Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/dumbfuck on 2025-08-09 21:03:20+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the Coronado Bridge over the San Diego bay is curved so that it can achieve a height tall enough for warships to pass under in spite of the closeness of the pieces of land it connects. The incline would be too steep without the extra distance.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sanguinusshiboleth on 2025-08-09 22:33:47+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Jonathan Walker, a railroad worker who became an abolitionist after working with slaves on the railroads - after getting caught, the slave trader, and United States Marshal, Eben Dorr branded his hand with SS (Slave stealer).

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/RetardCommunist on 2025-08-09 22:16:32+00:00.

Original Title: TIL traditional Haggis is banned in America for containing sheep lung. In 1971 it became illegal to consume lung. Haggis is no longer brought from UK to US. Haggis can still be made in USA, but not using sheep lungs.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-08-09 21:47:51+00:00.

Original Title: TIL PFC Edward H. Ahrens engaged a group of Japanese troops in melee combat alone & was found mortally wounded the next day with 13 dead around him. Credited with killing at least 3, his last words to his CO were "The bastards tried to come over me last night, I guess they didnt know I was a Marine"

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Rigelball69420 on 2025-08-09 11:03:59+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-08-09 19:12:46+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 1993 Bob Knight talked about recruiting Ivan Renko, a fake player he'd created to expose disreputable basketball recruiting experts. Though Renko didn't exist, several services listed him as a prospect with in-depth descriptions of his potential. Some "experts" even claimed to see film of him

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/trey0824 on 2025-08-09 19:45:21+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist who discovered the Chandrasekhar limit—the maximum mass (about 1.4 solar masses) a white dwarf star can have before collapsing into a neutron star or black hole. He won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/gixk on 2025-08-09 19:23:05+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the SS Californian, a ship near the Titanic before its sinking, sent an ice warning: "I say old man, we are stopped and surrounded by ice." The message was too loud, so the Titanic angrily responded, "Keep out! Shut up!" The Californian later saw flares during the sinking, but failed to help.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-08-09 19:12:28+00:00.

Original Title: TIL after Wal-Mart announced in 2014 that it would price-match select online retailers, many customers were able to buy a $400 PlayStation 4 for $90 by showing a Wal-Mart cashier a fake Amazon listing for that amount and requesting a price match.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/rampantradius on 2025-08-09 18:28:24+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that when William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, he named it Georgium Sidus (“George’s Star”) after King George III, but German astronomer Johann Elert Bode proposed “Uranus” to follow mythological tradition, which became the accepted name.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-08-09 18:16:24+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2019 a man in France weighed and scanned a PS4 as a piece of fruit at a self-serve checkout, paying €9 for the €340 console. He walked away unnoticed and later sold the item for €100. He was only caught because he returned to the same store the very next day. He was sentenced to four months.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Straight-Cloud2259 on 2025-08-09 17:29:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Gruselschloss on 2025-08-09 15:48:44+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2025-08-09 16:24:07+00:00.

Original Title: TIL early in his life, poet Lefkadio Hearn was abandonded by his father, then his mother and was adopted by his great aunt. Eventually, she abandoned him as well and send him to live with one of her former maids

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Archivist2016 on 2025-08-09 16:02:36+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/OutrageousTerm7140 on 2025-08-09 15:14:56+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Dougray Scott was originally cast as Wolverine in X-Men (2000). However, the filming of Mission: Impossible 2 went longer than expected, and he was injured in a motorbike accident while shooting the chase scene. He was forced to drop out of the project and was replaced by Hugh Jackman.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/deknegt1990 on 2025-08-09 14:02:41+00:00.

Original Title: TIL - Despite the importance of shooting in the NBA, there's never been more than 1 player in the 50-40-90 club in any given season, with there being only 14 such seasons since the introduction of the 3pt shot in 1979. Steve Nash is the only to have achieved more than 2 such seasons, with 4.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/EternalSnow05 on 2025-08-09 13:55:38+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the brown paper bag test is a term in the African American community to discriminate against darker skinned black people by comparing their skin tone to a brown paper bag. Many were barred from having access to resources and public spaces because of it.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/FearMyCock on 2025-08-09 12:07:07+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Sombra, a Colombian police dog so good at sniffing out drugs that drug cartels literally put a bounty on her head. She helped seize over 9 tons of cocaine, so they had to assign her bodyguards and relocate her for her own safety. Q

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/nuttybudd on 2025-08-09 09:25:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/keisermax34 on 2025-08-09 07:21:45+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SaberLover1000 on 2025-08-09 06:25:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-08-09 06:03:47+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Hedviga Golik, a Croatian nurse, died alone in her apartment in 1966. Her body remained undiscovered for 42 years until found in 2008 during renovations. Neighbors never reported her missing, and her electricity was paid by the building’s architect until shortly before her body was found.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/bros402 on 2025-08-09 05:27:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-08-09 05:09:05+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the 1522 Affair of the Sausages sparked the Reformation in Zürich when pastor Huldrych Zwingli defended eating sausage during Lent, arguing from Martin Luther’s doctrine of sola scriptura that Christians are free to fast or not, since the Bible does not forbid eating meat in Lent.