Today I Learned (TIL)

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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

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/the_dj_zig on 2025-07-02 01:32:09+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that, immediately after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, an order came down from the Secretary of the Navy to destroy all personal logs associated with the use of the presidential yacht USS Sequoia during the Kennedy Administration.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Smaptimania on 2025-07-02 01:18:02+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DangerNoodle1993 on 2025-07-01 23:30:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DeScepter on 2025-07-01 23:20:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/efthfj on 2025-07-01 22:59:02+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in his 1933 novel, The Shape of Things to Come, acclaimed science fiction writer H.G. Wells predicted a second world war would begin in January 1940—just four months off from the actual start on September 1, 1939.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/aprettyp on 2025-07-01 22:48:29+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GOpencyprep on 2025-07-01 22:30:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ill_Definition8074 on 2025-07-01 22:28:45+00:00.

Original Title: TIL In 1907, Grace Oakeshott, a British women's rights activist, faked her death to run off with her extramarital lover. It seems her husband was in on the plan, as both found it preferable to a divorce. Grace and her lover moved to New Zealand where they had 3 children before Grace's death in 1929.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/temujin94 on 2025-07-01 21:28:05+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/XyleneCobalt on 2025-07-01 19:40:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ClandesTyne on 2025-07-01 19:23:32+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Beatrice Muller, a New Jersey widow who became a permanet resident of the Cunard ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2. When her husband retired the pair went on the ship's world cruise every year until he died on board in 1999. From 2000 she lived permanently on the ship until it was retired in 2008

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/gonejahman on 2025-07-01 19:20:53+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense, died in obscurity, was dug up by an admirer, shipped to England, then sold with a bankrupt man's house. His remains vanished and may have been turned into souvenirs.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TitaniumArse on 2025-07-01 19:11:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/biebrforro on 2025-07-01 18:16:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/1039smoothielumps on 2025-07-01 17:12:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/zyl1024 on 2025-07-01 17:00:52+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Pixearl on 2025-07-01 13:38:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Mcleod129 on 2025-07-01 07:23:36+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MajesticBread9147 on 2025-07-01 12:44:56+00:00.

Original Title: TIL after being signed to a record label at the age of 12, Aaliyah's uncle introduced her to R. Kelly who ended up being lead songwriter and producer of her debut album; Age Ain't Nothing but a Number

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BlakeBurna on 2025-07-01 12:32:53+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/RedditIsAGranfaloon on 2025-07-01 11:42:50+00:00.