Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-06-13 19:01:56+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in order to prove to Sony that The Social Network would be under 2 hours despite the length of Aaron Sorkin's script (162 pages instead of the typical 120), director David Fincher timed Sorkin reading it out loud, which took 1 hour & 59 minutes. The final runtime was the same. (25:46-26:58)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/scream3isawful on 2025-06-13 18:38:48+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/bygonecenarion on 2025-06-13 17:40:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DangerNoodle1993 on 2025-06-13 16:44:23+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the "Alexandra Limp" — a Victorian fashion trend where ladies wore mismatched footwear, one high heel and one low, to emulate Princess Alexandra, who developed a pronounced limp after a bout of rheumatic fever.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MrMojoFomo on 2025-06-13 16:24:58+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the first woman considered to achieve the naval rank of admiral was Laskarina Pinotsi, commonly called Bouboulina (Greek for "little darling" or "little something"). She commanded Greek forces in the Greek war of Independence in 1821

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NapalmBurns on 2025-06-13 16:05:02+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Lady Mondegreen - a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. An example would be Jimi Hendrix's song "Purple Haze", where many, instead of the line "kiss the sky" mishear Jimi singing "kiss this guy"

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/_NormalHumanStuff on 2025-06-13 16:04:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ibizl on 2025-06-13 15:49:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/PodfatherIII on 2025-06-13 14:57:33+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Sam Wanamaker, actor and the director of the pilot episode of TV series Lancer as featured in Tarantino's Once Upon Time in Hollywood, also led efforts to build a replica of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on London's South Bank, near the original site.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/cajunbander on 2025-06-13 13:12:59+00:00.

Original Title: TIL from around the 12th Century until about 200 years ago, sticks, called tally sticks, were used to record large financial transactions. This is the origin of the word “stock” (as in trading stocks) and lead to the burning down of the Palace of Westminster in 1834.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Lollosaurus_Rex on 2025-06-13 14:25:30+00:00.

Original Title: TIL During double-amputee athelete Oscar Pistorius's trial in South Africa for the shooting of his girlfriend, he was found not guilty of murder but guilty of culpable homicide (like manslaughter). However, the prosecution was able to appeal his murder acquittal into a guilty verdict of murder.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DangerNoodle1993 on 2025-06-13 14:00:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/seecat46 on 2025-06-13 13:54:54+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-06-13 12:51:45+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Warner Bros. Games canceled a Wonder Woman video game that was "still years away from release" even though it had already spent more than $100 million on the game's development. WB also closed the studio that had been behind that development, Monolith Productions.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Interesting-Coast-72 on 2025-06-13 11:50:48+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/HopWallace on 2025-06-13 10:59:02+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Rustyudder on 2025-06-13 08:09:19+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SuvenPan on 2025-06-13 10:18:43+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Marottichal a village in India was rife with alcoholism and illicit gambling, but everything changed after one man taught the town to play chess. Miraculously, the game’s popularity flourished while drinking and gambling declined.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Vegetable-Orange-965 on 2025-06-13 06:54:50+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the “Zoom-Zoom-Zoom” song used in Mazda car commercials isn’t actually in English. It’s a Brazilian capoeira song (in Portuguese) also known as “Zum Zum Zum” and featured in the 1993 movie, Only The Strong.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/electricmastro on 2025-06-13 07:50:50+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of the various roles Sean Connery turned down, they included Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs, John Hammond in Jurassic Park, Morpheus in The Matrix, Dumbledore in Harry Potter, and Gandalf in Lord of the Rings. Of the Hannibal part in particular, Connery felt it was too "disgusting."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AttemptingToGeek on 2025-06-13 04:48:52+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/vistopher on 2025-06-13 05:09:49+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Clarence King, discoverer of Mount Whitney and one of the USA's best-known scientists, revealed on his deathbed in 1901 that he had a second life, wife & five kids, living as a Black man named James Todd.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/lyf-ftw on 2025-06-13 04:10:51+00:00.

Original Title: TIL badminton was originally called "Poona" after the Indian city where British officers modified ancient battledore in the 1860s, but was renamed after the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton House in Gloucestershire

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Overall-Register9758 on 2025-06-13 02:57:27+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AntiFascistButterfly on 2025-06-13 02:19:48+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the 3.5% rule: 3.5% of a national population peacefully protesting on the streets at once will ALWAYS topple a Dictatorship or democratic government. Moreover peaceful movements succeed twice as often as violent ones. This surprised even the Harvard political scientist who discovered it.