Today I Learned (TIL)

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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

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WavesAndSaves on 2025-07-09 04:40:39+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Eddie Slovik. Court-martialed for desertion in WWII, he is the only US soldier to be executed for purely military offenses since the Civil War. He said he deserted because prison was better than combat, and anticipated a light sentence. He was executed to deter others from thinking similarly.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Mecos_Bill on 2025-07-09 04:28:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/perthguppy on 2025-07-09 04:14:45+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Future_Usual_8698 on 2025-07-09 03:46:09+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ill_Definition8074 on 2025-07-09 02:02:41+00:00.

Original Title: TIL In 1927 Italy, Giulio Canella, a M.I.A. soldier from WW1, was "found" alive in an asylum and reunited with his "family." But a court later found he was not Canella but Mario Bruneri, a wanted criminal. Canella's widow continued living with the man and insisted he was her husband until her death.

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

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AlabamaHotcakes on 2025-07-08 21:55:44+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of "Protected view" which is the legal requirement within urban planning to preserve the view of a specific place or historic building from another location. Like the the St Paul's Cathedral in London where high-rise development is restricted at certain sites if it would obstruct the view of it.

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

Original Title: TIL in 2023 a Canadian judge dismissed a case of criminal harassment against a man and ruled that: "Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given, charter-enshrined right that belongs to every red-blooded Canadian".

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/scotch-o on 2025-07-08 23:03:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Icy_Breakfast5154 on 2025-07-08 22:55:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/VanGoghEnjoyer on 2025-07-08 22:32:27+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in December 1577 St. John of the Cross—A Catholic saint—was actually kidnapped by his fellow Carmelites, held in a tiny prison cell, beaten weekly and fed only bread and water for nine months before escaping.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Kurelius on 2025-07-08 22:11:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Willing_Beat8566 on 2025-07-08 21:21:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/douggold11 on 2025-07-08 18:41:20+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/zahrul3 on 2025-07-08 18:52:11+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/mrinternetman24 on 2025-07-08 17:44:17+00:00.

Original Title: TIL a California serial killer dubbed the “Tipster Killer” would anonymously call a crime‑tip hotline after each of his murders—providing directions to his victims’ bodies so he could collect the reward.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AlabamaHotcakes on 2025-07-08 17:34:24+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Frito-Lay introduced fat free chips in 1998. Initially successful sales started to drop as some customers started to report abdominal pains, anal leakage and other symptoms after eating them. A warning label was added, but they were eventually discontinued in 2016.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/trianglefinger on 2025-07-08 17:10:26+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Charles Barbier invented "night writing," a raised-dot writing system for the blind in 1815 years before Louis Braille adapted and refined it into the system we use today. Despite being mostly forgotten, Barbier laid the foundation for tactile literacy.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Vegetable-Orange-965 on 2025-07-08 16:38:53+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that a former member of the band Thompson Twins designed a billboard featuring a young woman with four breasts hooked up to a milking machine. Although controversial, the billboard won several international art awards. It was intended to criticize the idea of splicing human genes into cows.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/VegemiteSucks on 2025-07-08 16:22:39+00:00.

Original Title: TIL: in 1819, Anton Diabelli asked all the important composers of the Austrian Empire to write a variation on his waltz. While most composers wrote only 1 variation, Beethoven alone composed 33, creating his "Diabelli Variations," now regarded as one of the greatest works for the piano ever written

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/stopitsgingertime on 2025-07-08 15:30:54+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the Denver International Airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse. In 2006 it had killed its sculptor when he was in the middle of making it when a 9,000-pound section fell on him, but eventually was completed by his sons in 2013.