Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Successful_Wafer3099 on 2025-07-22 02:26:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/clee214 on 2025-07-22 01:35:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/LookAtThatBacon on 2025-07-21 23:17:13+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the value of a taxi medallion (permit allowing a taxicab to operate) in New York City peaked in 2013 at over $1 million. By 2019, medallions were being sold for as low as $136,000. Since many cab drivers took out loans to buy when values were high, many have been forced to declare bankruptcy.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/dogstarchampion on 2025-07-21 20:53:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JEBV on 2025-07-21 20:42:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ForgottenShark on 2025-07-21 19:07:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/lostsoulles on 2025-07-21 18:34:14+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Lew Ayres, who played Paul Bäumer in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), was a WWII conscientious objector which Erich Maria Remarque, the novel's author, disapproved of. He stated: “I am very sorry. I didn’t expect it to have an effect like this. I think we all should fight Hitlerism."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/dayofthedead204 on 2025-07-21 17:39:55+00:00.

Original Title: TIL The movie, "The Land before Time" was planned to have no dialogue. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas wanted the film to be similar to "The Rite of Spring" in Disney's Fantasia. But the idea was abandoned to make the film appealing to children.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DrDMango on 2025-07-21 17:35:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NewerEddo on 2025-07-21 17:24:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/aloysiuslamb on 2025-07-21 17:03:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sanguinusshiboleth on 2025-07-21 16:19:49+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of the Gromyko Commission, which although there was wide spread support for Crimean Tartars to return to their homeland, the commission decided that there was no "no basis" for the Crimean Tartar’s return to their homeland.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/oleyellabrix on 2025-07-21 15:43:09+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Eddie Eagan, the only person to win gold at a summer and winter olympics in different events (in boxing and the bobsled), and who also studied at Yale, Harvard and Oxford, practised as an attorney and served in both WW1 and WW2

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Dystopics_IT on 2025-07-21 15:37:54+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Hasekura Tsunenaga was, in all likelihood, the first Japanese to cross the Atlantic. He set sail from Tsukinoura, travelled overland through Mexico, then sailed to Europe, where he visited Spain, popped briefly to France, and travelled to Rome for an audience with the Pope in 1615.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/etcforlife1 on 2025-07-21 14:12:14+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MajesticBread9147 on 2025-07-21 12:32:34+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Edward Craven Walker; the inventor of the lava lamp, was a pioneer in naturism in film. He got around censors by not showing pubic hair, and directed the first naturist film to receive public release in the UK.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/explaingo on 2025-07-21 11:56:57+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the variability hypothesis, the hypothesis that human males generally display greater variability in traits than human females do. Sex-differences in variability have been observed in many abilities and traits – including physical, psychological and genetic ones.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Typical_Sharma on 2025-07-21 10:41:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Typical_Sharma on 2025-07-21 09:38:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ZenMasterZee on 2025-07-21 10:32:34+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that between 1915 and 1926, Encephalitis Lethargica, also known as sleeping sickness, swept the world. It left people frozen, awake but unable to move or speak. Half a million died or became trapped in their bodies. Then, just as suddenly as it appeared, it vanished without explanation.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Typical_Sharma on 2025-07-21 09:34:21+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Argon‑Oxygen Decarburization—the main process behind 75% of the world’s stainless‑steel production—was invented in 1954 to remove carbon while preserving chromium using a mix of argon and oxygen gases

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ex-expatriate on 2025-07-21 03:10:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SecureParsnip1285 on 2025-07-21 09:04:20+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Eddie Eagan, the only person to win gold at a summer and winter olympics in different events (in boxing and the bobsled), and who also studied at Yale, Harvard and Oxford, practised as an attorney and served in both WW1 and WW2

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/LongLiveAlex on 2025-07-21 07:16:29+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Baseball player Rickey Henderson referred to himself in third person. Reporter Tom Verducci claimed that during one off-season, Henderson called Padres general manager Kevin Towers and left this message: "Kevin, this is Rickey. Calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ididntplayball on 2025-07-21 05:37:13+00:00.