Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Teckert2009 on 2025-06-07 11:47:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ActiveTechnical8997 on 2025-06-07 10:04:08+00:00.

Original Title: TIL before any details of Pixar’s ‘Soul’ were public, a Black chauffeur told Kemp Powers (the film’s co-writer & co-director) that he knew Pixar was making a Black movie because he had never driven so many Black people to Pixar before.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Old-Worldliness11 on 2025-06-07 08:31:16+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ElegantPoet3386 on 2025-06-07 08:28:27+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/capribex on 2025-06-07 07:51:49+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Deep Purple wrote one of their best-known songs, "Highway Star", on the spot during an interview on their tour bus. A journalist asked Ritchie Blackmore how the band wrote songs. So they started jamming, came up with the song and performed it live for the first time that very night.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WARROVOTS on 2025-06-07 03:42:21+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that during WWII, 14,700 tons of Silver loaned from the US Treasury were used for the circuitry of the Manhattan Project, because there wasn't enough copper due to war-time shortages. All but "thirty six thousandths of one percent" were returned to the US Treasury by June 1st, 1970.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tropical_penguins on 2025-06-07 02:34:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Miller_8765 on 2025-06-07 02:44:57+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Charles Domery, an 18th-century Polish soldier, had such an extraordinary appetite that while imprisoned in England, he reportedly ate 174 cats in a single year, along with rats, candles, and even a severed human leg.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Old-Worldliness11 on 2025-06-07 02:24:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Overall-Register9758 on 2025-06-07 00:56:05+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/-AMARYANA- on 2025-06-07 01:17:49+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Cristiano Ronaldo does not drink alcohol. He even received libel damages over a Daily Mirror article that reported him drinking heavily in a nightclub while recovering from an injury in July 2008.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/kurtleyy on 2025-06-06 23:22:48+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ZitiRotini on 2025-06-06 23:13:09+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Dystopics_IT on 2025-06-06 23:04:33+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Las Vegas was officially founded in 1905 by a group of developers seeking to build a railroad stop in the desert between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. The city's name is derived from the Spanish word “vegas,” meaning meadows, and it was originally intended as a green oasis in the desert.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Capital_Tailor_7348 on 2025-06-06 21:40:08+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the worlds most violent courtship “the rough wooing” in which England invaded Scotland with the goal of capturing its infant queen Mary Stuart and forcing her to marry the English prince and later king Edward VI.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/omnipotentsandwich on 2025-06-06 21:22:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/exophades on 2025-06-06 21:03:56+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Albert Einstein's son Eduard studied medicine to become a psychiatrist, but was diagnosed with schizophrenia by the age of 21. His mother cared for him until she died in 1948. From then on Eduard lived most of the time at a psychiatric clinic in Zurich, where he died at 55 of a stroke.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/dakp15 on 2025-06-06 20:33:34+00:00.

Original Title: TIL M&Ms were created in 1941 after Forest Mars, Mars Company heir saw soldiers in the spanish civil war eating smarties (British M&Ms) and noticed the hard coloured shell stopped the chocolate inside melting. This property made them attractive to the US army who was the sole customer during WW2

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Flurb4 on 2025-06-06 19:52:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ssAskcuSzepS on 2025-06-06 18:55:50+00:00.

Original Title: TIL a Troponin Protein variant only occurs in heart muscle cells and only enters your blood due to heart muscle damage. That makes Troponin-I invaluable in diagnosing heart attacks and other heart-related problems.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/paraspooder on 2025-06-06 19:01:48+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CaptainFiguratively on 2025-06-06 18:27:34+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/iamveryDerp on 2025-06-06 18:26:32+00:00.

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

Original Title: TIL Sun, Earth, and all of the planets in the solar system orbit around the barycenter of the entire solar system. It is the center of mass of every object in the solar system combined. The solar system's barycenter can range from being near the center of the sun to being outside of sun's surface.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/EconomyPrompt2004 on 2025-06-06 15:32:31+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Wallace Vincent Boag and The Golden Horseshoe Revue were cited in The Guinness Book of World Records for having the greatest number of performances of any theatrical presentation.Boag's performances have influenced many later performers and comedians, most notable of whom is Steve Martin.