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TIL that Magnus Carlsen’s first passion as a child wasn’t chess, but memorisation. By the age of five he knew every country’s flag, capital, and population, and...

en.wikipedia.org·27w·r/todayilearned

TIL that all humans are 99.9% genetically identical — all our visible and cultural differences come from just 0.1% of our DNA.

genome.gov·27w·r/todayilearned

TIL that after Rome declared war on Carthage (3rd Punic War), the Carthaginians attempted to appease them and sent an embassy to negotiate. Rome demanded that t...

en.wikipedia.org·27w·r/todayilearned

TIL in 2023 a man placed a $100 Parlay Bet worth up to $1.7m that: The Rangers win the World Series, Chiefs win the Superbowl, and OKC Thunder win the NBA champ...

espn.com·27w·r/todayilearned

TIL that in 2019, Fender Guitars conducted a study and found that 90% of new guitar players abandoned playing within the first year. The 10% that don't quit end...

musicradar.com·27w·r/todayilearned

TIL that Rugrats had a newspaper comic strip from 1998 to 2003. It was so unpopular that readers of the Washington Post voted it the “worst comic strip.”

en.wikipedia.org·27w·r/todayilearned

TIL The wildfire that appeared during the series finale of M*A*S*H, “Goodbye, Farewell, And Amen,” was actually a real California wildfire that burned down the ...

slashfilm.com·27w·r/todayilearned

TIL that Lio Tipton escaped from being trafficked and sold to a Saudi Arabian prince when first starting off in a modeling career.

en.wikipedia.org·27w·r/todayilearned

TIL about Model Collapse. When an AI learns from other AI generated content, errors can accumulate, like making a photocopy of a photocopy over and over again.

ibm.com·27w·r/todayilearned

TIL that for 30 years Garfield-shaped novelty phones kept washing up on beaches in Brittany, France — and the source was finally found to be a broken shipping c...

sfgate.com·27w·Hacker News, r/todayilearned

TIL that Carl Sagan’s team wanted to include Here Comes The Sun by the Beatles on the Voyager Golden Records that were intended to portray the diversity of huma...

en.wikipedia.org·27w·r/todayilearned

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reddit.com·907w·r/todayilearned

TIL that the Onion Johnny, the stereotypical image of a Frenchman wearing a striped shirt, beret, and a necklace of onions, stems from Breton fishermen and farm...

en.wikipedia.org·27w·r/todayilearned

TIL about the MS Satoshi, a cruise ship which was bought by "cryptocurrency enthusiasts", who planned to turn it into a floating city. The plan failed because, ...

theguardian.com·27w·Hacker News, r/todayilearned

TIL there is a “Gospel of Judas” not found in the Bible that speaks of Judas as the only one of Jesus’ disciples who fully understood His teachings. He turned J...

en.wikipedia.org·27w·r/todayilearned

r/todayilearned - TIL That Mark Hunt, a West Virginia attorney, secretly funded a human cloning lab in hopes of replicating his deceased infant son, Andrew, usi...

abcnews.go.com·907w

TIL that after qualifying for the 5000m Olympic trials in 1928, black athlete Dolphus Stroud had to make his way to Boston on his own. He walked, ran, and hitch...

en.wikipedia.org·27w·r/todayilearned

TIL that a computer glitch caused a supermarket to open its doors early without any staff present. 24 people entered, half of them immediately walked out with "...

smh.com.au·27w·r/todayilearned

TIL George Lucas gave NPR the rights to make a radio dramatization of the Original Star Wars Trilogy for a total of $3. Although some actors like Mark Hamil ret...

en.wikipedia.org·27w·r/todayilearned

TIL a group of rats were put on trial in 16th century France for destroying barley crops. Their lawyer, Barthélemy de Chasseneuz, successfully defended them.

en.wikipedia.org·27w·r/todayilearned

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