Today I Learned (TIL)

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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.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/OatSoyLaMilk on 2025-08-11 19:45:35+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/LookAtThatBacon on 2025-08-11 19:31:34+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 1992, about 70 youth members of the Eclaireurs de France, a French scouting association, descended on the Cave of Mayrières supérieure with steel brushes to clean up graffiti, erasing two 15,000-year-old cave paintings of bison before realizing what they were.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ProductDad on 2025-08-11 18:57:41+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1977, two Soviet cosmonauts set a space endurance record by spending 96 days in orbit — but lost half their muscle mass, couldn’t walk for days, and needed to be carried out of their capsule.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Grumplogic on 2025-08-11 17:39:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/adembhdrl on 2025-08-11 08:03:19+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 168 BC, Roman ambassador Popillius Laenas met the Seleucid king Antiochus IV to stop the war with Egypt. But when the king sought time to consult, Popillius drew a circle around him and said: "Before leaving this circle, you will give me a reply that I can take back to the Roman Senate."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Blutarg on 2025-08-11 19:06:01+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/middleofaldi on 2025-08-11 17:14:41+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the economist Henry George, now largely forgotten, was once considered amongst most significant Americans of all time and over 100,000 people attended his funeral. His work inspired the Progressive Era and the board game Monopoly

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Objective_Horror1113 on 2025-08-11 15:47:28+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that during the COVID lockdown in April 2020, US oil prices went negative for the first time ever, falling to -$37.63 per barrel, as demand collapsed and storage filled up, forcing sellers to pay buyers to take oil off their hands.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/afeeney on 2025-08-11 17:12:50+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Yale graduate, champion golfer, and industrialist Eben Byers died of cancer after drinking 1,400 bottles of Radiathor, radioactive water sold as medicine. He had to be buried in a lead-lined coffin because of the high levels of radiation in his body (https://spark.iop.org/byers-lead-coffin)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/pocketbutter on 2025-08-11 16:32:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-08-11 14:24:13+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the 'personal injury lawsuit' evolved from a rare sight to a common occurrence during the Second Industrial Revolution at the end of the 19th century. In 1870, tort lawsuits made up only 4.2% of the contested caseload of New York City trial courts, but by 1910, that number had increased to 40.9%

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-08-11 14:20:56+00:00.

Original Title: TIL a man discovered a trick for predicting winning tickets of a Canadian Tic-Tac-Toe scratch-off game with 90% accuracy. However, after he determined that using it would be less profitable (and less enjoyable) than his consulting job as a statistician, he instead told the gaming commission about it

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/0khalek0 on 2025-08-11 13:38:10+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Ibn al-Haytham, a 10th-century scientist who changed how we understand the science of vision. He once pretended to be insane to escape execution and used his house arrest to write important works on optics.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/StrikingMango62 on 2025-08-11 12:32:48+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/zahrul3 on 2025-08-11 11:42:38+00:00.