Today I Learned (TIL)

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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.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/EcosDelPasadoNex on 2025-08-12 17:57:11+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the 'Glozel Affair', a highly controversial archaeological site discovered in 1920s France. It contained artifacts with an unknown script, sparking a decades-long 'archaeological war' over whether it was a genuine prehistoric find or an elaborate hoax.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/blahblahthrowawa on 2025-08-12 17:36:48+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Soghomon Tehlirian, who lost his entire family in the Armenian Genocide. In 1922 he shot and killed a former Ottoman Grand Vizier who orchestrated the genocide in broad daylight as part of an organized Armenian revenge plot.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/0khalek0 on 2025-08-12 17:20:06+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about French botanist Jeanne Baret, who while posing as a man, became the first female to circumnavigate the world in the 18th century. In 1766, she joined a French expedition, collected hundreds of plant specimens, and spent the majority of the voyage hiding her identity.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/me_myself_ai on 2025-08-12 17:11:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/altrightobserver on 2025-08-12 16:54:45+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell wrote the entirety of Black Hole Sun in his head while driving home from a recording studio in Woodinville, Washington, with the title coming from a news anchor Cornell heard while channel-surfing

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Doodlebug510 on 2025-08-12 14:27:36+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Star_____walker on 2025-08-12 10:11:40+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that William Trickett Smith, who testified against Pennsylvania Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer in the criminal case that led to Dwyer's infamous public suicide, was later convicted of conspiring to break his son out of prison after he had murdered his wife in Peru.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sanguinusshiboleth on 2025-08-11 21:14:35+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the United Arab Emirates were original the Trucial states under British control but two of the states remained independent from the UAE, Bahrain and Qatar, while one, Ras al-Khaimah, joined up later.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/dumbfuck on 2025-08-12 05:09:53+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/poop_monster35 on 2025-08-12 03:12:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SheepishSwan on 2025-08-12 02:16:30+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/OutrageousTerm7140 on 2025-08-12 01:39:47+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Despite his lead role as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006), Daniel Craig was reportedly awful at Poker. Le Chiffre actor Mads Mikkelsen recalled, “Everybody knew how to play poker actually around that table, except for one, Daniel. He had no clue. He sucked.”

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/P4t13nt_z3r0 on 2025-08-12 00:54:00+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Several months before Ed Sullivan, George Harrison performed with a local band in Eldorado, Illinois, a small town in the southern part of the state. This was the first public performance by a Beatle in the US

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DrCodfish on 2025-08-12 00:28:54+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DWJones28 on 2025-08-11 23:20:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/FamiliarBorder on 2025-08-11 21:57:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/johnsmithoncemore on 2025-08-11 20:23:54+00:00.