Today I Learned (TIL)

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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.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MrMojoFomo on 2025-08-13 14:53:02+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, James Brown gave a free citywide televised concert in Boston Garden in which he pleaded for the black community to remain calm and non-violent. The effort was largely successful, and Brown was credited with saving Boston

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sweet_Fix2346 on 2025-08-13 14:45:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/excaliburcalibre on 2025-08-13 14:11:22+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that before the fatal crash of Concorde flight 4590 - caused when a tyre blowout on takeoff ignited the fuel tanks — there had already been 57 recorded Concorde tire blowouts during takeoff - including a near crash in 1979

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/innergamedude on 2025-08-13 14:31:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/0khalek0 on 2025-08-13 12:35:05+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1989, a rogue freight train derailed in San Bernardino, California, killing four people. Two weeks later, a pipeline damaged during the cleanup exploded in the same neighbourhood, killing two more people.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Left-Head-6805 on 2025-08-13 12:24:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/0khalek0 on 2025-08-13 12:21:34+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Catharine Macaulay, the forgotten celebrity historian of the 1700s who wrote an eight-volume history of England from a republican perspective, ate dinner with George Washington, and became a hero to early feminists. She then vanished from mainstream history.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 on 2025-08-13 11:59:10+00:00.

Original Title: TIL South Park started with cardboard cut-outs, inspired by Terry Gilliam’s Monty Python style. The 1997 pilot - "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" - took three months to animate. Today, episodes are finished in a few days with computer animation, letting the show parody current events in real time.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Flubadubadubadub on 2025-08-13 11:36:05+00:00.

Original Title: TIL That the first documented 'hysteria' reaction to a music performance, wasn't with Elvis, who is most often remembered as the initiator, but was Frank Sinatra in 1944 when 30000 fans took over Times Square NY in what became known as 'The Columbus Day Riot'.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JaseAndrews on 2025-08-13 10:23:34+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Llívia, a town in a Spanish exclave surrounded by France. Because of a technicality in a treaty signed in 1659, that transferred only "villages" in the Pyrenees to France, Llívia, which was a "town", remains under Spanish control.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/trubol on 2025-08-13 09:12:26+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the line where tourists take photos at the Royal Observatory Greenwich marks the historic Prime Meridian. Since 1988 the current standard prime meridian is 102.5m off the original line, hence if you look at your GPS on your phone at the historic line it won't show exactly zero degrees longitude

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/rampantradius on 2025-08-13 08:09:41+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Intrusive sleep is a phenomenon often seen in people with ADHD, where sudden extreme drowsiness or sleep occurs when they lose interest in a task. This happens because the brain abruptly disengages from the uninteresting activity, causing a rapid drop in alertness.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SaberLover1000 on 2025-08-13 07:41:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/UnlikelyOpposite7478 on 2025-08-13 07:09:20+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Tritium, vital for fusion fuel like in ITER, is extremely rare with only ~20 kg made yearly from CANDU type heavy-water reactors. It costs about $30 000 per gram, so most fusion projects plan to breed it from lithium due to huge supply shortages.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-08-13 05:16:25+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 91, a Greek receipt dated 13 Oct 187 for wet nursing wages. Written by Chosion, son of Sarapion, it records payment of 400 drachmae to Tanenteris, daughter of Thonis, through the bank at the Serapeum. Found in Oxyrhynchus, it’s now kept at Royal Holloway College in Egham.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/lemontime2001 on 2025-08-13 04:58:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/VPR2 on 2025-08-13 01:08:29+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in the 60s, the Metropolitan Police in London removed about 90 illegally-parked cars a day by simply driving them to the pound. Their vehicle removal units carried boxes of keys that fitted about 90% of vehicles, so towing was only necessary in the minority of cases.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/zahrul3 on 2025-08-13 03:40:59+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the death of Akbar Salubiro in 2017 was the first fully documented and confirmed case of a man being eaten by a python, due to videos and pictures of his body being extracted from the python's stomach.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Flubadubadubadub on 2025-08-13 03:01:05+00:00.

Original Title: TIL That during WW2, there was an 'official' bribery and slush fund used to pay senior german officers amongst others. It was known as 'Konto 5' and disbursements were made at the direct orders of Hitler. By the end of the war it was paying out about 40M Reichsmarks per year.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Black_Magic_M-66 on 2025-08-13 02:19:37+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the Krill Paradox. Krill's chief predator are whales and as they've declined through hunting krill numbers have also paradoxically declined. Turns out, whale poo is a natural fertilizer for plankton (whale dung contains 10m times iron than sea water) which in turn are fed upon by krill.