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TIL Sikh temples provide a free meal, a safe place, or a temporary shelter to anyone in need regardless of native language, sexual orientation, or religious beliefs

Submitted

10 mos ago

bytheonesourcetotodayilearned

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TIL When the Wii U failed miserably, the Nintendo CEO halved his own salary for half a year, instead of laying off his employees.

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned

12

TIL the FBI ran a sting operation using a fake company to offer bribes to members of Congress that resulted in seven convictions.

Submitted

a year ago

bysometimessobertotodayilearned

12

TIL a man deleted his open source Javascript package from npm in 2016 and inadvertently caused service disruptions across the internet as the eleven lines of code were a dependency of many major software projects

Submitted

a year ago

bytheonesourcetotodayilearned

17

TIL Romans would bury their dogs in tombs and engrave them with epitaphs to remember them by

Submitted

a year ago

bytheonesourcetotodayilearned

17

TIL lemons aren't naturally occuring. They are a cross between a bitter orange and a citron.

truthorfiction.com

Submitted

a year ago

bysometimessobertotodayilearned

18

TIL millennial dads are spending 3 times as much time with their kids than their dads spent with them

Submitted

a year ago

bytheonesourcetotodayilearned

25

TIL identical twins don't have identical fingerprints

sciencefocus.com

Submitted

a year ago

bypracticalmagictotodayilearned

23

TIL German chocolate was invented in texas

Submitted

a year ago

bypracticalmagictotodayilearned

19

TIL Scotland's national animal is the unicorn

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned

16

TIL the 9/11 rescue dogs started to become depressed when they weren't able to find any living people. Rescue workers had to fake being rescued to boost their morale.

Submitted

a year ago

bysometimessobertotodayilearned

14

TIL Russia has 11 timezones

hindustantimes.com

Submitted

a year ago

bysometimessobertotodayilearned

9

TIL hot water freezes faster than cold water

quantamagazine.org

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned

11

TIL about Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI's butler, who leaked confidential documents and letters of the papcy and Catholic church in hopes of exposing what he saw as corruption in the Vatican's business dealings.

Submitted

a year ago

bypracticalmagictotodayilearned

17

TIL the FBI has been struggling to hire hackers for years because applicants must not have used marijuana in the past three years.

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned

11

TIL that the Whitest Kids U Know sketch "It's Illegal to Say..." was involved in a Supreme Court case where the defendant posted an altered version of the controversial sketch's script with his wife's name being substituted in place of the President.

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned

15

TIL YuGiOh and Super Smash Bros tournaments had to introduce hygiene clauses to their rulebooks, where being dirty or smelling foul would result in a loss, due to so many players neglecting their personal hygiene.

theregister.com

Submitted

a year ago

bypracticalmagictotodayilearned

13

TIL a dog in 1908 would pushed people into the Seine to get treats for "rescuing" them

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned

15

TIL the Animal Planet show 'River Monsters' ended because host Jeremy Wade caught all of the large freshwater fish species on earth

distractify.com

Submitted

a year ago

bypracticalmagictotodayilearned

14

TIL the ingredient guanine that is in lipstick and makeup actually fish scales. These are used to give them a shimmering look.

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned

14

TIL the universe has an average colour called cosmic latte

sciencefocus.com

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned

8

TIL Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in the book "If I Ran the Zoo"

merriam-webster.com

Submitted

a year ago

bytheonesourcetotodayilearned

11

TIL that scientists were able to identify a song, Amelia's Song, as a genuine West African Mende funeral song that had been passed down orally over multiple centuries

Submitted

a year ago

bysometimessobertotodayilearned

18

TIL snails have teeth and a jaw to eat

Submitted

a year ago

bytheonesourcetotodayilearned

13

TIL Ancient Egyptians were the first to make candy in the world. It was made out of honey, nuts, and fruits to worship their gods.

candyhistory.net

Submitted

a year ago

bypracticalmagictotodayilearned

13

TIL the Eiffel Tower has to be repainted every seven to maintain its integrity due to being made of puddle iron

toureiffel.paris

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned

12

Five Lithuanian soldiers were considered missing during a graduation exam in 2020 due to believing the attempts to find them were part of the exam.

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned

11

TIL conservation-induced extinction is where attempting to save a critically endangered species directly cause the extinction of another

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned

11

TIL Koko the gorilla didn't actually learn ASL and it's widely disputed the she could actually communicate

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned

15

TIL people are more creative in the shower

Submitted

a year ago

byiareuniquetotodayilearned

18

TIL your brain starts to eat itself when it doesn't get enough sleep

sciencealert.com

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned

14

TIL Natalie Portman invented a simple method to demonstrate the enzymatic production of hydrogen from sugar and co-authored a scientific paper when she was a sophomore at Syosset High

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned

16

TIL Ancient Egyptians were the first recorded to use toothpaste. It was made from myrrh, oxen hooves, water, pumice, and eggshells.

Submitted

a year ago

bypracticalmagictotodayilearned

16

TIL there are pink freshwater dolphins that eat piranhas in the amazon

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned

17

TIL receiving mild electric shocks can help you be better at math up to six months later

theguardian.com

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned

11

TIL the Bumblebee Bat is the smallest mammal in the world

discovermagazine.com

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned

15

TIL Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt, 250 to 138

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned

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TIL Sharks detect nearby prey by using weak electrical fields generated by muscle contractions

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned

14

TIL a cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned

9

TIL the oldest known recipe is over 4,000 years old

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned

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TIL Smallpox wasn't the only disease unintentionally introduced to the Americas. There was also the ubonic plague, measles, mumps, chickenpox, influenza, cholera, diphtheria, typhus, malaria, leprosy, and yellow fever. Indigenous Americans had no immunity to any of these diseases.

Submitted

a year ago

byeldiscipulototodayilearned