Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/mschuster91 on 2025-07-20 17:56:48+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/No_Idea_Guy on 2025-07-20 17:29:53+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SchaefSex on 2025-07-20 17:06:28+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/mpocFr on 2025-07-20 16:40:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ranger934 on 2025-07-20 16:13:09+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/xricheex on 2025-07-20 15:31:27+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/One_Needleworker5218 on 2025-07-20 15:44:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/flamingoooz on 2025-07-20 14:58:50+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the crime drop, a pattern observed in many countries whereby rates of many types of crime declined by 50% or more beginning in the mid to late 1980s and early 1990s. There is no universally accepted explanation for why crime rates are falling.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sweet_Fix2346 on 2025-07-20 14:47:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2025-07-20 13:59:01+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun, the eccentric duches of Plaisance: when her teenage daughter died, she had her embalmed and placed in the basement of her manor. When the manor caught fire, she offered large amount of cash to anybody willing to venture into the burning basement and save the corpse

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Disastrous_Award_789 on 2025-07-20 12:37:00+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 1987, during KNBC's Ch 4 News in LA, Gary Stollman got into NBC's Burbank Studios as a guest of a former employee and took David Horowitz hostage live on air. With a gun pressed to his side, Horowitz calmly read the gunman's statements about the CIA and mental health hospitals on camera.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CreeperRussS on 2025-07-20 11:50:48+00:00.

Original Title: TIL When Uranus was being named, astronomer Johann Elert Bode proposed it as the Latinised version of the Greek god Ouranos. However, he was apparently unaware that Uranus was only the Latinised form of the deity's name, and the Roman equivalent was Caelus.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 on 2025-07-20 11:49:36+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that on 20 July 1970, locals in New Jersey saved Lucy the Elephant - a six-story, 60-foot, 90-ton wooden landmark - by moving her two blocks. Built in 1882, she’s served as a tavern, cottage, office, restaurant and Airbnb. Lucy remains the oldest surviving roadside tourist attraction in America.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/dtdowntime on 2025-07-20 11:32:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MeatUnusual2098 on 2025-07-20 10:57:44+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/jacknunn on 2025-07-20 09:27:11+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/soozerain on 2025-07-20 08:06:09+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GDW312 on 2025-07-20 09:05:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/RandomRed189273 on 2025-07-20 08:02:05+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/dagrave on 2025-07-20 05:42:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ill_Definition8074 on 2025-07-20 06:45:42+00:00.

Original Title: TIL In 1985, a South Korean economist named Oh Kil-Nam defected to North Korea with his wife and two daughters. Less than one year later, he defected again, receiving asylum in Denmark. He left his family behind in North Korea, where (according to latest reports) they remain imprisoned today.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sim377 on 2025-07-20 05:39:48+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/LittleDrumminBoy on 2025-07-20 04:52:03+00:00.

Original Title: TIL: Women are 73% more likely to be seriously injured in a car accident, as crash test dummies are modeled after men. The first "female" dummy was made in 2011, and was only 4′ 11″ and weighed 108 lbs. - representing just 5% of women.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sebastianlim on 2025-07-20 05:01:14+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that after wrestler Kerry Von Erich lost his right foot in a motorcycle accident, he continued wrestling using a hidden prosthetic foot until his suicide in 1992, with most fans never even knowing.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Careful_Trainer_1616 on 2025-07-20 04:39:07+00:00.