Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Broad-Year-7205 on 2025-07-28 20:39:13+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that 17th‑century Persia built huge “pigeon towers” in order to generate a huge amount of fertiliser. Around the city of Isfahan, landlords constructed thousands of cylindrical mud‑brick towers whose only purpose was to attract wild pigeons. These cylindrical structures were purely for pigeons

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Alaska_Jack on 2025-07-28 19:26:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/mrinternetman24 on 2025-07-28 20:08:31+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Relative-Strike340 on 2025-07-28 18:54:28+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MrRabbit- on 2025-07-28 18:26:43+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Jim Corbett, a British-Indian hunter responsible for tracking and killing some of the most prolific man eating big cats in India. He later became an early proponent of the conservationist movement and encouraged fellow trackers to replace hunting with nature photography.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Bluest_waters on 2025-07-28 17:47:12+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Ghost (1990) was directed by Jerry Zucker famous for parody flicks like 'Airplaine!' and 'Top Secret!' The script writer initially refused to work with Jerry fearing he would turn it into a farce, but changed his mind after dining with him, saying he found Jerry to be "deeply philosophical".

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-07-28 17:31:48+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Piroska Jancsó-Ladányi (January 15, 1934 – December 12, 1954) was a Hungarian serial killer who murdered five teenage girls in Törökszentmiklós between 1953 and 1954 to satisfy her sexual urges. She was hanged in 1954 and remains one of Hungary’s most infamous killers.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/cupholdery on 2025-07-28 16:59:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/THE_TamaDrummer on 2025-07-28 17:04:45+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/primal_cortex on 2025-07-28 16:31:19+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AKA_Squanchy on 2025-07-28 16:28:18+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/rampantradius on 2025-07-28 16:25:15+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the Falkland Islands used to have a native wolf called the warrah that was so friendly and unafraid of humans it would literally swim out to greet boats. Settlers wiped it out in the 1800s because it was too friendly to run away. It was the first canid to go extinct in recorded history.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tn134 on 2025-07-28 16:14:20+00:00.

Original Title: TIL, Misirlou, a music that became famous on the western world with Pulp Fiction, is not actually a composition from Dick Dale, but has ancient origins on the ottoman empire and has been played and sang for ages. Misirlou actually means Egyptian Woman

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MrMojoFomo on 2025-07-28 15:53:40+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the laser sight used in The Terminator (1984) was a prototype that needed 10,000 volts to turn on. To use the weapon on screen, production hid a battery in Arnold Schwarzenegger's jacket and ran wires up the sleeve to attach to the sight

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/shqdowlss on 2025-07-28 15:44:42+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that there was no authentic record of Beethoven's date of birth, but the registry of his baptism on December 17, 1770, survives, and it was customary to have infants baptized within 24 hours of birth.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Blutarg on 2025-07-28 15:38:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/InmostJoy on 2025-07-28 14:39:28+00:00.

Original Title: TIL: According to an obscure medieval legend, the Countess Margaret of Henneberg, a Dutch noblewoman, was punished by God for insulting a poor beggar woman carrying twins and believing her to be an adulteress. The countess's punishment was to give birth to 365 minute children on Good Friday, 1276.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-07-28 15:31:16+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Ed Toutant lost at the $16K question on 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' because it was a flawed question. Therefore, he was invited back on & given a second chance, with the jackpot set back at $1.86m as it had been on his first appearance. In his return, he sailed to the end & won that jackpot.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/indy_110 on 2025-07-28 11:40:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Regular-Selection276 on 2025-07-28 13:55:52+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MrVernonDursley on 2025-07-28 13:30:55+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that when Pokémon was being localised for the US, Nintendo of America staff proposed redesigns for "cute" Pokémon, including a tiger-like Pikachu with "huge breasts". Satoru Iwata refused to submit the designs to Game Freak.

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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.