Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-08-11 06:38:34+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2010 a 12-year-old girl was arrested in her NY junior high school after she reportedly doodled the words "I love my friends Abby and Faith" in erasable marker on her desk. She was handcuffed and taken to the local precinct, where she was locked in a room for two hours before being released.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-08-11 05:08:38+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the Burger King commercial starring a 5-yr-old Sarah Michelle Gellar was the first to say a competitor by name when she says, "McDonald's makes their burgers with 20% less meat than Burger King. Unbelievable!" She also wasn't allowed to eat at McD's after she was named in its lawsuit against BK.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/dcoughl02 on 2025-08-11 03:57:22+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about a woman named Flo Hyman (actual name) who was very tall through her life and worked to become an ‘84 Olympic medalist in women’s volleyball. Later in life, she collapsed and died on the court at the age of 31, and was determined to have been undiagnosed of Marfan Syndrome.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/naturallin on 2025-08-11 03:36:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/South_Gas626 on 2025-08-11 03:27:57+00:00.

Original Title: TIL In 1961, after voice actor Mel Blanc was in a severe car accident, he was in a coma and wouldn’t speak. Doctors eventually tried asking about his characters. When asked how Bugs Bunny was, he said, “Eh, just fine Doc.” Asked about Tweety, he replied, “I tawt I taw a puddy tat.”

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Giff95 on 2025-08-11 02:53:28+00:00.

Original Title: TIL John Williams used an identical music cue in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones," as he composed them around the same time and both films were released in 2002

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/OutrageousTerm7140 on 2025-08-11 03:00:13+00:00.

Original Title: TIL actor Benedict Cumberbatch once stopped his Uber near Baker Street when he saw a cyclist being attacked by four men trying to steal his bike. He jumped out, physically pulled the assailants off the cyclist, and shouted at them until they fled. The cyclist was unharmed.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Outside_Reserve_2407 on 2025-08-11 00:40:11+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Henry Ford's revolutionary assembly line for the Model T was inspired in part by the "disassembly lines" of the Chicago meat packing industry, where animal carcasses moved along a conveyor belt and workers at stations specialized in taking off one part of the animal

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ansyhrrian on 2025-08-11 00:16:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ravens55 on 2025-08-11 00:06:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Princess_Of_Thieves on 2025-08-10 22:49:48+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Shridhar Chillal, a man who didn't cut his nails for 66 years. From age 16, he let his left hands nails grow as a challenge. They eventually reached a total length of 909.6cm before, in 2018, he had them cut. He earned the Guinness World Record for "Longest fingernails on a single hand ever"​

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-08-10 23:01:02+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Shige Sakakura was a Japanese baby farmer and serial killer who, together with her accomplices Tsuta Oki and Naka Ikai, murdered around 200 infants between 1898 and 1913. Their crimes were uncovered when a geisha was denied access to her child and reported them. All three were hanged in 1915.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ultach on 2025-08-10 22:15:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/iydx_7737 on 2025-08-10 18:17:11+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-08-10 21:51:13+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Yaeko Taguchi, a 22-year-old Japanese mother of two, was abducted by North Korea in 1978 after leaving her kids at daycare. Forced to teach Japanese to spy Kim Hyon-hui, later involved in the Korean Air Flight 858 bombing, Kim said Taguchi often wept for her children. Her fate remains unknown.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/USAJULY4TH1776 on 2025-08-10 19:58:05+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/LookAtThatBacon on 2025-08-10 20:03:11+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/PrestigiousBrit on 2025-08-10 19:18:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/OtherwiseGanache6998 on 2025-08-10 18:19:32+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that technically speaking, the cashew nut is not really a nut, but a thick shelled seed. Inside the shell layer is a toxic resin. If any of the resin gets on the nut, the nut becomes inedible. Thus, the shell must be opened properly & steamed to cook

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DreamIndependent8312 on 2025-08-10 19:15:24+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Japanese courtesans (oiran) weren’t just sex workers, they were elite artists trained in poetry, music, and tea ceremony, and “considered the height of fashion, and many women imitated their hairstyles and clothing.“

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/smrad8 on 2025-08-10 17:35:14+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Egyptian pharaohs would sacrifice and entomb servants to serve them in death. Humans were later replaced with “shabti,” clay figurines who were believed to animate in the tomb. Some shabti were buried with baskets and hoes to do the dead’s chores.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/rezikiel on 2025-08-10 16:49:09+00:00.

Original Title: TIL During the Cold War, an early version of the American AIM-9 Sidewinder missile lodged itself into an enemy jet without exploding. The Russians were able to recover it after landing and create a reverse-engineered copy

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ill_Definition8074 on 2025-08-10 16:29:13+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Despite how her work is often interpreted, Georgia O'Keeffe consistently denied that her artwork was meant to represent female genitalia, stating that "When people read erotic symbols into my paintings, they're really talking about their own affairs."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/silentquizzer on 2025-08-10 14:40:31+00:00.

Original Title: TIL George Mallory, the famous mountaineer who disappeared on Mount Everest in 1924, his body found 75 years later. It was remarkably preserved & in a state of "almost perfect preservation" due to the cold, but his camera was never found, leaving the mystery of whether he reached the summit unsolved

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/OutrageousTerm7140 on 2025-08-10 15:13:19+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Dick van Dyke called his own accent while playing Bert in Mary Poppins "the most atrocious cockney accent in the history of cinema". He also recalls that, at the time of filming, he had no idea his accent was so atrocious. None of the cast or crew ever said a word to him about it.