Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Farry_Bite on 2025-07-28 13:27:49+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/israelilocal on 2025-07-28 10:53:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/kim_putin_donald on 2025-07-28 12:52:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Own-Bullfrog7362 on 2025-07-28 04:26:05+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/alrightfornow on 2025-07-28 11:35:09+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/cookingboy on 2025-07-28 11:00:44+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Pozzolana on 2025-07-28 10:49:43+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2009 Canadian transport minister John Baird sent a text saying “Thatcher has died”. This information soon reached Canadian PM Stephen Harper with officials making multiple calls to Downing Street and Buckingham Palace before it was later confirmed that Thatcher was the name of Baird’s cat.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WavesAndSaves on 2025-07-28 03:11:33+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Tim22Mt on 2025-07-28 06:54:23+00:00.

Original Title: TIL two rival scientists in the 1800s waged a petty, sabotage-filled war over who could discover more dinosaurs. They blew up dig sites, bribed workers, and ruined each other’s careers—yet still named over 130 species. It’s called the Bone Wars.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/A10Ryan on 2025-07-28 04:21:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/strwht12 on 2025-07-28 05:07:05+00:00.

Original Title: TIL if you shuffle a pack of cards, it's likely that you have come up with an ordering of cards that is unique in human history. In fact in a 52 pack of card, there are 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 possibilities.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/1000LiveEels on 2025-07-28 04:16:47+00:00.

Original Title: TIL after frontier bandit Big Nose George was lynched from a telephone pole, a doctor turned his skin into shoes, a medical bag, and a coin purse. That same doctor was later elected Governor of Wyoming and wore the skin shoes to his inauguration.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/kaze2295 on 2025-07-28 03:32:32+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Ken Allen, a Bornean orangutan nicknamed The Hairy Houdini, escaped his zoo enclosure multiple times using tools, trained other orangutans to join him, and once threw rocks at his rival Otis after breaking out.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-07-28 03:15:40+00:00.

Original Title: TIL an analysis of 5559 instances of sudden death found that 34 (0.6%) had reportedly occurred during sex; two other studies had similarly low rates of sudden coital death. Of those who died during coitus, over 80% were men, & the majority (75%) were cheating on their spouse with a younger partner.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-07-28 03:11:16+00:00.

Original Title: TIL after Leo Gao saw that his bank accidentally deposited $10m into his account, he fled New Zealand with his gf & stayed on the run for 2 yrs before being caught. He was paroled after 16 months despite the court assuming that Gao controlled & would have access to the $3.7m that was never recovered

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ScheduledTroll on 2025-07-28 01:44:16+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SaberLover1000 on 2025-07-28 01:21:39+00:00.

Original Title: TIL For decades sideshow performers showcased a real deceased man in their show "The Outlaw Who Would Never Be Captured Alive". The man in question was killed in a shootout in 1911. He was displayed in this show until 1976 when he was rediscovered, and finally laid to rest in 1977.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JIN_HO_KWA_4896 on 2025-07-28 00:02:41+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 1942/WW2 the Japanese army made Allied POWs sign a pledge not to escape. Most Australians POWs signed "Ned Kelly", an infamous australian outlaw, knowing that Japanese administrators who were not familar with english names.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Scienscatologist on 2025-07-27 23:47:33+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MrMiracle27 on 2025-07-27 16:36:59+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that until it closed in 2012 amid animal welfare concerns, Wildlife Wonderland Park near Bass, Victoria, was home to the Giant Earthworm Museum. Inside the worm-shaped museum, visitors could crawl through a magnified replica of a worm burrow and a simulated worm's stomach.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/OccludedFug on 2025-07-27 21:45:53+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Madmystic94 on 2025-07-27 21:30:33+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry was asked to write a series called Riverboat, set in 1860s Mississippi. When he discovered that the producers wanted no black people on the show, he argued so much with them that he lost the job

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Senaurus on 2025-07-27 21:21:38+00:00.

Original Title: TIL In 1945 a mix of American soldiers and Filipino guerillas attacked a POW camp behind Japanese lines, an American fighter flew over the camp making noise to distract the guards, in the end the Japanese lost hundreds to only two allied deaths and over 500 prisoners were rescued.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/primal_cortex on 2025-07-27 20:10:57+00:00.

Original Title: TIL In 1854, Clarissa Davis, an enslaved woman, escaped from Virginia by disguising herself as a man and hiding in a box near a steamship furnace. After 75 days in hiding, she endured the perilous journey to Philadelphia with help from an ally onboard. She was later assisted and able met her family.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/marhaus1 on 2025-07-27 19:44:28+00:00.