Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/i_am_loki_ofasgard on 2025-08-14 12:23:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/cliff_tarpey on 2025-08-14 12:18:34+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/nuttybudd on 2025-08-14 09:33:26+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Clara Peller, the Wendy's "Where's the beef?" lady, was also in an ad for Prego in which she says, "I found it!". After the Prego ad aired, Wendy's decided to terminate her contract, stating the Prego commercial implies "that Clara found the beef at somewhere other than Wendy's restaurants".

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/consulent-finanziar on 2025-08-14 07:23:45+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/i_am_loki_ofasgard on 2025-08-14 00:25:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/mucubed on 2025-08-14 04:28:48+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-08-14 03:38:21+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that autistic people live about 17 years less than average. Risks include epilepsy, heart disease, suicide, accidental deaths including drowning, and inadequate recognition and management of pain, especially among non-speaking individuals. Historically, they have been vulnerable to infanticide.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/lettuceandcucumber on 2025-08-14 03:05:35+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2009, My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero had his home searched, his wife interviewed and was put on the FBI watchlist after releasing a song called “I Am Going to Kill the President of the United States of America” by his band Leathermouth. He was banned from performing it (but did).

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/todayok on 2025-08-14 03:05:28+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/altrightobserver on 2025-08-14 02:35:59+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Priority Records began as a joke music label in the 1980s, created solely to sell records for the fictional R&B group The California Raisins. After the success of the commercials, they signed NWA and released Straight Outta Compton

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Vegetable-Orange-965 on 2025-08-14 00:35:58+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1896, an inventor came up with the idea of a coffin that would pass current through someone’s body once they laid down in it and rested their head on a switch. The device was intended to allow the suicide to be formally buried immediately afterwards.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Brutal_Deluxe_ on 2025-08-14 00:08:05+00:00.

Original Title: TIL when the UN's Nordic Battalion was sent to Bosnia in 1993 it disobeyed orders, broke rules of engagement, faked loss of communication to HQ, and became known as one the most trigger-happy peacekeeper units. This enabled them to achieve their mission objective: to protect civilians at all cost.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sue_Spiria on 2025-08-14 00:07:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NiceTraining7671 on 2025-08-13 22:24:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ill_Definition8074 on 2025-08-13 22:06:22+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Masanobu Tsuji, a Japanese parliament member and former World War II war criminal vanished without a trace in Laos in 1961. Despite his disappearance he held his seat until 1965 when his term ended.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Koffeinhier on 2025-08-13 20:40:49+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/thebigchil73 on 2025-08-13 21:05:20+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that pythons and anacondas don’t suffocate their prey. Constriction is much faster acting - blood to the brain stops within seconds, causing immediate unconsciousness and cardiac arrest moments later

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Supertack on 2025-08-13 21:01:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sanguinusshiboleth on 2025-08-13 19:47:27+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1900 the American Army in cuba was doing test to prove that Yellow Fever was passed by Mosquitoes via using them to infect willing test subjects until the experiements ended with the Death of Clara Maass, the only American and only woman test subject.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Super_Tangerine8250 on 2025-08-13 19:39:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/zahrul3 on 2025-08-13 18:01:07+00:00.

Original Title: TIL: In 2016, a guy in Jakarta saw login credentials being entered on a billboard. The very next day, he used those login credentials to hack into that particular billboard and used it to show Japanese porn to passing traffic for an entire 5 minutes.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/afeeney on 2025-08-13 16:31:55+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Disney considered roughly 50 ideas for dwarfs for the movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The rejected concepts, some of which made it to sketches, included Jumpy, Deafy, Dizzey, Hickey, Wheezy, Baldy, Gabby, Nifty, Sniffy, Swift, Lazy, Puffy, Stuffy, Tubby, Shorty and Burpy.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Toberoni on 2025-08-13 17:41:03+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/i_am_loki_ofasgard on 2025-08-13 16:18:29+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2004, prisoners in The Hole, a prison for Scientology executives, were forced to play a game of musical chairs to Queen's Greatest Hits, and the losers were kicked out of Scientology. The game turned violent after players began physically fighting each other.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Tuftymark6 on 2025-08-13 14:44:33+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Rhonda Belle Martin, an American woman executed for the murder of her fourth husband. An investigation started after her fifth husband (who was the son of her fourth) was poisoned. After her arrest she confessed to murdering her mother, two husbands, and three of her seven children.