Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/30InchSpare on 2025-07-07 09:47:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AyaanGaming27 on 2025-07-07 09:41:03+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Prior-Student4664 on 2025-07-07 05:41:22+00:00.

Original Title: TIL In 1993 Russia launched an orbital mirror called Znamya-2 that successfully reflected sunlight onto Earth at night, creating a bright spot approximately 5 kilometers wide moving across Europe at orbital speed. It was the first experiment in a program aimed at illuminating cities during nighttime

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/garrthes on 2025-07-07 09:04:25+00:00.

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

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/js99243 on 2025-07-07 08:21:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AdorableConfusion129 on 2025-07-07 08:07:02+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/gullydon on 2025-07-07 07:42:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/sippin11 on 2025-07-07 06:52:03+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that DJ Deadmau5 wrapped his Ferrari 458 in a Nyan Cat design and called it a “Purrari.” Ferrari didn’t like that and sent him a cease and desist letter, he ended up removing the wrap and selling the car.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/RareXG on 2025-07-07 06:38:37+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Australia has forced gambling companies to display slogans in their ads like “You win some. You lose more” and “What's gambling really costing you?” instead of the standard “Gamble Responsibly”

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-07-07 06:29:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Genocide_69 on 2025-07-07 05:32:12+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the American food corporation General Mills had an engineering division that built surveillance balloons that spied on Eastern Bloc countries, and built a deep-sea submersible that surveyed the Titanic wreck and helped recover a hydrogen bomb from the Mediterranean Ocean.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CycleSignal_ on 2025-07-07 03:56:54+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AeronGrey on 2025-07-07 02:33:28+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ryanmer on 2025-07-06 23:52:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WavesAndSaves on 2025-07-07 00:04:42+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of the Mississippi Miracle. In 2013, Mississippi students were performing a full grade level below the national average. After a complete overhaul of their educational program, including rejection of the Whole Language literacy method, Mississippi is now a half-grade ahead of the average student

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-07-06 23:47:35+00:00.

Original Title: TIL a stray dog followed Dion Leonard, who was running in a week-long ultramarathon in the Gobi Desert, for 77 miles of the 155-mile race. At night the dog even started to join him in his tent. He named her Gobi, & after the race, he crowdfunded the £5K needed to bring her back to Scotland with him.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-07-06 23:46:53+00:00.

Original Title: TIL by embracing a low-cost production model & taking less money upfront, executive producers Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, & Charlie Day were given a "sizable ownership stake" in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. By 2011, through just 7 seasons, the trio's stake was already worth close to $60m.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/zymurginian on 2025-07-06 21:55:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/FullOfSound on 2025-07-06 20:59:57+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that over his 24 year career, the charioteer Gaius Appuleius Diocles made $36m sesterces. He primarily raced for the Reds. Won 1,462 out of 4,257 starts. Won the ceremonial opening procession a record 110 times. Some scholars believe he’s the wealthiest athlete ever.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Vegetable-Orange-965 on 2025-07-06 23:13:09+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about “Christine”, a mysterious person who repeatedly calls hairdressers across New Zealand and Australia and sets up appointments, which are always no-shows. “Christine” asks the hairdresser to describe, in great detail, various scenarios involving women getting their hair shaved or styled.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2025-07-06 22:52:08+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Soundgarden's earliest hit, "hunted down", was a B-side single, but was used by their label, sub pop, as a holding tune on their phone. Reps from major labels would listen to it while on hold and began to ask about it. This is how the band got a contract with a major label

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WearASuitEveryDay on 2025-07-06 21:11:32+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that, despite having centuries-old "blue laws" that prevent most stores from being open on Sundays, Paramus, New Jersey generates over $6 billion in retail sales, the most of any ZIP Code in the U.S.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CourtofTalons on 2025-07-06 20:12:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 on 2025-07-06 21:20:52+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that sliced bread was first sold on 7 July 1928, by the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri. It was hailed as “the greatest forward step in baking since bread was wrapped” and by 1933, 80% of US bread was pre-sliced, leading to the popular idiom “the greatest thing since sliced bread.”