Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AutisticWorkaholic on 2025-06-26 13:02:19+00:00.

Original Title: TIL oscar-nominated 2021 movie 'Don't Look Up' allegedly ripped off a self-published novel 'Stanley's Comet' by William Collier. The novel has almost the exact same plot and even uses the phrase "Don't look" in a similar way. However, in 2024 the copyright lawsuit was dismissed

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/bawlhie62a2 on 2025-06-26 12:54:32+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the Smurfs’ creator, Peyo, was so upset that his characters appeared in an anti-drug special, Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, without his permission that he refused to work with Hanna-Barbera ever again. This ultimately cancelled the TV series.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 on 2025-06-26 10:24:39+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the earliest version of the Pied Piper story makes no mention of rats - only that, on 26 June 1284, a piper led 130 children out of Hamelin, never to return. Music and dancing remain banned on Bungelosenstrasse, the “street without drums” where they were last seen.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/bhlogan2 on 2025-06-26 10:54:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-06-26 09:59:21+00:00.

Original Title: TIL after a woman put $40 into a lottery vending machine with the intention of buying multiple cheaper tickets, "some rude person" bumped into her & caused her to accidentally select a $30 ticket. She was annoyed until she started scratching that ticket & realized she'd won the $10 million jackpot.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/LookAtThatBacon on 2025-06-26 09:44:59+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Null Island, the location at zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude (0°N 0°E), i.e. where the prime meridian and the equator intersect. Since there is no landmass located at these coordinates, it is not an actual island.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BadenBaden1981 on 2025-06-26 09:07:59+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Danny Boyle, director of 28 Days Later and Slumdog Millionaire, declined knighthood for directing London Olympic opening ceremony. Proclaming he is proud equel citizen and that's what ceremony was about.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GuidanceFun9198 on 2025-06-26 05:50:33+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GuidanceFun9198 on 2025-06-26 05:42:28+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/deedsnance on 2025-06-26 05:28:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/THEREALOFFICALCAFE on 2025-06-26 04:56:52+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Giff95 on 2025-06-26 02:47:15+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the largest fish ever caught, according to the International Game Fish Association, is a great white shark weighing 2,664 pounds (1,208 kg). It was caught by Alfred Dean off the coast of Ceduna, Australia, in 1959.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/dumbfuck on 2025-06-26 02:59:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Flurb4 on 2025-06-26 02:49:56+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Ford's Theatre -- site of Abraham Lincoln's assassination -- was afterward converted into an office building. In 1893, three floors collapsed killing 22 clerks and injuring 68 more. It was restored as a theatre in 1968.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/lemelisk42 on 2025-06-26 02:21:19+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Ireland's population peaked in the census of 1841 with over 8 million people. It never recovered from the long lasting effects of the potato famine. Was at 4 million for half a century. Today, it's at 7.2 million, having not fully recovered almost 2 centuries post famine

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/adiplotti on 2025-06-26 01:44:07+00:00.

Original Title: TIL during World War I, Italian Ildebrando Zacchini proposed used spring-loaded cannons to shoot entire soldiers at the enemy. The soldiers would parachute down after being fired into the air. After the Italian government turned down Zacchini's pitch, he developed it into a human cannonball act.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sinnafyle on 2025-06-25 23:10:23+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that The Office line about "that sportscaster Marv Something, that bit that lady" refers to Marv Albert known as "the voice of basketball". He was fired from NBC in 1997 for pleading guilty to assaulting and biting more than 1 woman.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Dependent-Loss-4080 on 2025-06-25 22:38:59+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DrCatholicGuilt on 2025-06-25 22:39:23+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Holiday_Document4592 on 2025-06-25 22:36:30+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/exophades on 2025-06-25 22:17:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JiveChicken00 on 2025-06-25 21:30:29+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/karma_trained on 2025-06-25 20:54:53+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/a7xfan01 on 2025-06-25 20:50:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Lughnasadh32 on 2025-06-25 20:42:47+00:00.