Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-06-30 16:13:31+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2017 researchers hoping to study how various scavengers disrupt human remains set up a camera trap fully expecting to only see images of foxes, raccoons, coyotes, & various birds. However, they ended up capturing the first known photographic evidence of a deer gnawing on human remains.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/holyfruits on 2025-06-30 15:41:31+00:00.

Original Title: TIL "It Wasn't Me" by Shaggy was one of Michael Jackson's favorite songs. When he met Shaggy, he told him it sounded like a song he would write, which prompted Shaggy to quip, "So you be bangin', huh?"

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/depho123 on 2025-06-30 13:52:28+00:00.

Original Title: TIL: A hip hop group named "the Coup" planned to release an album named "Party Music" in September 2001 with the following cover, which was created in June 2001. Due to the September 11 attacks, the album was postponed until November 2001 to create a new cover.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/johntwit on 2025-06-30 13:22:14+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the 100th bomber group was so wild and undisciplined, that during a 1943 training flight from Kearney Field in Nebraska to Hamilton Field in California, 3 B-17s landed in Las Vegas and one pilot flew his B-17 to Tennessee to visit his wife! Their commander was subsequently fired.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Srihari_stan on 2025-06-30 13:12:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/obamasmole on 2025-06-30 12:23:04+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the first widely sold car rearview mirror wasn't a safety device. Instead, the 'Cop-Spotter' was intended to help you avoid the police. After the product launched in 1921, mirrors in cars grew increasingly popular, eventually being recognised as an essential safety feature.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-06-30 12:46:52+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-06-30 12:27:10+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/diacewrb on 2025-06-30 11:35:16+00:00.

Original Title: TIL: In 1989, during Operation Just Cause, the U.S. military surrounded the Apostolic Nunciature in Panama while trying to capture Manuel Noriega. U.S. forces blasted loud rock music—including "I Fought the Law" by the Clash—to put pressure on Noriega to give himself up

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/voidfurr on 2025-06-30 11:21:19+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Flubadubadubadub on 2025-06-30 09:36:45+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NapalmBurns on 2025-06-30 07:35:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Vegetable-Orange-965 on 2025-06-30 05:37:15+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Ingush women traditionally wear a high cap called a kurkhars, whose shape is derived from the Phrygian cap of antiquity. Originally, these headdresses were made from tanned and dyed bull scrotum.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CatharticEcstasy on 2025-06-30 01:46:53+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DangerNoodle1993 on 2025-06-30 06:50:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/pengweather on 2025-06-30 05:51:24+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Geneva Steel paid bonuses to its workers with $2 bills, which then started to show up across many local businesses. This was done to show the importance of Geneva Steel to the local economy.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SnooPies5837 on 2025-06-30 05:00:34+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ToKeepAndToHoldForev on 2025-06-30 03:06:45+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/audiologydoctor on 2025-06-30 03:03:35+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Giff95 on 2025-06-30 02:02:19+00:00.

Original Title: TIL New York City used eminent domain to tear down a landlord's building but accidentally left his family with a small triangle of land. The city asked the family to donate the land, but the family instead made a small plaque to commemorate the tiny chunk of land they still owned, the Hess Triangle.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/jarredmars1 on 2025-06-30 01:43:18+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Venus is further from the sun than Mercury but it is the hottest planet in the solar system. The high temperature is due to a runaway greenhouse effect caused by its dense atmosphere, which is primarily composed of carbon dioxide.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/jon-in-tha-hood on 2025-06-30 00:47:58+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that even though spittoons became far less common in the modern era, every justice in the US Supreme Court is provided with a personal spittoon, though the last time a spittoon was recorded as being used as intended was in the early 20th century.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Careful-Cap-644 on 2025-06-30 00:00:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TylerFortier_Photo on 2025-06-29 18:07:24+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2018 a New York police officer was driving to work when she saw a boy jump 30 feet off of an overpass — she then made the same jump to save his life. "I just knew, when I looked down and saw him… he looked dead... I thought to myself, ‘He needs help. I need to help him.’"

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/mryazzy on 2025-06-29 23:55:15+00:00.