayilearned·u/CyberpunkSunrise·39m·en.wikipedia.orgTIL that the 2011 dark/action comedy film “30 Minutes or Less” mirrors a real-life event where a pizza delivery driver was forced to wear a bomb collar and rob a bank, ultimately dying when the bomb detonated, though the filmmakers denied knowledge of the real-life story.51 commentsen.wikipedia.org/r/todayilearned/comments/1x64c4f
7.2kscore790commentsr/todayilearned·u/Sebastianlim·19h·my.clevelandclinic.orgTIL about Cryptic Pregnancies, which is when a pregnancy shows little to no symptoms to the point that the woman can be unaware that she is pregnant until she is in labor in some cases.790 commentsmy.clevelandclinic.org/r/todayilearned/comments/1x5g9r6
577score25commentsr/todayilearned·u/licecrispies·8h·aonojournal.comTIL that earthquakes can trigger outbreaks of lasting vertigo in humans, which is known as Post-Earthquake Dizziness Syndrome25 commentsaonojournal.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1x5s38g
257score30commentsr/todayilearned·u/Finnish_Swede·5h·en.wikipedia.orgTIL that King Charles III’s paternal grandfather, Prince Andrew of Greece, was a Major General in the Greco-Turkish War and got court-martialed and exiled after being blamed for losing the important Battle of the Sakarya which caused the Greek defeat in the war.30 commentsen.wikipedia.org/r/todayilearned/comments/1x5x4u9
324score15commentsr/todayilearned·u/Impressive-Mix5605·7h·pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govTIL that in 1814, British naturalist James Sowerby made a sword from meteoritic iron as a gift for Russian Emperor Alexander I.15 commentspmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/r/todayilearned/comments/1x5t69x
15kscore931commentsr/todayilearned·u/dr--moreau·1d·greenfi.comTIL chewing gum is not biodegradable because it is made from synthetic polymers and plastics931 commentsgreenfi.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1x57hk9
934score10commentsr/todayilearned·u/proof_required·13h·en.wikipedia.orgTIL the Austrian Empire tried to colonize islands near India in 1778 with basically 5-6 people. Things didn't go particularly well. The colonists struggled with food and water shortages, their leader Gottfried Stahl died in 1783, and the survivors eventually abandoned the settlement.10 commentsen.wikipedia.org/r/todayilearned/comments/1x5m2qo
4.5kscore92commentsr/todayilearned·u/mvincen95·1d·en.wikipedia.orgTIL that there is no record of the death of 12 Years a Slave (1853) author, Solomon Northup. There is only one account of him alive after 1857, leading to speculation he was enslaved again. Historians believe he most likely died in 1863 or 1864.92 commentsen.wikipedia.org/r/todayilearned/comments/1x59cd3
87score5commentsr/todayilearned·u/HowDareYou888·4h·en.wikipedia.orgTIL that during the 1870–71 siege of Paris, homing pigeons were taken out of the city by balloon and returned carrying messages on microfilm. The messages were then projected onto a screen so clerks could transcribe them.5 commentsen.wikipedia.org/r/todayilearned/comments/1x5yo3g
2.8kscore43commentsr/todayilearned·u/johnsmithoncemore·23h·en.wikipedia.orgTIL that the actor Hervé Villechaize, most famous for staring as Tattoo on the TV series Fantasy Island was an accomplished painter. At age 16, he entered he entered the École des Beaux-Art and by 1961, at age 18, he became the youngest artist ever to have his work displayed in the Museum of Paris.43 commentsen.wikipedia.org/r/todayilearned/comments/1x5byzc
1.6kscore134commentsr/todayilearned·u/ManagerGames·20h·britannica.comTIL that 28 people have gone the moon and only 12 of them walked on it134 commentsbritannica.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1x5f44i
1.6kscore63commentsr/todayilearned·u/Isgrimnur·21h·ama-assn.orgTIL that (US) generic drug names aren't created by their manufacturers, they're assigned by the United States Adopted Names (USAN) Council63 commentsama-assn.org/r/todayilearned/comments/1x5e9ca
