Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Advanced_Bug2041 on 2025-08-04 11:38:09+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Belgian Blue cattle are super muscular cows due to a myostatin-blocking mutation. Despite their bulk, they have thin skin and small bones, making them look even more ripped. Their meat is very lean and yields up to 40% more edible muscle than regular cattle.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Loki-L on 2025-08-04 11:28:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/nuttybudd on 2025-08-04 10:37:05+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the only civilian aircraft authorized to fly in and around New York City on September 12, 2001 was a single engine Cessna Skyhawk, tail number N9344L, used to perform aerial photography of the area.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Double-decker_trams on 2025-08-04 10:29:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/paulKigozi on 2025-08-04 10:24:59+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Flubadubadubadub on 2025-08-04 09:00:23+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-08-04 07:05:13+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Alphonse Le Gastelois, a man from Jersey who lived alone on a remote reef for 14 years after being wrongly accused of child assault. He was ostracized and feared for his life. The real attacker, Edward Paisnel, was caught in 1971 after 11 years of terror.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-08-04 06:44:53+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the Tiger Mask donation phenomenon in Japan. It began in 2010 when someone left ten school backpacks at a child center, signed "Naoto Date" after a manga wrestler raised in an orphanage. Since then, copycats have donated toys, food, and money to children's facilities across Japan.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/dumbfuck on 2025-08-04 04:27:14+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/dumbfuck on 2025-08-04 04:16:20+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Necessary-Bath4438 on 2025-08-03 22:33:37+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that until 1827, Bachelors of Arts (BAs) students at Oxford University who sought to become Masters of Arts had to swear an oath never to be reconciled with Henry Symeonis. This practice lasted for 550 years, during which Henry’s identity remained unknown until his rediscovery in 1912.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BelieveInTheShield on 2025-08-04 03:59:59+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/earthbound_misfit21 on 2025-08-03 23:49:35+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/OmegaThree3 on 2025-08-03 23:32:34+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/fanau on 2025-08-03 22:56:47+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/tyrion2024 on 2025-08-03 21:42:41+00:00.

Original Title: TIL demand for the five July dates of Michael Jackson's Bad tour in 1988 in London at Wembley Stadium exceeded 1.5 million, enough to fill the 72,000-capacity venue 20 times. Jackson went on to perform seven sold-out shows at Wembley for a total audience of 504,000.

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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/spacecadet06 on 2025-08-03 19:34:47+00:00.

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