Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AlabamaHotcakes on 2025-07-11 03:49:46+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the Lombard queen Rosamund. Taken as a prisoner after her father, last king of the Gepids, lost a war to the Lombardic king Alboin who took her as his wife. He was notably cruel to her, making her drink from her fathers skull at a banquet and she later instigated his assassination.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AlabamaHotcakes on 2025-07-11 03:33:28+00:00.

Original Title: TIL during Leon Trotskys assisination he fought back fiercely, breaking the assasins hand. But was struck in the head with an ice axe. When guards rushed in, they nearly killed the assasin, but Trotsky insisted he be interrogated. Despite emergency surgery, Trotsky died the next day from blood loss.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Vegetable-Orange-965 on 2025-07-11 03:26:25+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that medical students dissected the donated body of a 78-year-old man only to discover that he had three penises. The two extra penises were small, nonfunctional, and completely concealed within his scrotum, so it’s possible he lived his entire life without knowing his anatomy was different.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Alternative-Cake-833 on 2025-07-11 01:47:29+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/gaypenisdicksucker69 on 2025-07-11 01:00:20+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/VanGoghEnjoyer on 2025-07-11 01:21:43+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1870, Thomas Boulton and Frederick Park, were arrested after being found in public dressed as women, put on trial for conspiracy to commit sodomy, and acquitted because prosecutors couldn’t prove any sexual activity. The trial was widely discussed in the press.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TooOldToBePunk on 2025-07-11 01:07:28+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AdorableConfusion129 on 2025-07-11 00:57:13+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that when the first platypus specimen was sent to England in 1799, British scientists believed it was an elaborate hoax and even tried to pry its duck-like bill off, convinced someone had stitched it on.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/beipphine on 2025-07-11 00:55:16+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Indians of the Winnebago, and Sioux, and Dakota tribe are currently de jure prohibited the "rights of occupancy within the State of Minnesota" under federal law enacted by congress, Commonly referred to as The Winnebago Removal Act, and the Sioux - Dakota Removal Act - Reposted with a New Source

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AlabamaHotcakes on 2025-07-10 23:53:10+00:00.

Original Title: TIL after the Crimean War, Queen Victoria praised soldiers’ facial hair as the mark of "real fighting men". Mustaches became mandatory until 1916, mainly because gas masks required a proper seal, prompting the army to drop the almost 60 year old rule and made them optional.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/clawsoon on 2025-07-10 23:39:49+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Chairman_Ender on 2025-07-10 23:20:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DangerNoodle1993 on 2025-07-10 22:01:12+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the Kettle War of 1784 was a brief and bloodless conflict between the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, sparked when a single cannon shot hit only a soup kettle on an Austrian ship. The Dutch captured the vessel, and the war ended almost immediately.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/minerman30 on 2025-07-10 19:46:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Overall-Register9758 on 2025-07-10 19:38:20+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Nvidia founder Jensen Huang's parents sold nearly everything they owned to send him to what they thought was a prestigious boarding school but which was in fact a reformatory for troubled kids. He taught his 17 year old roommate how to read in exchange for help working out.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CoolFunnyPersona on 2025-07-10 18:39:31+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/smrad8 on 2025-07-10 18:19:14+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that because people with epilepsy are rarely schizophrenic and vice-versa, Ladislas J. von Meduna started inducing epileptic seizures in schizophrenic people to treat the disease. His first tests of convulsive therapy resulted in the first cure for catatonia and led to the development of ECT.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BaconReceptacle on 2025-07-10 17:55:18+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ClownfishSoup on 2025-07-10 17:39:28+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Sargeant Gander, a Newfoundland dog that fought alongside Canadian troops in the Battle of Hong Kong. He saved several wounded soldiers when he grabbed grenade thrown into their midst and ran towards the enemy with it. He was awarded the doggy equivalent of the Victoria Cross.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/stopitsgingertime on 2025-07-10 17:37:45+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Fordlândia, Henry Ford's failed rubber utopia in the Amazon jungle. In the 1920s, the colony was home to hundreds of workers living a mandatory alcohol-free "healthy lifestyle," including square-dances, poetry readings, and golf, but ended up totally abandoned after riots and crop failure.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ModenaR on 2025-07-10 16:24:56+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the Jabulani, the official ball for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Due to it's unpredictable behaviour when traveling through the air, the ball was widely criticized by both goalkeepers and strikers, with Brazilian goalkeeper Júlio César comparing it to a "supermarket" ball

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CityRulesFootball on 2025-07-10 15:51:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DangerNoodle1993 on 2025-07-10 12:16:03+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of the 1855 Toronto Circus Riot, which began when clowns from S.B. Howes’ Star Troupe Menagerie & Circus brawled with local firefighters in a brothel. The next night, firemen, their allies, and even police destroyed the circus. No arrests were made due to political ties.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TourAlternative364 on 2025-07-10 14:32:34+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Anna Marie Jarvis who created "Mother's Day" then resented the commercialization of the holiday, picketed flower & card sales then tried to organize campaigns to abolish the holiday leaving her penniless and was committed to an insane asylum partly paid by flower & card companies to keep her.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sad-Noises- on 2025-07-10 12:59:05+00:00.