Today I Learned (TIL)

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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

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/arijitdas on 2025-07-09 19:10:25+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TheDigitalGentleman on 2025-07-09 18:59:48+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DangerNoodle1993 on 2025-07-09 18:24:56+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Bobby Leach who in 1911, was the first man and second person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. He spent six months recovering from his injuries—only to later die from gangrene after slipping on an orange peel and injuring his leg in 1926.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Street_Exercise_4844 on 2025-07-09 17:54:30+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Dystopics_IT on 2025-07-09 15:33:14+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Jeanne de Clisson (1300-1359) was a pirate and privateer, called the Lioness of Brittany. She embarked in revenge for the execution of her husband, ordered by the French King. She sailed across the English channel looking for French commerce ships and called her flagship "My Revenge".

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ToNoMoCo on 2025-07-09 16:38:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SuorinGod on 2025-07-09 16:26:27+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Ralph Lazo, the only non-spouse non-Japanese American citizen to volunteer to live in the Japanese-American internment camps during WW2. He would later leave the camp to join the US Army to help expel the Japanese military from the Philippines, earning a Bronze Star Medal.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/mme-margot on 2025-07-09 15:34:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/izzyusa on 2025-07-09 14:49:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/VagrantWaters on 2025-07-09 14:32:54+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SWIMMlNG on 2025-07-09 13:58:10+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AlabamaHotcakes on 2025-07-09 13:58:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/RareXG on 2025-07-09 13:54:02+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/aschephnx on 2025-07-09 13:31:49+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GDW312 on 2025-07-09 13:20:36+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/LostVirgin11 on 2025-07-09 12:45:31+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 on 2025-07-09 12:32:19+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1964, performance artist Dorothy Podber asked to “shoot” Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe paintings. Believing she wanted to photograph them, Warhol agreed - until she drew a gun and fired. One damaged “Shot Marilyn” sold in 2022 for $195M, a 20th-century art auction record.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/zahrul3 on 2025-07-09 12:28:49+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Samudra Raksa, an 8th century wooden ship reconstructed from a stone carving at the Borobudur temple, which then sailed to Ghana via Madagascar and the Cape of Good Hope as plausible proof of an ancient cinnamon trade between Africa and Indonesia.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/VanGoghEnjoyer on 2025-07-09 11:50:25+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Charvaka, a 6th century BCE Indian materialist school, was one of history’s earliest explicitly atheist philosophies, rejecting gods, the soul, and the afterlife in favor of direct perception and skepticism

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DangerNoodle1993 on 2025-07-09 11:24:06+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that after sacking Antioch in 540 AD, the Sasanian king Khosrow I deported its population to Persia and resettled them in a new city he founded, named Wēh Antīōk Khosrow—meaning "Khosrow's Better Antioch."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Mrk2d on 2025-07-09 09:24:45+00:00.

Original Title: TIL In the 1930s Swansea Jack, a black retriever from Wales saved 27 people from drowning in the docks and river tawe area of Swansea. He was awarded medals, newspaper honors, and even a monument for his bravery.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/OldCarWorshipper on 2025-07-09 03:18:43+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the Cizeta-Moroder V16T supercar was so named due to one of the car's creators, legendary music producer and composer Giorgio Moroder. The name was later shortened to Cizeta after Moroder's departure following a dispute with the company's founder, former Lamborghini engineer Claudio Zampoli

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/zahrul3 on 2025-07-09 05:11:25+00:00.

Original Title: TIL: After Chris Benoit's double murder and suicide in 2007, doctors found that his brain was so severely damaged it resembled the brain of an 85-year-old Alzheimer's patient at only age 40, thus explaining his erratic behavior and mental state