Today I Learned (TIL)

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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.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sanguinusshiboleth on 2025-07-10 12:00:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ShamelessGenXer on 2025-07-10 11:54:54+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Mrk2d on 2025-07-10 11:40:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JordBees on 2025-07-10 11:25:10+00:00.

Original Title: TIL a planet 120 light years away may contain a special chemical called dimethyl sulfide. A compound predominantly produced by living organisms. At about 2.5 times the size of earth, meet planet K2-18b

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/lappy482 on 2025-07-10 09:31:33+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that before secret ballots were introduced in 1872, the UK kept publicly-available 'poll books' for each election which recorded how each man voted. This information was not only used by politicians to identify swing voters, but also by bosses and landlords to influence their employees/tenants.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GreekKnight3 on 2025-07-10 08:58:30+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/zahrul3 on 2025-07-10 07:25:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-07-10 06:52:21+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 1995 convicted murderers Daniel Luther Heiss & Shane Baker escaped from prison after Heiss discovered the key printed on the prisoners' information handbook was the master key to the entire prison. Baker had jewelry-making equipment in his cell & made a copy of the key. Both were recaptured.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Tim22Mt on 2025-07-10 06:36:25+00:00.

Original Title: TIL About ,Meher Baba observed total silence for over 44 years (1925–1969), believing true communication went beyond words. He used hand gestures and an alphabet board, famously saying, “I have come not to teach but to awaken.”

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/gabrieleremita on 2025-07-10 04:47:39+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that prop material from David Lynch's Dune (1984) was reused in a raunchy mexican comedy film about two astronauts landing in a planet inhabited solely by women, called “Two trashy guys on the planet of women” (Dune was shot at Estudios Churubusco in Mexico)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/zahrul3 on 2025-07-10 04:15:22+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the linguistically closest relative to Malagasy, spoken in Madagascar, is Ma'anyan, spoked on the island of Borneo in Indonesia. It has been suggested the early Malagasy migrants moved away from Borneo in the 7th century AD, based on linguistic markets

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Front_Requirement598 on 2025-07-10 03:25:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/boulevardofdef on 2025-07-10 03:05:08+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in the 1980s East Germany tried to resolve a major coffee shortage by building coffee-production infrastructure in Vietnam, its close ally. By the time any coffee was harvested, East Germany had ceased to exist. Meanwhile, today Vietnam is the second-largest coffee producer in the world

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Adventurous-Date-397 on 2025-07-09 23:47:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/clawsoon on 2025-07-10 00:44:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MSotallyTober on 2025-07-10 00:37:09+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Matthew Broderick had been involved in a fatal car crash in Northern Ireland while vacationing with Jennifer Grey in 1987. Driving on the wrong side of the road, his rented BMW collided head-on with another vehicle, killing a mother and daughter instantly.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/gullydon on 2025-07-09 22:02:36+00:00.

Original Title: TIL "Millet plus rifles" was a phrase Mao Zedong used to describe the materials and supplies of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). It reflects Mao's view that the inferior PLA equipment was enough to defeat the well-equipped and well-supplied Kuomintang (KMT) soldiers in the Communist Revolution.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/mongoose on 2025-07-09 21:51:29+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Cinn4monSynonym on 2025-07-09 22:05:05+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sanguinusshiboleth on 2025-07-09 21:17:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MrMojoFomo on 2025-07-09 19:03:47+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that until the Civil War, American currency was made only the form of silver or gold coins. Though the colonial Continental Congress briefly issued paper currency, it wasn't until 1862 that Congress authorized the use of paper currency as legal tender for any debts