Today I Learned (TIL)

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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.

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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 19:33:04+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/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/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/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/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/Caraway_Lad on 2025-08-03 14:24:12+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Emil Abdelkader, Islamic leader of a resistance movement against French occupation in Algeria. He later prevented a massacre of Christians in Damascus, and France awarded him the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur for this act.

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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/passthebleachbroski on 2025-08-03 13:43:25+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/eggs_basket on 2025-08-03 12:58:34+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that at the "Icelandic Phallological Museum" obtained its first human penis(...)it was reduced to a greyish-brown shriveled mass that was pickled in a jar of formalin. The museum continues to search for "a younger and a bigger and better one."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Illustrious_Gap_8853 on 2025-08-03 12:21:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/kxnsqxz on 2025-08-03 12:13:45+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-08-03 11:44:46+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2003 a British woman's chastity belt set off a metal detector alarm at Athens airport. She explained that her husband made her put it on to ensure that she didn't have an affair during her brief trip to Greece. She was allowed to fly on to London on the pilot's responsibility.

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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/Sebastianlim on 2025-08-03 10:01:02+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/great_escape_fleur on 2025-08-03 07:10:11+00:00.