Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TransitionMany1810 on 2025-07-26 10:37:31+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Frederick Taylor is the father The Open Plan Office Layout. Inspired by factory floor designs, this layout involved crowding workers together in a large, open space, with managers often observing from private offices to improve efficiency.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Haunting_Tap_1541 on 2025-07-26 10:02:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SteO153 on 2025-07-26 06:27:36+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Mongolian race horses are ridden by kids aged 7 to 13, traditionally without saddles and child riders do not wear heavy clothing to be as light as possible. New rules require the jokey must wear protective gear, use racing saddles for increased safety, and be protected by accident insurance

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Pezhistory on 2025-07-26 05:02:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SoupDeliveryBot on 2025-07-26 04:55:51+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/nostalgic_angel on 2025-07-26 04:07:19+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the city of Harran, the city Dying Light set in, was a real city founded by Sumerians and their worship of Sumerian Moon God Sin survived til 11th century despite being the capital of several Islamic kingdoms. The city is largely abandoned after mongol conquest until 20th century.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TheCommonWren on 2025-07-26 03:16:55+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the poem Catullus 16 was considered so obscene that it's English translation was not fully published until the 20th century, nearly 2000 years after it's creation. The poem starts out saying "Pēdīcābō ego vōs et irrumābō" or in English, "I will sodomize you and face-fuck you"

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JaguarMajor7840 on 2025-07-26 02:19:29+00:00.

Original Title: TIL roly pollies (aka pill bugs or woodlouses) aren't insects but are instead crustaceans. They're closely related to lobsters and crabs, so they have gills that have adapted to extract oxygen from air instead of water.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/PrimaryInjurious on 2025-07-26 02:20:23+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AdInevitable5096 on 2025-07-26 01:24:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/wearing_moist_socks on 2025-07-26 00:51:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/d1t0m6 on 2025-07-25 23:46:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Blackraven2007 on 2025-07-25 22:37:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sanguinusshiboleth on 2025-07-25 21:03:37+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the Little Shop of Horrors was originally a story of a vampire food critic called ‘Cardula’, then rewritten as the story, called ‘Gluttony’, of a salad chef cooking customers before realising that would not past the Motion Picture Code so decide to make it about a man eating plant instead.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/sado475 on 2025-07-25 20:44:04+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that we humans have no sensors to detect low levels of oxygen unlike in movies where people gasp in oxygen depleted environments. Three seafarer were in killed in a chain locker room in a ship and the oxygen was depleted because of rust.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SamsonFox2 on 2025-07-25 20:24:31+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Superb-Roll2232 on 2025-07-25 19:49:26+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the original Fallout 1 & 2 source code was believed to have been destroyed (preventing official re-releases), but a developer secretly defied orders and preserved it. The code still exists today but can't be released without Bethesda's approval.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-07-25 18:44:09+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of the 69 emperors of the unified Roman Empire, from Augustus (14 CE) to Theodosius (395 CE), 43 emperors suffered violent death, that is 62%, died either by assassination (the most common mode of death), suicide or during combat with a foreign enemy of Rome.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Practical-Hand203 on 2025-07-25 17:08:43+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that only in 2012, Johannes Kepler, one of the founders of modern astronomy and modern science in general, was cleared from being a suspect in the possible murder of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, who employed him as an assistant at the time of his death.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ohdaynear on 2025-07-25 16:38:18+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/n_mcrae_1982 on 2025-07-25 15:56:01+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Speculation as to "who shot J.R.?" on the TV show "Dallas" in 1980 was so intense that former President Ford tried to get the answer out of one of the producers, and the Queen Mother tried to pry it out of actor Larry Hagman while he was visiting the UK, neither of which were successful.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/gullydon on 2025-07-25 14:45:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TheHeatIsHeated on 2025-07-25 14:37:35+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WaitForItTheMongols on 2025-07-25 14:16:11+00:00.

Original Title: TIL While the Wright Brothers flew in 1903, Gustave Whitehead claims to have flown in 1901. The Smithsonian signed an agreement with the Wright estate that if they acknowledge any flight before the Wright brothers, the Smithsonian loses the Wright Flyer.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/superanth on 2025-07-25 13:52:36+00:00.