Today I Learned (TIL)

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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.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sebastianlim on 2025-06-19 06:50:01+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about John Doe No. 24, an black teen who was found wandering the streets in 1945. As he was deaf, and seemingly incapable of otherwise communicating, police were unable to identify him, and sent him various mental institutions until his death in 1993.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Darth_Vader_2000 on 2025-06-19 07:00:33+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Spirytus Rektyfikowany, a Polish rectified spirit with 96% alcohol by volume, is one of the strongest commercially available alcoholic drinks in the world. It’s so potent it’s banned in several countries.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/FIRE3883 on 2025-06-19 05:26:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/astarisaslave on 2025-06-19 02:35:53+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss put his firstborn child, a girl, up for adoption as he was too poor to raise her at the time and never mentioned her to his six other children. The woman eventually connected with her birth family in 2018 and wrote a book about the experience.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Blutarg on 2025-06-19 02:11:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/PedanticPlatypodes on 2025-06-19 00:42:02+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Competitive_Sell_126 on 2025-06-19 00:27:34+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Lyodura, a brain surgery material that, unknown to the buyers, was tissue harvested by the seller from black market human corpses and carried fatal incurable prion disease. Over 150 people were infected before its ban in 1996

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/mftheoryArts on 2025-06-18 23:34:35+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Birds of the same species can have regional accents. These accents, which go unnoticed by humans, are biologically significant for birds as they use songs for mating, territory defense, and communication. Avian accents may develop like the human game of “Telephone.”

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sanguinusshiboleth on 2025-06-18 19:58:18+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the first all black broadway product, Shuffle Along, original run was so poor that at some points they could only get second hand costumes but by end of it's broadway run it had earned $9million dollars.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Accurate_Cry_8937 on 2025-06-18 22:22:48+00:00.

Original Title: TIL research has shown that some forms of cognitive stimulation like video games being played by seniors may delay or slow the onset of degenerative neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Oyster_- on 2025-06-18 21:39:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/camwynya on 2025-06-18 20:54:49+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Canadian_Z on 2025-06-18 21:09:51+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BeGoodToEverybody123 on 2025-06-18 17:25:16+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MrMojoFomo on 2025-06-18 20:01:54+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the Washington Monument is topped with an aluminum cap. When it was installed (1884), it cost roughly the same per ounce as silver and was considered a precious metal. Within 2 years, a new refining process developed that dropped the metal's price from $4.86/lb in 1886 to $0.78/lb in 1893

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/-AMARYANA- on 2025-06-18 19:53:58+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Peter Tosh did not attend Bob Marley's funeral. He didn't attend Marley's funeral because the Rastafari faith doesn't practice mourning death the way Christians do and, instead, they celebrate life.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/originalchaosinabox on 2025-06-18 14:33:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TheBanishedBard on 2025-06-18 18:29:37+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the famous British composer Benjamin Britten was known for maintaining close personal friendships with the adolescent singers he cast in most of his operas, including sharing baths, kisses, and beds with them. Despite this, all of "Britten's Boys" categorically deny any form of abuse.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ShangLoongMa on 2025-06-18 15:34:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/RaccoonCityTacos on 2025-06-18 14:54:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TheLastRulerofMerv on 2025-06-18 15:06:41+00:00.