Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JackThaBongRipper on 2025-06-17 21:10:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/0110110111 on 2025-06-17 20:51:37+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/firedog7881 on 2025-06-17 20:41:31+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Beginning_Cap_1563 on 2025-06-17 20:10:10+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that on 25/2/1991, the Patriot missile system failed at an airbase in Saudi Arabia, allowing a Scud missile to hit the airbase, killing 28. A build up of small timing errors caused by errors in the internal clock led to the system failing to detect the missile on time. A patch was issued on 26/2

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/maythesunalwaysshine on 2025-06-17 19:47:59+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 1899 the members of Barnam and Baileys Greatest Show on Earth "freak show" rebelled against being labelled as freaks and demanded a more appropriate name. This created major headlines and public debate across Britain where they were performing at the time.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/cheesewombat on 2025-06-17 19:39:50+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Rutherford B. Hayes is arguably more revered in Paraguay than in the United States. In 1878 the US president settled a land dispute between Paraguay and Argentina that gave the former 60% of their current territory and effectively guaranteed their survival as a nation.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/bnrshrnkr on 2025-06-17 19:49:32+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Ken Allen, an orangutan at the San Diego Zoo, became famous for his many successful escapes. During his escapes, he would peacefully stroll around the zoo looking at other animals. He never acted aggressively toward patrons, but would throw rocks at Otis, another orangutan he “despised”

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Puzzleheaded-Cake176 on 2025-06-17 14:41:09+00:00.

Original Title: Today I learned about Tveita gang- a notorious gang in Norway responsible for numerous acts of violence during the 80s and 90s. One member, Pal Enger was convicted twice for stealing Edvard Munch most famous paintings, leaving notes for the police thanking them for making it easy.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/RanchoddasChanchad69 on 2025-06-17 17:51:19+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/stealthynotion on 2025-06-17 17:21:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/waitingforthesun92 on 2025-06-17 16:50:29+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 2019, American actor Charles Levin, aged 70, died after his car got stuck in unmaintained wilderness road in Oregon. After trying to free it, he left the car in search of help and fell to his death down a 30-foot (9 m) embankment. The body of his dog, Boo Bear, was found inside the car.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/blockchainbandolero on 2025-06-17 15:40:37+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/bnrshrnkr on 2025-06-17 15:20:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/smrad8 on 2025-06-17 14:59:25+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MrMojoFomo on 2025-06-17 14:56:14+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1999, 11-year old Mitchell Schop wrote to his favorite band, Cake, and asked if they would play his Bar Mitzvah. After Schop sang his favorite song of theirs to the band over the phone, Cake agreed and made Schop's party the first stop on their 1999 world tour

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/n_mcrae_1982 on 2025-06-17 14:43:10+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Proud-Wall1443 on 2025-06-17 14:25:32+00:00.

Original Title: TIL: There was an anti-war blocade at the Pentagon that devolved into a riot in 1967. In attendance was a group chanting to levitate the building, and that GSA insisted they keep it to 3' or less to protect the foundation.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ModenaR on 2025-06-17 13:44:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 on 2025-06-17 11:55:56+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in June 1885, after a stormy 27-day voyage, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York in 350 crated pieces. At its October 1886 dedication, traders tossed ticker tape from windows, beginning the New York tradition of the ticker-tape parade.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Smaptimania on 2025-06-17 09:58:01+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in the Middle Ages, the bodies of aristocrats who died in far-off lands would sometimes be boiled to remove the flesh from the bone, in order to make it possible to hygenically transport their bones to their homelands for burial

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DangerNoodle1993 on 2025-06-17 09:48:05+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Interceptor on 2025-06-17 09:58:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Master_McKnowledge on 2025-06-17 05:47:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WorthwhileDomains on 2025-06-17 05:34:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Silent-Pay7847 on 2025-06-17 05:17:18+00:00.