Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/strangelove4564 on 2025-06-05 23:01:48+00:00.

Original Title: TIL a major naval battle between the English and French took place in Hudson Bay in 1697, along the arctic coast of what is now Manitoba. The French were trying to drive out England's Hudson's Bay Company. The battle was a victory for France.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/EdgeOfExceptional on 2025-06-05 21:42:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/exophades on 2025-06-05 18:55:01+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the Fleury-devant-Douaumont town in France remains unoccupied with a population of 0, after being destroyed by the Germans and French in the Battle of Verdun during WW1, where they captured and recaptured it 16 times.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Infinite_Research_52 on 2025-06-05 18:46:10+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Hendiadys is a figure of speech, typically where a noun and adjective pair are replaced with two nouns joined by a conjunction. Shakespeare was fond of using hendiadys in his plays, for instance, in Macbeth: 'sound and fury' instead of 'furious sound'.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Flaxmoore on 2025-06-05 18:25:09+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan has a sealed glass vial that is reputed to contain Thomas Edison's last breath. Edison and Ford were longtime friends and the vial was given to Ford by Edison's son.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/colonelsmoothie on 2025-06-05 17:08:27+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Same_Huckleberry_122 on 2025-06-05 16:08:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Aggravating_Shoe3748 on 2025-06-05 15:51:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/No_Dig_8299 on 2025-06-05 15:27:22+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that during WWII, nearly 1,000 Polish children were deported to Siberian gulags. Starving and displaced, they found refuge in India, welcomed by Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar, who built them a home, gave them schooling, and treated them as his own.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/squid0gaming on 2025-06-05 15:07:30+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in Mongolia there is a tradition of giving names with unpleasant qualities to children born to a couple whose previous children have died, in the belief that it will mislead evil spirits seeking to steal the child. Examples include Khenbish 'Nobody' and Medekhgüi 'I Don't Know'

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/LookAtThatBacon on 2025-06-05 14:32:57+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Pierce Brosnan was offered James Bond in 1986 after NBC cancelled Remington Steele. However, the publicity of the offer improved Remington Steele's ratings and it was renewed, contractually requiring Brosnan to return to the show and forcing producers to have to look elsewhere for a James Bond.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/747WakeTurbulance on 2025-06-05 14:05:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/PoloniusPunk on 2025-06-05 13:04:11+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Higher Ed instructors were sometimes forced to choose between academic fidelity and knowingly inflating grades to manufacture the good academic standing that could shield their students from the Vietnam draft.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Used_Security5145 on 2025-06-05 12:42:56+00:00.

Original Title: Today I learned that in 1666, the English village of Eyam made an extraordinary sacrifice. After the bubonic plague reached their community, the villagers chose to quarantine themselves rather than flee. An estimated 260 villagers died, however, this decision likely saved thousands.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/diacewrb on 2025-06-05 12:06:35+00:00.

Original Title: TIL: Warren Buffett and Jimmy Buffett took a DNA test to see if they were related. The results came back negative, but the two men remained friends and continued to refer to each other as “Uncle Warren” and “Cousin Jimmy.”

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Mrk2d on 2025-06-05 11:28:48+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Idontknowofname on 2025-06-05 06:28:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/smrad8 on 2025-06-05 07:45:10+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Maurice White noticed his astrological chart was loaded with three of the four ancient elements but mostly lacked Water, which inspired him to name his band after the remaining three: Earth, Wind & Fire.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Straight-Strategy724 on 2025-06-05 07:42:49+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Christopher Walken worked as a lion tamer at age 16. He performed in a circus alongside a lioness named Sheba, whom he described as “very sweet” and compared to a dog.He took the job one summer before becoming an actor, saying, “Who’s going to turn that down?”

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

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/manbeardawg on 2025-06-05 03:20:30+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/toxicbrew on 2025-06-05 02:55:38+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Canada closed its port of entry at the Franklin Centre/Churubasco border crossing in 2011. In 2012 the US rebuilt its side with a $6.8 million building. It remains open today as the only one way border crossing between the two nations.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/n_mcrae_1982 on 2025-06-05 02:05:19+00:00.

Original Title: TIL a year after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., his younger brother Alfred Daniel King drowned in his swimming pool. Five years after that, their mother Alberta Williams King was also assassinated.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Future_Usual_8698 on 2025-06-05 02:02:49+00:00.

Original Title: TIL When painting the Mona Lisa over many months, "to keep his subject (Lisa Gherardini) relaxed and entertained, Da Vinci had six musicians to play for her and installed a musical fountain invented by himself. Different, beautiful works were read out loud and a white Persian cat and a greyhound ...

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/pagit on 2025-06-05 01:07:34+00:00.

Original Title: TIL During the Great Depression, librarians rode on horseback sometimes for hundreds of miles, to deliver books to isolated communities in the Appalachian Mountains as part of the Pack Horse Library Project. They were often women and faced dangerous terrain and harsh weather.