Today I Learned (TIL)

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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.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Oh_My_Monster on 2025-06-21 23:25:10+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Kishōtenketsu, a 4 act narrative structure very common to East Asia that does not rely on conflict to drive a story but rather has a twist or shift in perspective and a conclusion that may or may not actually "resolve" the twist.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JoeChemoWasTaken on 2025-06-22 00:17:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-06-21 23:29:16+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Marine Duane Dewey was being treated by a navy corpsman in Korea after a grenade exploded at his feet, when another grenade landed near them. Dewey immediately smothered it shouting "Doc, I got it in my hip pocket!" Dewey survived & won the Medal of Honor for saving the corpsman's life & others.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-06-21 23:25:51+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Pete Conrad said "Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me." after stepping onto a landing pad on the moon in order to win a $500 bet he made to prove NASA didn't script it. After stepping on the lunar surface, he said "Oooh, is that soft & queasy."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Serkr2009 on 2025-06-21 22:46:25+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/peter_bolton on 2025-06-21 22:58:29+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Captain Cook's famous exploration ship HMS Endeavour was later purchased by a company and renamed Lord Sandwich, but since another ship already had that name, it had to be renamed to Lord Sandwich 2, which later became a prison ship for England during the American Revolution.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/katxwoods on 2025-06-21 21:58:49+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tessaemilybrown on 2025-06-21 21:13:34+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Spiders can fly using electricity in the air (a process called ballooning). They can release silk threads that catch an electric field, which then interacts with the Earth's electric field, providing lift and propulsion. This allows them to travel long distances, even across oceans.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ninesevenecho on 2025-06-21 19:22:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/jwvcjvc8xe72-hfui on 2025-06-21 18:08:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BunnyBob77 on 2025-06-21 18:00:22+00:00.

Original Title: TIL after Britain's defeat in the American Revolution, King George III seriously considered abdicating the throne and retiring to Germany. He was talked out of it shortly before delivering a speech on abdication.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BluddGorr on 2025-06-21 15:51:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/jtnft on 2025-06-21 14:47:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/IDKhowtoscript on 2025-06-21 13:50:27+00:00.

Original Title: TIL China's first email to the internet was sent in 1987, with the message: 'Across the Great Wall we can reach every corner of the world.' This was 11 years before the development of the Great Firewall of China began.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Darth_Vader_2000 on 2025-06-21 13:45:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/PeopleHaterThe12th on 2025-06-21 13:12:10+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the Saudi dinasty, which unified Arabia and named the country after them, had to fight two other major dinasties over the control of Arabia, the Rashidis and the Hashemites, the Rashidis do not exist anymore but the Hashemites are kings of modern day Jordan

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Butwhatif77 on 2025-06-21 11:53:10+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the reason for something blue as part of the whole marriage tradition of something old, new, borrowed, blue, and a silver sixpence for your shoe, was that blue represents purity and fidelity in a marriage. All the others are centered around protection and good luck for the family in the future.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 on 2025-06-21 11:28:03+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the original Ferris Wheel opened on 21 June 1893, as the centrepiece of the Chicago World’s Fair. Designed by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., it stood over 80 metres tall, carried up to 2,160 people in 36 cars, and was powered by a 1,000-horsepower steam engine.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Rantamplan123 on 2025-06-21 10:35:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2025-06-21 06:00:27+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Pausanias, the Spartan general who defeated the Persians at Plataea, was later accused of colluding with the Persians. He sought sanctuary at a temple, where his mother visited him only to lay a brick at the entrance, implying that they should seal it and starve him to death, which they did

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JoeyZasaa on 2025-06-21 04:59:10+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Dans-les-bois on 2025-06-21 04:17:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/sonicandfffan on 2025-06-21 04:07:47+00:00.