Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/trashpanda2night on 2025-08-09 05:01:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Flurb4 on 2025-08-09 04:35:57+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in addition to Kamikaze aircraft, Japan during WWII had manned suicide torpedoes called Kaiten. Once sealed in, the pilots could not unlock the hatches and the device would self destruct if the mission failed.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Newburn95 on 2025-08-09 03:32:15+00:00.

Original Title: TIL The Murderer Susan Adkins of the Manson family married twice during her imprisonment. Both men were admirers she met through them writing her. The first falsely claimed to be a millionaire and the second was a Harvard law graduate who represented her at her parole hearings.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SFXBTPD on 2025-08-09 03:23:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/South_Gas626 on 2025-08-09 03:05:54+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Robert Patrick had been secretly battling an intense substance addiction prior to landing the T-1000 role in Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991). Yet, in order to meet the athletic demands of the character, he completely sobered up for the entire filming process.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Grouchy_Storm6020 on 2025-08-09 02:59:19+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Hugh Thompson Jr., a U.S. Army officer who ended the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War. He landed his helicopter between fleeing Vietnamese civilians and pursuing American troops, telling his gunner to open fire on the soldiers if they attacked.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/strangedot13 on 2025-08-09 01:21:53+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/rabbi420 on 2025-08-09 00:17:44+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/stiucsirt on 2025-08-08 23:52:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/gimmesuandchocolate on 2025-08-08 23:52:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/mucubed on 2025-08-08 23:43:34+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Quad_C-137 on 2025-08-08 22:30:51+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SaberLover1000 on 2025-08-08 21:32:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/LookAtThatBacon on 2025-08-08 21:26:53+00:00.

Original Title: TIL two weeks after being appointed CEO of Olympus, Michael Christopher Woodford blew the whistle on Olympus after he was fired for repeatedly questioning suspicious transactions and involving external auditors, exposing one of the biggest "loss-hiding arrangements in Japanese corporate history".

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/senator_amygdala on 2025-08-08 21:18:19+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Pocahontas's real name was Matoax. Her tribe carefully concealed from the English her real name, changing it to Pocahontas, "out of a superstitious fear, lest they, by the knowledge of her true name, should be enabled to do her some hurt"

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/nebmij1 on 2025-08-08 18:45:21+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that a common complaint among test audiences for Good Night and Good Luck was that the actor playing Joseph McCarthy was too over the top, not realizing the film used actual archival footage of McCarthy himself

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/psychosisnaut on 2025-08-08 17:53:31+00:00.

Original Title: TIL "Bushido, the Soul of Japan" by Inazo Nitobé, generally considered the modern incarnation of the Samurai Bushido code, was largely written in Malvern, Pennsylvania and published in Philadelphia in 1899

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Physical_Hamster_118 on 2025-08-08 17:45:37+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-08-08 17:16:20+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2012 every household in the Spanish town, Sodeto (250 people in 70 households), except one collectively entered the lottery El Gordo & ended up winning $130K each. The only person not included was Costis Mitsotakis cause the local association who sold tickets door-to-door forgot to go to his.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Rhino-Kid22 on 2025-08-08 17:13:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-08-08 15:40:15+00:00.

Original Title: TIL when Kelly Clarkson played "Because of You" (which she wrote) for Clive Davis to consider for her album, he said it was a shitty song because it didn't rhyme. He then played her a song he felt should be included "Behind These Hazel Eyes" but got confused when he realized she had written that too

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Flubadubadubadub on 2025-08-08 15:37:07+00:00.

Original Title: TIL In 2009 the term 'Ghost City' was coined to describe the large number of cities that had been built in China, but were largely unoccupied. However, it was Chinese policy to move the population from a predominantly rural base (82% in 1978) to urban (64% by 2020), the urban target is 75% by 2035.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/bostonstrong781 on 2025-08-08 14:55:23+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that a pioneer of the idea "8 hours labor, 8 hours recreation, 8 hours rest" was a wealthy 19th century businessman who tested out the idea in his own factory and in a town he founded as part of his embrace of socialism and radically equal society

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/backrowejoe on 2025-08-08 13:25:48+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-08-08 13:13:24+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Mother Carey is a figure in 18th- and 19th-century English sailor folklore, seen as a harbinger of storms and linked to Davy Jones. The name comes from Latin Mater cara, meaning “Precious Mother.” Sailors called storm petrels “Mother Carey’s chickens,” believing them to be souls of dead seamen.