Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/VirtualProtector on 2025-08-01 16:23:34+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/grrrsandpurrrs on 2025-08-01 17:30:01+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TheClungerOfPhunts on 2025-08-01 17:28:09+00:00.

Original Title: TIL, The most abundant animal species on Earth is the nematode, also known as the roundworm. There are approximately 57 billion nematodes for every human on Earth. They make up about 4/5 of all animal life.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-08-01 16:52:58+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that from the 15th century to the early 20th century, female rowers called Roddarmadam operated water taxis in Stockholm, ferrying people between islands. They were famed for their blunt manner and coarse language. A visitor in 1787 praised them as “Good women who row like devils!”

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JIMMY_RUSTLING_9000 on 2025-08-01 16:51:23+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-08-01 16:33:43+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Sarah "Crazy Sally" Mapp was an English lay bonesetter in the early 1700s, known for performing impressive bone-setting acts in Epsom and London. She learned the practice from her father and gained fame as a woman working in a male-dominated profession.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/shaka_sulu on 2025-08-01 16:14:50+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the Agricultural Bank of China robbery, where two bank managers stole US$4.3M to buy lottery tickets, hoping to win enough to repay the theft and keep the rest. They won only US$12.7K, fled, were caught, and eventually executed.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Previous_Knowledge91 on 2025-08-01 15:23:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-08-01 15:07:30+00:00.

Original Title: TIL a 60cm Humboldt penguin escaped from Tokyo Sea Life Park by jumping over a rock wall twice its height before slipping through a gap in the fence that surrounded the park. Despite 30 confirmed sightings, the penguin eluded capture for 82 days before eventually being picked up near a river.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-08-01 15:04:20+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2009 a 13-ft python in Kenya wrapped itself around Ben Nyaumbe and dragged him up a tree after he accidentally stepped on it. A 3-hour struggle in the tree between the two ensued, however after he bit the snake on the tail, he managed to call for help on his phone and was eventually rescued.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/FreeTrialLink on 2025-08-01 13:46:09+00:00.

Original Title: TIL an Australian man named Bill Morgan was declared dead for 14 minutes, survived, then won a car from a scratch-off ticket and while reenacting the moment for a news crew, scratched another ticket and won $250,000 on camera.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sh00ter80 on 2025-08-01 12:58:49+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Electronic-Loquat497 on 2025-08-01 08:05:51+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/consulent-finanziar on 2025-08-01 08:55:27+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Double-decker_trams on 2025-08-01 08:14:39+00:00.

Original Title: TIL because of increasing standards of hygiene the number and size of holes in Swiss cheese declined in the 2000s. In 2025 the Swiss Federal Administrative Court approved the addition of hay flower powder to the milk during cheesemaking just for the creation of cheese holes.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/jacknunn on 2025-08-01 06:18:23+00:00.

Original Title: TIL all the Chinese languages share a common written language (wenyan), but it has no single standard of pronunciation. The spoken varieties of Chinese are mutually unintelligible to their respective speakers, including Mandarin, Wu, Min; Gan (Kan), Hakka (Kejia), Xiang; and Cantonese (Yue)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/PandaCheese2016 on 2025-08-01 07:28:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/big_hole_energy on 2025-08-01 05:36:33+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the reason we know how much water is in a human body is because in WWII, Japan would take POWs, weigh them, then bake them alive until the corpse had no moisture left, then weigh the remains.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/minaminonoeru on 2025-08-01 04:21:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/saintsimon101 on 2025-08-01 03:48:26+00:00.

Original Title: Today I learned country music legend John Prine was 'discovered' by movie critic Roger Ebert, who wrote him a glowing review in the Chicago Tribune after wandering into a bar where he was playing. At the time, Prine was a working mailman.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/altrightobserver on 2025-08-01 01:48:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/jaytee319 on 2025-08-01 01:16:18+00:00.

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

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/RadishRocket on 2025-07-31 23:36:05+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Physical_Hamster_118 on 2025-07-31 22:56:12+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 1860 that a French man by the name of Antoine de Tounens went to the Araucanía region, proclaimed the Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia, and became its first and only king. The country only lasted 2 years as the Chilean authorities occupied the country and arrested him.