Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/skateboardjim on 2025-06-22 19:54:36+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Murderhands on 2025-06-22 19:19:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/IDoLikeMyShishkebabs on 2025-06-22 19:09:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/centaurquestions on 2025-06-22 18:35:54+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Flubadubadubadub on 2025-06-22 18:28:56+00:00.

Original Title: TIL That in 2009 the BBC introduced a nominally children's TV show call Horrible Histories based on the popular book of the same name. It told irreverent stories from Western History back to the Stone Age. It became a sleeper adult hit and ran for over 70 episodes.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/pichipichipoco on 2025-06-22 16:36:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ill_Definition8074 on 2025-06-22 16:21:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/southofakronoh on 2025-06-22 15:19:19+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sound_Aware on 2025-06-22 14:43:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Fenceypents on 2025-06-22 14:42:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Giff95 on 2025-06-22 14:18:10+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/EconomyPrompt2004 on 2025-06-22 14:01:05+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Cooper's Law. The law states that the maximum number of voice conversations or equivalent data transactions that can be conducted in all of the useful radio spectrum over a given area doubles every 30 months.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ijustwannanap on 2025-06-22 13:05:39+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of David Kelly, a British weapons expert. Two days after being publicly named as the source behind a BBC report questioning the UK government's claim about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, Kelly committed suicide a short walk from his home.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/haloarh on 2025-06-22 12:48:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2025-06-22 09:53:30+00:00.

Original Title: TIL studies of the archives of the "office of the night", a government office tasked with prosecuting homosexuality in Renaissance Florence, reveals that in a city of 40,000 inhabitants a whopping 16,000 men were implicated in sodomy accusations, although only around 3k cases ended up in convictions

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/HOLUPREDICTIONS on 2025-06-22 09:17:10+00:00.

Original Title: TIL an endocrinologist irradiated the testicles of Oregon and Washington prisoners. He gave them $5/mo, and $100 when they had to receive a vasectomy upon conclusion of the trial. The surgeon said it was necessary to "keep from contaminating the general population with radiation-induced mutants"

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NoxiousQueef on 2025-06-21 23:40:58+00:00.

Original Title: TIL While nicknames in English are mostly derived from the beginning of a name (Benjamin to Ben, William to Will), nicknames in Spanish are normally derived from the end (Benjamín to Mín, Ramón to Món, Enedina to Dina).

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JoeyZasaa on 2025-06-22 05:12:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/licecrispies on 2025-06-22 02:40:31+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the Doctor's Riot of 1788 in NYC, which left up to 20 dead and was a reaction to physicians and medical students stealing bodies from graves. It forced doctors in the city to go into hiding.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/peter_bolton on 2025-06-22 02:38:26+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the social media service Blue Sky (founded by Jack Dorsey years ago) currently has Lantian "Jay" Gruber as its CEO, and that by coincidence, the name "Lantian" (given to her by her Chinese mother) means "blue sky" in Mandarin Chinese.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Soorena on 2025-06-22 02:46:04+00:00.

Original Title: TIL United States, under President Eisenhower, initiated Iran's nuclear program through the Atoms for Peace program. In 1957, the U.S. provided Iran with its first nuclear reactor and nuclear fuel. Later, after 1967, the U.S. also supplied Iran with weapons-grade enriched uranium.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Dans-les-bois on 2025-06-22 02:44:12+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/katubug on 2025-06-22 02:31:05+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Tim22Mt on 2025-06-22 01:26:12+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Douglas Bader, a British WWII ace who lost both legs before the war. He flew with prosthetics, scored 22 kills, and became one of Britain’s top pilots. After being captured, the RAF air-dropped him a new prosthetic leg behind enemy lines.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Money_Writer7469 on 2025-06-21 23:47:21+00:00.