Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NYstate on 2025-07-30 13:18:59+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in the first The Terminator movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger only has 17 lines which breaks down to a mere 58 words. With the $75,000 that Schwarzenegger reportedly got paid for the movie, that works out to about $1293 per word.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Not_so_ghetto on 2025-07-30 12:48:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/HG_Shurtugal on 2025-07-30 12:27:34+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SquareThings on 2025-07-30 11:59:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/res30stupid on 2025-07-30 10:27:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 on 2025-07-30 10:22:41+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that it wasn’t until 30 July 1956 that “In God We Trust” became the official U.S. motto. President Dwight Eisenhower signed a law passed by the 84th Congress, replacing “E Pluribus Unum” (Latin: “Out of many, one”), which has appeared on the Great Seal of the United States since 1782.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/explaingo on 2025-07-30 09:15:50+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2013, reporters dropped 192 wallets across 16 major cities to test honesty. Helsinki, Finland topped the list with 11/12 wallets returned, while Lisbon, Portugal ranked lowest: only 1 out of 12 wallets was returned

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/thecashblaster on 2025-07-30 02:08:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/mpocFr on 2025-07-30 06:37:17+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that ancient Greeks believed sneezing after sex could prevent pregnancy. The Greek physician Soranus of Ephesus declared in the 2nd century CE that women should hold their breath during sex, and sneeze afterwards to expel the semen.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CityRulesFootball on 2025-07-30 06:07:16+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that King Umberto I of Italy was eating in a restaurant when he noticed the owner was a near-exact physical double. It emerged that both were born on the same day, in the same town, and had married women with the same name. Umberto was shot dead on the day he learned the restaurateur was killed.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WinkWriggle on 2025-07-30 03:50:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/summitseeker91 on 2025-07-30 03:12:47+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that bananas are naturally radioactive due to potassium-40, and the small radiation they emit is so well-known that scientists use the "banana equivalent dose" as unit to explain everyday radiation exposure. Looks like bananas are used for scale in more than one way!

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SibyllaAzarica on 2025-07-30 02:54:24+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that "bile" bears are kept continuously in "crush cages" for years so bile can be surgically harvested. Some are caught as cubs and remain caged, without being able to stand, sit up or turn around, for 30 years. A significant proportion die due to stress, unskilled surgery or infection.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Alternative-Neck-705 on 2025-07-30 01:46:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Arstotzkanmoose on 2025-07-30 01:41:47+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of the ill-fated Zambian space programme in the 60's. It was led by Sergeant Edward Nkoloso. Afronauts would be rolled down a hill in a oil drum to simulate space. The goal was to have Zambia land on the Moon and Mars, convert Martians to Christianity and have Zambia become a interstellar power

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/absentmindedjwc on 2025-07-30 01:29:27+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/johnsmithoncemore on 2025-07-29 22:44:20+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/cololz1 on 2025-07-29 23:07:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SuperFlik on 2025-07-29 22:32:18+00:00.

Original Title: TIL The Beatles, as we know them today, were only together for 8 years (1962 to 1970). In this time they released a staggering 13 studio albums, totaling 213 songs, with over 100 more being released since their break up

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Mulliganasty on 2025-07-29 22:14:47+00:00.

Original Title: TIL, to dispel suspicions his product was low quality, Nathan Handwerker (of Nathan's Famous) hired white-jacketed college students to stand in front of his stand munching hot dogs to make customers think the dogs must be healthy if doctors are eating them.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/johnsmithoncemore on 2025-07-29 21:52:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/johnsmithoncemore on 2025-07-29 22:08:34+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1950 the actor Peter Butterworth, after being a POW during WWII, was rejected from playing a part in the film "The Wooden Horse" about the real escape he helped take place because: "he didn't look convincingly heroic or athletic enough".

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JoeyZasaa on 2025-07-29 21:53:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-07-29 20:51:48+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Olga Hepnarová (1951–1975) who was a Czech mass murderer who killed 8 people by driving a truck into a crowd in Prague. She was executed in 1975, the last woman to be executed in Czechoslovakia.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NuggetsReef on 2025-07-29 20:53:05+00:00.