Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/twilightmoons on 2025-08-07 08:54:19+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/nuttybudd on 2025-08-06 23:44:14+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-08-07 05:49:11+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Fusako Sano is a Japanese woman who was kidnapped at age 9 and held captive for nine years and two months. Rescued at 19, she was frail and mentally affected by isolation, suffering from PTSD and physical weakness. In 2007, her father drowned in a pond while they were spending time together

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Mrk2d on 2025-08-07 08:55:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/UnlikelyOpposite7478 on 2025-08-08 01:21:42+00:00.

Original Title: TIL South Korea’s tech boom and rapid economic growth were driven by a super intense education system and a highly motivated population. starting in the 60s they pushed an export-focused strategy that basically turned the country into a global tech powerhouse in a few decades.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-08-08 00:08:32+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Martha Ballard (1735 – 1812) was an American midwife and diarist who recorded over 1,400 pages of daily life and births on the Maine frontier for 27 years. Her detailed diary offers rare insights into colonial women’s lives, family struggles, local crimes, and early American social customs.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Hrtzy on 2025-08-07 21:56:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/eyezenberg on 2025-08-07 18:19:59+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/el_gringo_exotico on 2025-08-06 16:32:49+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ledgendary on 2025-08-07 05:11:38+00:00.

Original Title: TIL : In 1990 Marion Barry the Mayor of DC, was videotaped during a FBI sting operation at a hotel party smoking crack cocaine. He was arrested and sentenced to federal prison. He was re-elected as mayor in 1994 after his release.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/hominoid_in_NGC4594 on 2025-08-07 22:37:23+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about a ~1,920 year-old letter written by a Roman cavalry decurion named Masculous to prefect Flavius Cerialis, inquiring about the instructions for his men for the following day, including a polite request for more beer to be sent to the fort (they had already consumed their entire stock).

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WartimeHotTot on 2025-08-07 03:37:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/FearMyCock on 2025-08-07 21:41:12+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the "cangue" A brutal wooden collar used in ancient China for public humiliation and punishment. It was so heavy and restrictive that prisoners couldn't feed themselves and often died from exhaustion or starvation.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/EssexGuyUpNorth on 2025-08-07 21:32:29+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SphericalManInVacuum on 2025-08-07 02:14:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Morella1989 on 2025-08-07 00:55:26+00:00.

Original Title: Til Mr Cruel is an unidentified offender active in late 80s and early 90s Melbourne. He abducted three girls. Two victims described the house where they were held and heard planes nearby, suggesting it was near Melbourne Airport. He is the prime suspect in the 1991 murder of Karmein Chan.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/maninahat on 2025-08-06 12:52:39+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Stephen Stucker, best known for his role as the mad traffic controller in the 1980 movie Airplane, died only six years later to AIDs. He publicly revealed his condition in 1985, making him one of the first popular entertainers to be lost to recently discovered disease. He was 38.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Big_Sea_5912 on 2025-08-07 19:59:35+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WhatsMyUsername13 on 2025-08-07 19:44:49+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/zahrul3 on 2025-08-07 18:16:34+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/IanRastall on 2025-08-07 18:04:10+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WebEven620 on 2025-08-07 18:02:23+00:00.

Original Title: TIL In 2017 Oobah Butler who used to write fake restaurant reviews created a fake restaurant in his shed as a social experiment. Without serving a single real dish, "The Shed at Dulwich" became London's #1 resturant.When he finally invited guests and served pre-made meals, they still praised it.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/o0Sarah0o on 2025-08-07 00:05:59+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of an isolated village called Dali Koumbe (also known as Dali Gimba) in Mauritania, West Africa where the majority of people have been born blind for the past 10 generations. It is thought to be congenital, though some locals attribute it to an old prophesy that foretold of a blind baby's birth.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/xxwarlorddarkdoomxx on 2025-08-06 19:40:29+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Trofim Lysenko, a Soviet agronomist who rejected conventional genetics and natural selection. Lysenko believed plants of the same species never compete, and so forced farmers to plant seeds very densely. This actually harmed yields, contributing to large famines in the USSR, and later China.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/battywombat21 on 2025-08-06 15:17:02+00:00.