Today I Learned (TIL)

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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.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ScarPsychological292 on 2025-07-20 03:37:12+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/bourj on 2025-07-20 03:16:25+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/VoidOfEndlessDark on 2025-07-20 02:33:47+00:00.

Original Title: TIL About the Laconia Incident where a German U-Boat sunk the RMS Laconia, a British passenger liner. When it was rescuing survivors and towing them to a French handover, it was attacked by a US B-24 and led to the Kriegsmarine no longer assisting ships they sunk for the rest of the war.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Flubadubadubadub on 2025-07-20 01:41:05+00:00.

Original Title: TIL That in 1981 the BBC as part of it's 'Computer Literacy Project' launched the BBC Micro, within 3 years almost every school in the UK had at least one unit and it was a major contributor to the development of computer awareness and skills across the UK.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Successful_Wafer3099 on 2025-07-20 01:31:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/idiot_505 on 2025-07-19 22:39:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NewlyDiscoverdMe on 2025-07-20 00:43:06+00:00.

Original Title: TIL That A 26-year-old man in Peru was caught carrying an 800-year-old mummy in a food delivery cooler bag. The man, identified as Julio Cesar Bermejo, referred to the mummy as his "spiritual girlfriend"

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MeatUnusual2098 on 2025-07-20 00:39:53+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Bob Anderson, the legendary swordmaster who trained Viggo Mortensen for his role as Aragorn, also stepped into the Darth Vader suit to perform the lightsaber duels in "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi".

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/robaato72 on 2025-07-20 00:01:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/andrewscool101 on 2025-07-19 21:50:45+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SuvenPan on 2025-07-19 21:21:28+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Narender Yadav an Indian went to Everest where he claimed to have summitted the mountain but discrepancies were noticed which indicated he had faked the summit. He got a ban from the mountain for six years. He returned the day after his ban expired and reached the summit with ample proof.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/reallifepixel on 2025-07-19 20:43:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/One_Needleworker5218 on 2025-07-19 20:17:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2025-07-19 19:54:31+00:00.

Original Title: TIL One of Niccolo Machiavelli's many talents was improvised song writing: his friends would try to challenge his rhyming skills by opening a random page of any random Latin poet and asking him to translate and turn into into a song, which he was able to do on the spot while playing the lira

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Future_Usual_8698 on 2025-07-19 19:03:42+00:00.