Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Kamikaze-X on 2025-06-24 23:25:30+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NiceTraining7671 on 2025-06-24 23:06:57+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that ‘Gone With the Wind’ was the only novel by Margaret Mitchell that was published in her lifetime. She wrote a novella which wasn’t published until four decades after her death, a novelette which was rejected by publishers and a novel which is now considered lost.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/adiplotti on 2025-06-24 22:56:53+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/bryson1995 on 2025-06-24 22:05:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/mikechi2501 on 2025-06-24 21:30:59+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MrMiracle27 on 2025-06-24 21:23:56+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Galapagos tortoises have been known to kill the finches that groom them for parasites. The tortoise will suddenly retract its limbs to lay flat, and purposely fall on the bird, killing it and consuming it for protein.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/logicalconflict on 2025-06-24 21:11:31+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 1975 the Hōkūleʻa, a modern but performance-accurate Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe, sailed from Hawaiʻi to Tahiti using only ancient Polynesian wayfinding techniques (non-instrument navigation), likely saving those techniques from extinction.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/oceanicplatform on 2025-06-24 21:09:29+00:00.

Original Title: TIL deep penetrating "earthquake bombs", made of almost 50% high-tensile steel, were invented by Barnes Wallis, the British inventor of the bouncing bomb used by the Dambusters in WW2. The 22,000lb / 10,000kg Grand Slam was the largest non-nuclear bomb used in WW2.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/RecetaDeAlprazolam on 2025-06-24 20:43:58+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the muscle relaxant Carisoprodol (Soma) was taken off the markets in Europe in 2008 for risk of causing intoxication (affecting mental state) and psychomotor impairment (unusual thoughts and difficulty co-ordinating movements).

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DangerNoodle1993 on 2025-06-24 20:37:54+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that The Simpsons Movie was banned in Myanmar because the ruling junta had prohibited the colours red and yellow from appearing in any imported films. The colours were associated with the flag of the National League for Democracy, a rebel group pushing for democracy.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/dumbfuck on 2025-06-24 19:55:12+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SteO153 on 2025-06-24 20:06:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Vegetable-Orange-965 on 2025-06-24 19:41:11+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that there is a strategy for winning competitive debates called “spreading”, which involves making as many arguments as possible within a short time so that the opponent is unable to respond to them all. The technique has been described as unfair and as “sounding like a cattle auctioneer”.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CatPooedInMyShoe on 2025-06-24 18:44:57+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that after the city of Tbilisi flooded in 2015, numerous animals including big cats, wolves, bears, hyenas and a hippo escaped the Tbilisi Zoo and had to be rounded up by police. An African penguin made it all the way to the border of Azerbaijan.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/dooodaaad on 2025-06-24 18:24:48+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2009 a Maryland wastewater treatment plant was found to be inhabited by over 100,000,000 orb-weaving spiders, the largest recorded aggregation in history. The entire facility was covered in dense sheets and volumes of webbing, leading to it being nicknamed it the "Back River Arachnotopia".

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Double-decker_trams on 2025-06-24 17:30:46+00:00.

Original Title: TIL when the Luxembourgish runner Josy Barthel unexpectedly won gold in the 1500 metres in the 1952 Helsinki Olympic games, the band improvised a tune since they didn't have the sheet music for the anthem of Luxembourg

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/waitingforthesun92 on 2025-06-24 17:28:29+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the 23 year reign of Emperor Antoninus Pius is considered the most peaceful in the history of the Roman Empire. There’s no record of Antoninus leading any military action, and it’s likely he likely never saw or commanded a Roman army or came within 500 miles of a legion during his reign.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/minerman30 on 2025-06-24 16:06:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DangerNoodle1993 on 2025-06-24 09:54:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/jamielandon on 2025-06-24 04:46:11+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/racc15 on 2025-06-24 16:05:52+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/stinkyfartpoopoo on 2025-06-24 15:22:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/9tailNate on 2025-06-24 12:33:05+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/PodfatherIII on 2025-06-24 13:44:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Particular_Cut_198 on 2025-06-24 13:28:21+00:00.