Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Hot_Cheesecake_905 on 2025-06-12 16:08:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BadenBaden1981 on 2025-06-12 15:48:56+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Ulysses Grant wrote his memoir while he was bankrupt and terminally ill. Mark Twain developed marketing strategy including Union veterans selling books in uniform. Eventually it became one of the bestselling books of the century.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NoxiousQueef on 2025-06-12 15:11:55+00:00.

Original Title: TIL The lowest-scoring NBA game in history occurred in 1950 with a 19-18 victory for the Fort Wayne Pistons over the Minneapolis Lakers. Whenever the Pistons led, they held or passed the ball around as long as possible, eliciting boos from their own fans. The shot clock was introduced 4 years later.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/backrowejoe on 2025-06-12 14:50:28+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/VegemiteSucks on 2025-06-12 14:35:15+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the premiere of Gioachino Rossini’s opera The Barber of Seville ended in complete disaster. One of the singers tripped over a trapdoor and had to sing with a bloody nose. During the Finale to Act 1, a cat wandered onstage and declined to leave, and so was forcibly flung to the wings.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Capital_Tailor_7348 on 2025-06-12 14:10:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/lnfinity on 2025-06-12 12:34:35+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Humans are not the only species that has discovered agriculture. Ants have been practicing agriculture for at least 50 million years. The domestication of plant, fungus, and animal species by ants is well documented.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Thin-Background384 on 2025-06-12 09:25:37+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the trawler Lurongyu 2682 was the site of a mutiny in 2011 where crew members beat up their captain due to poor conditions and killed the cook who tried to intervene. In the ensuing month, trying to prevent a counter-mutiny, 16 of the 33 crew were killed and 6 jumped ship out of fear.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-06-12 11:13:53+00:00.

Original Title: TIL producer Christopher Nolan initially opposed & tried to change director Zack Snyder & writer David Goyer's idea to have Superman kill Zod at the end of Man of Steel. He told them "There's no way you can do this". However, Goyer convinced him with a scene where Superman killing Zod saves a family

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Lucky-Succotash3251 on 2025-06-12 10:15:34+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sebastianlim on 2025-06-12 09:01:07+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about John Day, who attempted to dive to 130 feet in a wooden diving chamber in 1774. After a few hours, he had not resurfaced and was eventually declared dead. Day is the first recorded death in a submarine.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/1000LiveEels on 2025-06-12 04:23:00+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the World War II submarine USS Tang sank herself with her own torpedo. Of the 30 survivors, 13 escaped via the only recorded use of a "Momsen Lung," a primitive rebreather device. 9 others escaped and were captured & beaten by survivors from ships Tang had previously sank.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/cuspofgreatness on 2025-06-11 23:51:52+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Berry College, a private liberal arts college in Mount Berry community adjacent to Rome, Georgia, holds the world record for the largest campus at 27,000 acres - including fields, forests and Lavender Mountain. It was founded on values based on Christian principles by Martha Berry in 1902.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DaganMoody on 2025-06-12 05:05:47+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the UK’s 1833 Slavery Abolition Act: around 46,000 former slave owners were compensated by the government for lost “property” — a huge payout equivalent to billions today, making it one of Britain’s largest-ever state debts. No compensation was given to enslaved people themselves.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Agreeable-Storage895 on 2025-06-12 04:19:28+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MoneyPatience7803 on 2025-06-12 03:49:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Remote-Ad-3309 on 2025-06-12 04:03:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/nuttybudd on 2025-06-12 03:26:53+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Sony Pictures failed to adapt Michael Lewis' best-selling book Flash Boys into a movie because of their apprehension with having an Asian lead actor, as revealed in private emails leaked in the 2014 Sony Pictures hack.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Brak15 on 2025-06-12 03:24:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/49orth on 2025-06-12 02:43:27+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/EastSignal on 2025-06-12 02:18:53+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ElevatorVivid3638 on 2025-06-12 01:04:15+00:00.

Original Title: TIL After British Airways Flight 9 flew through volcanic ash, the Captain announced "We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/pearshapedmomma on 2025-06-12 00:02:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/real_picklejuice on 2025-06-11 22:50:24+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Helen Hulick Beebe, who was called as a witness in the trial of two men accused of burgling her home. The judge disapproved of her wearing trousers instead of a dress, and ordered her to return 'properly attired'. When she returned still wearing pants, the judge jailed her for contempt.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/vistopher on 2025-06-11 20:44:11+00:00.