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r/todayilearned - TIL: Garbology is a field of study

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TIL rolling your tongue like a taco is NOT a genetic trait

pbs.org·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL that in Macau, the only city in China where casino gambling is legal, the game of baccarat is so incredibly popular that the tax levied on baccarat play is ...

en.wikipedia.org·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL that contrary to popular belief, few limb amputations during the American Civil War were done without anaesthesia. A post-war review found that 99.6% of sur...

en.wikipedia.org·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL in 2009, a student, Teunis Tenbrook, won a ten-year legal battle after his ban from Erasmus University. The ban occurred after staff and students complained...

digitalspy.com·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL about the "lesbian vampire" archetype, which was used in the 19th-century gothic horror genre to circumvent the heavy censorship of lesbian characters

en.wikipedia.org·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL that in order for Mia Farrow to legally adopt Soon-Yi Previn (now Woody Allen's wife) from a Korean orphanage, a one-off bill for the adoption was passed by...

congress.gov·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL a woman had half of her brain removed when she was 8 due to a condition that caused her to have up to 150 seizures a day. Her doctors said she'd never drive...

huffpost.com·33w·r/todayilearned

TIL "knee" and "knight" used to be pronounced "k-nee" and "k-night"

en.wikipedia.org·33w·r/todayilearned

TIL that the samurai tried to actully start a colony in sanfransico California but it failed due to drought and other samurai refusing to migrate there with the...

trafalgar.com·33w·r/todayilearned

TIL that the comedian who played the count on Takeshi’s Castle (MXC) in the 80’s went on to become one of the most critically acclaimed writers and directors in...

en.wikipedia.org·33w·r/todayilearned

TIL that some cultures have multiple "bless you" type responses to sneezing, depending how many times you sneeze

en.wikipedia.org·33w·r/todayilearned

TIL in AD 80, a Roman soldier mooned a crowd of Jewish pilgrims at the temple in Jerusalem and hurled insults at them. Some children there threw stones at the s...

en.wikipedia.org·33w·r/todayilearned

TIL that cremated human remains aren’t actually ashes. After incineration, the leftover bone fragments are ground down in a machine called a cremulator to produ...

en.wikipedia.org·33w·r/todayilearned

TIL that during the Sylvester Stallone & Arnold Schwarzenegger rivalry in the 1980s, Schwarzenegger once tricked Stallone into doing the critically panned 1992 ...

en.wikipedia.org·33w·r/todayilearned

TIL In 1814, a massive vat at a London Brewery suddenly burst, sending 300,000 gallons of bear surging through the streets in a devastating flood. The torrent d...

historic-uk.com·33w·r/todayilearned

TIL The U.S. has more lawyers per capita than any other country, yet 92% of low-income Americans get no legal help when they need it.

justicegap.lsc.gov·33w·r/todayilearned

TIL whales can swallow birds in the middle of feeding, but since whales can’t digest the bird, they poop them out whole. Scientists call these bird bricks.

mersociety.org·33w·r/todayilearned

TIL: The modern Japanese Akita dogs are descended from a handful of dogs that survived World War II

akitas.org·33w·r/todayilearned

TIL China has a 26-storey skyscraper pig farm

rova.nz·33w·r/todayilearned

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