Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/spacecadet06 on 2025-08-03 19:34:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/OutrageousTerm7140 on 2025-08-04 01:28:22+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Steven Spielberg originally requested to use M&Ms for E.T., but Mars responded, saying they needed to see the script before agreeing. Not wanting to share anything about the movie, Spielberg switched to Reese’s Pieces.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-08-03 19:33:04+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Gemma Hayter (1982–2010) , a disabled woman from Warwickshire, was tortured and murdered in 2010 by people she believed were her friends. Her death was later identified as a case of "mate crime," where vulnerable individuals are exploited by those they trust.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Illustrious_Gap_8853 on 2025-08-03 19:16:54+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/20127010603170562316 on 2025-08-03 23:14:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/rocklou on 2025-08-03 22:54:01+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the 1922 Nosferatu movie was ordered by court to have all copies of it destroyed, Bram Stoker's widow considered it too alike to Dracula and sued over the adaptation's copyright violation. Some copies survived and Nosferatu went on to become one of the most influential horror films of all time.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-08-03 22:27:49+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1656, Swedish maid Karin Svensdotter claimed she had seven children with the King of the Fairies, who took them to his realm. Declared bewitched by Satan, her church was told to pray for her. After her family gave her a silver cross, the faerie man reportedly stopped visiting.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Flubadubadubadub on 2025-08-03 22:38:47+00:00.

Original Title: TIL That General Hussein Kamel al-Majid and his brother General Saddam Kamel, who were cousins of Saddam Hussein and married to two of his daughters, defected to Jordan in 1995 to work with the West. In 1996 Saddam convinced them to come home as all was forgiven, they were both dead inside 3 days.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/South_Gas626 on 2025-08-03 22:12:36+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ShadowsSheddingSkin on 2025-08-03 21:02:44+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/jacknunn on 2025-08-03 13:47:43+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in Western Europe in the 19th century, women swimmers were encouraged to wear a bathing gown made of wool, with weights sewn into the hems so that they would not rise up in the water. Such measures to protect "modesty" were common in the era when women began competing in modern Olympic swimming

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/saintpetejackboy on 2025-08-03 20:13:28+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Overall-Register9758 on 2025-08-03 19:19:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-08-03 19:11:28+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the Sagamihara stabbings occurred on 26 July 2016 in Sagamihara, Japan. Nineteen people were killed and twenty-six injured at a care home for disabled people. The attacker, former employee Satoshi Uematsu, surrendered and was sentenced to death. It is Japan’s deadliest mass stabbing.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/exophades on 2025-08-03 11:34:59+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that about 216 streets, squares and buildings in France were named after Arnaud Beltrame, a lieutenant colonel in the French Gendarmerie who was murdered at Trèbes (2018) after having exchanged himself for a hostage, saving her life.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-08-03 19:02:50+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2023 a 35-year-old woman died from water intoxication after drinking just 64 ounces of water (about 1.9L) in roughly 20 minutes, which caused her brain to suffer severe swelling. She drank it while on vacation with her family because she started to feel very lightheaded & extremely thirsty.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-08-03 18:38:04+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that "Got the morbs" was a slang phrase or euphemism used in the Victorian era. The phrase describes a person afflicted with temporary melancholy or sadness. The term was defined in James Redding Ware's 1909 book Passing English of the Victorian Era.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/flamingoooz on 2025-08-03 18:06:00+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the floodgates principle is a legal principle sometimes applied by judges to restrict or limit the right to make claims for damages because of a concern that permitting a claimant to recover in such situations might open the metaphorical “floodgates” to large numbers of claims and lawsuits

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Vegetable-Orange-965 on 2025-08-03 17:44:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/gullydon on 2025-08-03 16:59:10+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Octavian, the adopted son of Julius Caesar that would later become emperor Augustus, ordered the killing of the only known biological son of Caesar (with Cleopatra) named Caesarion (the last Egyptian pharaoh), following the advice of his companion who said "Too many Caesars is not good".

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sebastianlim on 2025-08-03 10:01:02+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-08-03 16:30:47+00:00.

Original Title: TIL producer Brian Grazer had doubts about making 8 Mile with Eminem when Em was reportedly having an issue with Elton John. However, Tom Hanks convinced him to not drop the movie by responding, "Are you crazy? That’s another character...That’s Slim Shady. He doesn’t even take it seriously".

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/bruin396 on 2025-08-03 15:38:40+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Cleopatra Selene II (40 BCE - ca. 5 BCE), the only daughter of Greek Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra VII and Roman Triumvir Mark Antony, who as Queen of Mauretania was a powerful female ruler until her untimely death during a lunar eclipse at the age of 35.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/FrontBrick8048 on 2025-08-03 04:26:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GDW312 on 2025-08-03 03:52:36+00:00.