Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ghosts_of_Bordeaux on 2025-07-27 15:26:26+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Leo Hirschfield, the Austrian-American inventor of both the Tootsie Roll & the first commercially successful gelatin dessert mix, committed suicide in 1923 after contracting a chronic illness and his beloved wife was committed, leaving a note simply stating "Sorry, but could not help it."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Necessary-Rip-6612 on 2025-07-27 13:38:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DanielCallaghan5379 on 2025-07-27 13:13:53+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/aadamblanco on 2025-07-27 12:54:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/gullydon on 2025-07-27 12:19:07+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the Irish Elk, a deer type that went extinct around 7,700 years ago, had the largest antlers of any known deer (span 3.5 metres across), which developed because female elk chose their mates based on antler size. In the end, alongside human hunting, it contributed to the species extinction.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/a3poify on 2025-07-27 09:57:00+00:00.

Original Title: TIL jazz singer Jimmy Scott suffered from Kallmann syndrome, which stunted his puberty leading to his height being limited to 4'11 (until the age of 37, when he suddenly grew 8 inches) and his unusually high, androgynous voice.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/kaze2295 on 2025-07-27 08:10:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Oturanthesarklord on 2025-07-27 10:38:48+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1996, Mcdonald's tried to sue the owner of a family owned restaurant located in Fairbury, Illinois that had opened in 1956 called "McDonald's Family Restaurant" and lost, ironically the owner of "McDonald's Family Restaurant" is named Ronald McDonald.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/strangelove4564 on 2025-07-27 08:38:34+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the longtime BBC "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" theme song was the 1975 Eagles track "Journey of the Sorcerer". Glenn Frey and Don Henley, preferring a stadium rock sound, didn't want the song on their album. Writer and guitarist-banjoist Bernie Leadon left the group that year.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/FearMyCock on 2025-07-27 08:01:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CreeperRussS on 2025-07-27 07:37:30+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BottyFlaps on 2025-07-27 06:35:43+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1991 in County Durham, England, a TV crew was filming a confrontation between council officials and a land owner, when the land owner shot and killed a council planning officer. The TV reporter also got shot in the arm and a police officer got shot in the thigh.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/iamveryDerp on 2025-07-27 05:59:55+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Douglas Adams conceived the hitchhikes guide while “lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck… Inebriated beneath the swirling stars, clutching a copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe, Adams decided that someone should devise a similar guidebook to the whole of the Milky Way.”

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Rigamortus2005 on 2025-07-27 05:36:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Jaw709 on 2025-07-27 04:21:16+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NewlyDiscoverdMe on 2025-07-27 01:14:46+00:00.

Original Title: TIL At least 30 Million people in China live in cave homes, called yaodongs; because they are warm in the winter and cool in the summer, some people find caves more desirable than concrete homes in the city.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DTPVH on 2025-07-27 00:33:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TribalEirie on 2025-07-27 00:40:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GDW312 on 2025-07-27 00:08:27+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Tootsie_r0lla on 2025-07-26 23:43:42+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Aphantasia is a characteristic some people have related to how their mind and imagination work. Having it means you don’t have visual imagination, keeping you from picturing things in your mind. People often don’t realize they have it, and it’s not a disability or medical condition.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TransitionMany1810 on 2025-07-26 23:32:22+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1924, top light bulb manufacturers formed the Phoebus Cartel to secretly shorten bulb lifespans to only 1,000 hours - making us buy light bulbs more often and paving the way for planned obsolescence

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-07-26 23:17:23+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2010 Eminem reported a high score in Donkey Kong of 465,800 with photo proof, which would have put him within the Top 30 worldwide at the time. As of March 2023, his high score ranked 191st in the world.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Paulfradk on 2025-07-26 23:14:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-07-26 23:16:40+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 1981 Tom Petty voiced his objections when he found out that MCA was going to list his album 'Hard Promises' at $9.98 instead of the usual list price of $8.98. After Petty threatened to name the album 'Eight Ninety Eight' or to even withhold it entirely, MCA decided against raising the price.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Tootsie_r0lla on 2025-07-26 23:10:03+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Anendophasia refers to the absence of an internal monologu or inner voice. While not a clinical diagnosis, it's a concept that describes a specific way of thinking where some individuals don't experience the constant stream of self-talk that many people take for granted.