Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/temporalwanderer on 2025-07-02 19:18:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/nuttybudd on 2025-07-02 18:39:43+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2010, the Air Force Research Laboratory built the Condor Cluster, a supercomputer composed of 1,716 Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles. At the time, it was "about the 35th- or 36th-fastest computer in the world".

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/izzyusa on 2025-07-02 18:32:51+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/yooolka on 2025-07-02 18:32:18+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1462, Vlad the Impaler (Dracula) stopped an Ottoman invasion by creating a 3km “forest” of 20,000 impaled corpses, including soldiers, women, children, and even livestock. The stench was so overwhelming, the Ottomans turned back without a fight.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Jonathan_Peachum on 2025-07-02 17:23:50+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Dr. Sigmund Rascher, who conducted inhuman experiments on concentration camp inmates, was executed at the end of World War II...not for his war crimes, but on the direct orders of Heinrich Himmler, for "financial irregularities" and other actions which embarrassed Himmler.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/twoducksinatub on 2025-07-02 17:21:29+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CraftyFoxeYT on 2025-07-02 17:21:15+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Steam locomotives could replenish its water supply while in motion using track pans, long troughs filled with water and a retractable water scooper that would be lowered. The speed of the forward motion forces the water up the scoop pipes into the tanks or tender.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/radconrad on 2025-07-02 16:20:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/strangelove4564 on 2025-07-02 16:04:20+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2003 hepatitis from green onions sickened 650 in the Pittsburgh area who ate at Chi-Chi's, a Tex-Mex restaurant chain. Four died and 485 were hospitalized. It led to Chi-Chi's going out of business nationwide in 2004.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/the_dj_zig on 2025-07-02 15:45:35+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Arrchduke on 2025-07-02 14:57:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/haddock420 on 2025-07-02 14:51:03+00:00.

Original Title: TIL A tautological place name is a place name where different parts of the name have the same meaning, for example, "Lake Chad" (Lake Lake), "Mississippi River" (Big River River), "Sahara Desert" (Deserts Desert)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TheBarman8 on 2025-07-02 06:26:29+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the "Phantom of Heilbronn," a mysterious female serial killer suspect who baffled German police for years, until it turned out the DNA evidence was contaminated by factory workers making the cotton swabs used in forensic tests.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Romboteryx on 2025-07-02 09:07:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/LookAtThatBacon on 2025-07-02 09:53:47+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Columbo's signature catchphrase "Just one more thing" originated because a scene was too short, and the writers didn't want to retype the script on a typewriter, so they just had him return and add the line at the end as if he'd forgotten something.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DangerNoodle1993 on 2025-07-02 09:38:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ug_unb on 2025-07-02 09:26:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/HydrolicKrane on 2025-07-02 06:42:16+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/knit_on_my_face on 2025-07-02 08:16:00+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Turki bin Abdulaziz al-Jasser - a journalist that ran a twitter account for informing Saudi citizens about local corruption and human rights. He was publicly executed for these 'crimes' 3 weeks ago

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/apple_kicks on 2025-07-02 06:00:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Warcraft_Fan on 2025-07-02 05:07:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CeeArthur on 2025-07-02 04:17:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/jacknunn on 2025-07-02 03:47:38+00:00.

Original Title: TIL recording sound on magnetic wires was used before magnetic tapes in the early 1900s, and use of magnetic wires persisted into the 1960s for recorders designed for stealth use, including one with a microphone disguised as a wristwatch

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/licecrispies on 2025-07-02 01:55:27+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that actor Joe Spinell was hired to play a hitman in The Godfather and Francis Ford Coppola liked him so much that he hired him on as a day player for 6 months of shooting. He wound up being the second highest paid actor in the film after Marlon Brando

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/dumbfuck on 2025-07-02 01:33:32+00:00.

Original Title: TIL One of the few recorded deaths resulting from a professional tennis match was a line judge that got hit in the groin by a serve. It knocked him backward out of his chair, hitting his head on the court. After that, line judges were no longer allowed to sit during play