Today I Learned (TIL)

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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.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Grrerrb on 2025-08-13 00:01:53+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Robin Williams won the Grammy for best comedy album in 1989 for Good Morning, Vietnam, an album that featured 12 tracks by musical artists ranging from the Beach Boys to Louis Armstrong, and 7 monologues by Williams that totaled less than 5 minutes in duration overall.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Burritoman_209 on 2025-08-12 23:52:29+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/afeeney on 2025-08-12 23:44:45+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that among the major character Muppets on Sesame Street, Cookie Monster is the only one with five fingers. The other Muppets have four. (Kermit also has five, but he's not dedicated just to Sesame Street.)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/South_Gas626 on 2025-08-12 23:43:17+00:00.

Original Title: TIL George Lazenby had never acted before playing James Bond, but was instead a model and car salesman who lied about having acting experience. He showed up with a suit, Rolex, and haircut like Sean Connery’s, and slipped past a distracted receptionist to get into the audition.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CreeperRussS on 2025-08-12 23:33:03+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/PATM0N on 2025-08-12 22:49:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/FamiliarBorder on 2025-08-12 21:05:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SteO153 on 2025-08-12 19:27:06+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about pacu jawi, a traditional bull race in Sumatra. In the race, a jockey stands on a wooden plough loosely tied to a pair of bulls and holds them by their tails while the bulls cover about 60-250 metres (200-820 ft) of muddy track in a rice field

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/jjwinc68 on 2025-08-12 20:11:40+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the title of Stevie Nicks' Edge of Seventeen came from a Southern-accented phrase she misheard during a conversation with Tom Petty's wife - and she loved it so much she promised to write a song about it.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Delicious-Tell-6688 on 2025-08-12 20:10:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/boomer9745 on 2025-08-12 19:26:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/a3poify on 2025-08-12 18:45:10+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that record producer David Lord, who produced hits like Peter Gabriel's Shock the Monkey and The Korgis' Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime, was convicted in 2015 for running a brothel out of his house

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/EssexGuyUpNorth on 2025-08-12 18:39:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/OatSoyLaMilk on 2025-08-12 18:37:32+00:00.

Original Title: TIL at the Battle of Wilson's Wharf in 1864, Confederate troops attacked African American troops for the first time, outnumbering them more than two to one, and lost. The Confederate commander (Robert E. Lee's nephew) was so embarrassed he made up that the Union attacked with six gunboats.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/xxwarlorddarkdoomxx on 2025-08-12 18:35:04+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of the Oster Conspiracy, a plot to overthrow Hitler when he began WWII...by invading Czechoslovakia. The conspiracy, which included many high-ranking public and military officials, fell apart after Britain and France forced Czechoslovakia to agree to German demands.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Aromatic_Opposite100 on 2025-08-12 18:33:02+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/UndyingCorn on 2025-08-12 18:31:04+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Since the Foreign Secretary was in transit to Moscow when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill was the one who drafted the UK’s declaration of war. He later wrote "Some people did not like this ceremonial style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2025-08-12 18:28:26+00:00.

Original Title: TIL on 2 November 82 B.C Sulla held a senate meeting at the temple of Bellona. While this meeting was taking place, his soldiers were ordered to massacre prisoners from the recent battle of the Colline gate in a building nearby, close enough that the senators could hear the screams

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DataGuru314 on 2025-08-12 18:21:35+00:00.