Today I Learned (TIL)

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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.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/weeef on 2025-08-01 00:05:41+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Boston experienced a bomb scare in 2007 triggered by LED ads featuring cartoon characters from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. The devices were mistaken for bombs & the response cost an estimated $2M.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/biebrforro on 2025-07-31 23:11:48+00:00.

Original Title: TIL when staying as a guest in Charles Dickens' house, Hans Christian Andersen requested that one of Dickens' sons give him a daily shave (he said that was customary when hosting male guests in Denmark). Dickens was weirded out and instead gave him a daily appointment at a nearby barbershop.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/LookAtThatBacon on 2025-07-31 21:21:01+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in the 1980s, doughnut shops in Southern California started using pink-colored boxes because they were cheaper than plain white boxes due to there being a large amount leftover of pink-dyed cardboard stock just sitting around, taking up warehouse space at restaurant supply company Westco.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/the_dj_zig on 2025-07-31 21:04:14+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/slhamlet on 2025-07-31 21:28:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-07-31 18:07:36+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Krystyna Chiger survived the Holocaust by hiding in Lviv’s sewers with her family. While there, her grandmother knit her a green woolen sweater to keep her warm, now displayed at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. They were helped by Leopold Socha, a Polish Catholic sewer worker.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GeoColo on 2025-07-31 18:37:57+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 1954 the real-life inspiration for Godzilla came from a U.S. thermonuclear test that was so powerful it irradiated a Japanese fishing boat 80 miles away, killing a crew member and triggering global outrage.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/One_Needleworker5218 on 2025-07-31 18:16:39+00:00.