Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/greenknight884 on 2025-06-24 04:13:31+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/bryson1995 on 2025-06-24 03:07:34+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WavesAndSaves on 2025-06-24 02:41:18+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in its original run, The Jetsons only aired 24 episodes across a span of six months from 1962-1963, before being cancelled due to low ratings. Reruns got such high viewership over the years that in 1985, 51 more episodes were produced.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WheatTrampler on 2025-06-24 02:25:33+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that many U.S. states secretly obtain the drugs used in lethal injections from small compounding pharmacies whose identities are hidden by state secrecy laws. These drugs are produced under less federal oversight, resulting in variable quality, and sometimes leading to botched executions.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Gecko99 on 2025-06-24 00:11:43+00:00.

Original Title: TIL 2055 brown recluse spiders were removed from a house in Kansas. The spiders had four human roommates who had lived in their house for many years and were never bitten, despite frequent encounters with the spiders.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TylerFortier_Photo on 2025-06-23 23:51:23+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Amazon Alexa recordings were successfully used as evidence in the conviction of a murder suspect in 2023. "Detectives discovered voice commands made by White and his wife at the time of the murder had been saved."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Double-decker_trams on 2025-06-23 21:57:09+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Songrot on 2025-06-23 21:42:38+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Late Empire of China banned Mining because of the traditional cosmological beliefs which regarded the land as a sacred legacy. This ban was lifted in 19th century in order to oppose European and American colonial imperialism and invasion

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NateNate60 on 2025-06-23 23:13:48+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Comet Hale-Bopp was independently discovered in 1995 by two people: astronomer Alan Hale and amateur stargazer Thomas Bopp. Both immediately alerted the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams to report their discovery. Hale sent an e-mail, while Bopp sent a Western Union telegram.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/adiplotti on 2025-06-23 21:35:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/thePHEnomIShere on 2025-06-23 19:41:38+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that after WWII, Japan faced a massive meth crisis when surplus military methamphetamine, originally given to kamikaze pilots and soldiers, flooded the black market leading to the world’s first major stimulant epidemic.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-06-23 17:39:49+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in Sept 2023 MGM Resorts International & Caesars Entertainment were both hit by ransomware attacks from the same group. Caesars paid a $15m ransom instead of the $30m the attackers had demanded, however MGM refused to pay & had its operations shut down for several days which led to a $100m loss.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-06-23 17:36:17+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 1977, Stu Ungar was bet $100,000 by Bob Stupak (a casino owner) that he could not count down half of a six-deck shoe and then successfully determine what the last 156 cards are. Ungar won the bet.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SWIMMlNG on 2025-06-23 16:06:45+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Reuben Berman, who in 1921 was ejected from a Giants game after refusing to return a foul ball. He successfully sued the team for causing him mental and physical distress, in turn setting the precedent for future fans to keep any foul balls.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/OMG__Ponies on 2025-06-23 16:49:48+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Mats Järlström, a man who was fined for engineering in Oregon when he challenged the traffic light timing. He eventually won against Oregon’s 'Title Laws' and was proven right about the traffic light timing being too short for safety.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/VelvetDreamers on 2025-06-23 15:00:52+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Wife selling was an alternative to expensive divorce in 17th century England. The sake was announced in advance and took the form of an auction, often at a local market, to which the wife would be led by a halter (usually of rope but sometimes of ribbon)around her neck, or arm.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/sodo_san on 2025-06-23 14:00:02+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MrMojoFomo on 2025-06-23 14:32:00+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that on June 5th, 1967, a cook on a fishing boat south of Iceland saw a column of smoke in the distance. Moving to assist, the crew approached only to find that it was a volcanic eruption in the middle of the ocean. The eruption lasted 7 months, resulting in the creation of a new island, Surtsey

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Deepakhn on 2025-06-23 14:23:37+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/No_Sign6616 on 2025-06-23 12:43:10+00:00.

Original Title: TIL after the 1904 PS General Slocum fire that resulted in 957 deaths, "It was discovered that Nonpareil Cork Works, supplier of cork materials to manufacturers of life preservers, placed 8 oz (230 g) iron bars inside the cork materials to meet minimum content requirements."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/RocketSammael on 2025-06-23 12:35:11+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Employees working for movie theaters in the US are exempted from federal law requiring overtime pay. The clause within the 'Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938' establishing "exemption for any employee employed by an establishment which is a motion picture theater" still remains in place today.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/pwincesspup on 2025-06-23 11:42:56+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the 2021 Astroworld Festival crowd crush event was not a random tragedy, but a result of several logistical decisions made by LiveNation including overselling the festival, security breaches at admissions, and poor crowd flow management

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Strong-Evidence7762 on 2025-06-23 10:24:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Smaptimania on 2025-06-23 10:43:55+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 2003 Hideo Kojima designed a Game Boy Advance game with a light sensor built into the cartridge. The player's in-game weapon is charged by taking the game outside and playing it in natural sunlight, and game mechanics change when it's dark out in your area

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sebastianlim on 2025-06-23 08:41:32+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303, whose pilots tried to land despite not being in a safe position for it, and with their landing gear up. The resulting belly landing damaged the engines so much that when they tried to take off again, it crashed into the city killing 98 people.