Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Gruselschloss on 2025-08-09 15:48:44+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2025-08-09 16:24:07+00:00.

Original Title: TIL early in his life, poet Lefkadio Hearn was abandonded by his father, then his mother and was adopted by his great aunt. Eventually, she abandoned him as well and send him to live with one of her former maids

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Archivist2016 on 2025-08-09 16:02:36+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/OutrageousTerm7140 on 2025-08-09 15:14:56+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Dougray Scott was originally cast as Wolverine in X-Men (2000). However, the filming of Mission: Impossible 2 went longer than expected, and he was injured in a motorbike accident while shooting the chase scene. He was forced to drop out of the project and was replaced by Hugh Jackman.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/deknegt1990 on 2025-08-09 14:02:41+00:00.

Original Title: TIL - Despite the importance of shooting in the NBA, there's never been more than 1 player in the 50-40-90 club in any given season, with there being only 14 such seasons since the introduction of the 3pt shot in 1979. Steve Nash is the only to have achieved more than 2 such seasons, with 4.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/EternalSnow05 on 2025-08-09 13:55:38+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the brown paper bag test is a term in the African American community to discriminate against darker skinned black people by comparing their skin tone to a brown paper bag. Many were barred from having access to resources and public spaces because of it.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/FearMyCock on 2025-08-09 12:07:07+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Sombra, a Colombian police dog so good at sniffing out drugs that drug cartels literally put a bounty on her head. She helped seize over 9 tons of cocaine, so they had to assign her bodyguards and relocate her for her own safety. Q

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/nuttybudd on 2025-08-09 09:25:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/keisermax34 on 2025-08-09 07:21:45+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SaberLover1000 on 2025-08-09 06:25:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-08-09 06:03:47+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Hedviga Golik, a Croatian nurse, died alone in her apartment in 1966. Her body remained undiscovered for 42 years until found in 2008 during renovations. Neighbors never reported her missing, and her electricity was paid by the building’s architect until shortly before her body was found.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/bros402 on 2025-08-09 05:27:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-08-09 05:09:05+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the 1522 Affair of the Sausages sparked the Reformation in Zürich when pastor Huldrych Zwingli defended eating sausage during Lent, arguing from Martin Luther’s doctrine of sola scriptura that Christians are free to fast or not, since the Bible does not forbid eating meat in Lent.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/bigus-_-dickus on 2025-08-09 05:40:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Frostgiant30 on 2025-08-09 05:21:51+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Walt Disney was like a grandfather figure to Kurt Russell. They often played ping pong together, and one of the last things Disney wrote was a note that included Russell's name. The reason for this note remains a mystery.

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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.