Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Salem1690s on 2025-07-19 01:48:02+00:00.

Original Title: TIL King George III had empathy for Native Americans and pushed the the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which forbade all new settlements west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, which was delineated as an Indian Reserve. This angered many Colonists.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Physical_Hamster_118 on 2025-07-19 01:11:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JoeyZasaa on 2025-07-19 01:01:06+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that during the American Revolutionary War, African-Americans served in the British army over 2-to-1 versus in the American army because they viewed a British victory as a way to achieve freedom from slavery

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/jacknunn on 2025-07-19 00:43:36+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Sweden is capable of domestically building submarines, frigates, jet fighters and satellites, despite having a population of just over 10 million people. Per capita it is one of the largest arms exporters on the planet.

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

Original Title: TIL during/after the Korean War, South Korea state-sponsored prostitution for US troops, framing it as women's 'patriotic duty.' Camp towns from the DMZ to Seoul were called 'GI Heaven. The sex workers endured severe abuses to facilitate "sexual hygiene" such as forced medication and imprisonment.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AlabamaHotcakes on 2025-07-18 21:05:19+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the "Three Hares Motif". The three hares is a circular motif appearing in sacred sites from China, the Middle East and churches and synagogues of Europe. ts origins and original significance are uncertain, as are the reasons why it appears in such diverse locations.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/sippin11 on 2025-07-18 23:11:19+00:00.

Original Title: TIL In Sweden, a couple tried to name their child “Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116” They claimed it was pronounced “Albin.” It was rejected.The parents suggested that the name be understood in the spirit of 'pataphysics'. The court rejected the name and upheld the fine.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/fanau on 2025-07-18 22:43:23+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AlabamaHotcakes on 2025-07-18 21:48:14+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Franceska Mann. A Jewish ballerina who arrived at Auschwitz in 1943 and was about to be gassed, she managed to take a pistol from an SS-officer and then killed him with it, starting a riot. The riot ended when SS reinforcements arrived and mowed the prisoners down with machineguns.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ssAskcuSzepS on 2025-07-18 21:41:12+00:00.

Original Title: TIL A charity in Auckland, New Zealand unknowingly distributed candies filled with lethal doses of methamphetamine in its food parcels after the sweets were anonymously donated by a member of the public. Each candy contained up to 300 times a normal dose of meth

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/omnipotentsandwich on 2025-07-18 20:10:12+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of the Petticoat affair. Between 1829 to 1831, nearly the entirety of Andrew Jackson's cabinet resigned after a group of their wives, led by Second Lady Floride Calhoun, socially ostracized Secretary of War John Eaton's wife Peggy because she didn't "meet the moral standards of a Cabinet wife."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/getthedudesdanny on 2025-07-18 20:33:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/EntertainerKooky7549 on 2025-07-18 20:12:10+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Japanese trains are on average only 18 seconds late. If a train is delayed by more than a minute, passengers often receive an official delay certificate to show their employer why they are late

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Plastic-Second-4620 on 2025-07-18 18:39:37+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DeScepter on 2025-07-18 19:09:49+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/One_Needleworker5218 on 2025-07-18 17:41:05+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/uniquestarr on 2025-07-18 17:33:51+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Upbeat_State4234 on 2025-07-18 15:30:55+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act passed in 1998 which contained the Faircloth Amendment that capped the construction of new public housing units in USA. The act created the Section 8 voucher program used today.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MrMojoFomo on 2025-07-18 14:35:42+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Frisian is the closest language to English. It's spoken by about 400,000 people living mostly on the coast of the North Sea, with the highest concentration in the Dutch province of Friesland. Though similar to English, they are not mutually intelligible

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sanguinusshiboleth on 2025-07-18 13:22:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-07-18 13:10:08+00:00.

Original Title: TIL a man with chronic déjà vu was "trapped in a time loop" for 8 years, which forced him to drop out of university. He was unable to read newspapers or watch TV because he believed he had seen it all before, despite not having any neurological condition chronic déjà vu patients usually suffer from.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Mrk2d on 2025-07-18 13:00:49+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that a family of ducks came into the lane of rower Bobby Pearce in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, and he let them pass and stopped rowing, but still won by nearly 30 seconds. He was undefeated in single sculls for the next 20 years.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TheGalvanian on 2025-07-18 12:03:20+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2012, India’s Patent Office issued a compulsory license overriding Bayer Pharma’s patent on the cancer drug Nexavar, allowing an Indian generics firm to locally manufacture and sell the drug for just $175/month instead of Bayer's $5,500/month, making the treatment much more accessible.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Dendrophile_guy on 2025-07-18 11:49:03+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 on 2025-07-18 10:49:51+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that “unsinkable” Molly (Margaret) Brown wasn’t just a Titanic survivor, she spoke five languages, ran for the US Senate before women could vote and earned France’s "Légion d'honneur". Astronauts named their 1965 Gemini spacecraft after her, prompting NASA to ban informal names afterwards.