Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GruvisMalt on 2025-06-19 23:55:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Dystopics_IT on 2025-06-19 23:14:33+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Hetty Green, also called the “witch of Wall Street,” was incredibly rich, yet she continued to live in inexpensive lodgings, avoiding any display of wealth and seeking medical treatment for herself at charity clinics. On her death in 1916, Green left an estate of more than $100,000,000.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/gullydon on 2025-06-19 21:33:56+00:00.

Original Title: TIL The Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, and the United States are the only seven countries in the United Nations that do not require employers to provide paid time off for new parents.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/mintox777 on 2025-06-19 19:16:30+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Maximum_Still_2617 on 2025-06-19 18:53:28+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Key4Lif3 on 2025-06-19 18:20:21+00:00.

Original Title: TIL a controlled 2002 trial studying the effects of placebo "sham" surgery vs real arthroscopic knee surgery for osteoarthritis showed no difference in pain relief or functioning between the placebo group and surgical intervention groups over a 24 month period.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Apprehensive_Bison46 on 2025-06-19 15:40:47+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the Food and Drug Administration has a Most Wanted list that focuses on criminal activities related to FDA-regulated products, mostly prescription drugs and medical products. It includes a guy who imported counterfeit Colgate toothpaste

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/wotton on 2025-06-19 17:32:14+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SuspiciousWeekend41 on 2025-06-19 16:08:26+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Marlon Brando held several patents, including one for a "Drumhead tensioning device and method" (U.S. Patent 6,812,392), which was granted posthumously in November 2004. He was also an active amateur radio enthusiast with the call signs KE6PZH and FO5GJ (the latter from his Tahitian island)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ro0niL-WazLib on 2025-06-19 16:10:27+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SWIMMlNG on 2025-06-19 15:26:39+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the Stanley Cup has been pissed in multiple times, punted into a canal, dropped from a balcony, and left in two seperate pools. In terms of boyency, a player noted that "the Stanley Cup does not float."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/lIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIII on 2025-06-19 15:08:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MrMojoFomo on 2025-06-19 15:07:02+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that tornado alley is shifting east. Over the last 40 years or so, the frequency of tornado outbreaks in Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska has declined by about 10%, while in Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Kentucky it has increased by roughly the same amount

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/my4coins on 2025-06-19 14:49:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2025-06-19 14:06:53+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Lorenzo Bernini's altarpiece "the ecstasy of Saint Teresa", in the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, has been described by critics as "the most astounding peep show in art". In victorian times, critics wanted it destroyed, while others have argued that it doesn't contain anything sexual

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/cajunbander on 2025-06-19 13:22:37+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that during their campaigns leading up to the 1964 United States presidential election, supporters of Barry Goldwater and Lyndon B. Johnson separately created sodas for each candidate. Goldwater’s was called “Gold Water” and Johnson’s was called “Johnson Juice”.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Gallagher1 on 2025-06-19 13:02:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/teos61 on 2025-06-19 12:16:05+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BeefsteakChuckies on 2025-06-19 11:50:44+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/charmer143 on 2025-06-19 11:25:14+00:00.

Original Title: TIL A woman named Sonora Smart Dodd came up with the idea of Father's Day after being inspired by a Mother's Day sermon and appreciating her father, who raised her and her siblings by himself. On June 19, 1910, the first annual celebration was held.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Dystopics_IT on 2025-06-19 11:09:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GentPc on 2025-06-19 10:40:37+00:00.

Original Title: TILL About Unity Milford. A UK socialite born in Swastika, Ontario she was such a virulent anti-semite and an admirer of Hitler that she attempted suicide upon the UK's declaration of war on Germany in 1939. The botched attempt left her partially incapacitated until her death in 1948.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BeefsteakChuckies on 2025-06-19 09:37:15+00:00.

Original Title: TIL The Basilica of Saint Clement in Rome, built in 1100, has levels that span millennia. The Basilica sits on top of an early 4th cent. church, which sits on top of a Mithraeum cavern/temple from 1st/2d cent. All built on the foundation of Republic-era house destroyed in in the Great Fire of 64

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/jacknunn on 2025-06-19 09:09:46+00:00.

Original Title: TIL mouse-deer are the smallest hoofed mammals in the world, but they are not deer (nor mice). The Java mouse-deer is the smallest, with an average length of 45 cm (18 in) and an average height of 30 cm (12 in)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/sekretspod on 2025-06-19 08:29:14+00:00.