Today I Learned (TIL)

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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.”

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ForgottenShark on 2025-07-06 20:14:04+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 1995, a military factory exploded near Rio Tercero city in Argentina, sending a shell storm that killed seven people and injured over 300, and destroyed parts of the city. It was discovered that the explosion was deliberate to hide evidence of smuggling weapons to other countries.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/VanGoghEnjoyer on 2025-07-06 20:06:45+00:00.

Original Title: TIL: "Felo de se" was a legal term in early English common law where suicide was considered a felony—resulting in shameful crossroad burials (often with a stake through the heart) and forfeiture of property, punishable until abolished in 1961

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ElevatorVivid3638 on 2025-07-06 19:46:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AznJames704 on 2025-07-06 19:19:03+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/OldCarWorshipper on 2025-07-06 19:10:32+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the Terrible's gas station / convenience store chain, a fixture in California, Nevada, and Arizona, was so named for its founder and original owner Edward R. "Terrible" Herbst. Herbst was often called "terrible" by his business rivals, and decided to use his label as a marketing gimmick.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/XyleneCobalt on 2025-07-06 18:45:52+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Dystopics_IT on 2025-07-06 16:34:22+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Catherine of Braganza, wife of England’s King Charles II, used to sip tea as part of her daily routine, she came from Portugal where tea was already popular. The young queen's habit of sipping tea made the beverage popular in England as a social drinkable rather than as a health tonic.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Torley_ on 2025-07-06 16:20:52+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in the 1980s, the networked ICON computer was commissioned by the Ontario, Canada Ministry of Education. Nicknamed the "bionic beaver", it ran on a Unix-like OS and featured a trackball. Subject to political debate for wasting money with a niche ecosystem, it was orphaned by 1994 and destroyed.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/gullydon on 2025-07-06 16:12:11+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the concept of cow tipping, the purported activity of sneaking up on any unsuspecting or sleeping upright cow and pushing it over for entertainment, apparently developed in the 1970s, though tales of animals that cannot rise if they fall has historical antecedents dating to the Roman Empire.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Flubadubadubadub on 2025-07-06 15:51:48+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/1Universal_Turtle on 2025-07-06 15:51:29+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/LookAtThatBacon on 2025-07-06 14:20:05+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Windows Task Manager was originally an external side project developed at home by Microsoft developer David Plummer. He donated the project to Microsoft to be used as part of the main product build of Windows in 1995.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Aiseadai on 2025-07-06 14:13:18+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/almondjoybestcndybar on 2025-07-06 13:15:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-07-06 13:06:18+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in August 2007, 17-year-old George Hotz became the first person to remove the SIM lock on an iPhone. He then proceeded to trade the second (8GB) iPhone that he unlocked to Terry Daidone, the founder of CertiCell, for a Nissan 350Z and three more 8GB iPhones.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ghtgsite on 2025-07-06 05:05:17+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that during WW2 Chinese Muslim Imam, Hu Songshan required the Chinese flag to be saluted during morning prayer, and wrote a prayer in Arabic and Chinese for the destruction of the Japanese and the support of the Kuomintang Chinese government.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/comrade_batman on 2025-07-06 11:08:44+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Julian the Apostate (nephew of Constantine the Great) the last non-Christian ruler of the Roman Empire, who rejected Christianity & promoted Neoplatonic Hellenism, believing it necessary to restore ancient Roman values & traditions to save it from dissolution at the expense of Christianity.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BadenBaden1981 on 2025-07-06 11:23:01+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/zrv8psgOS9AiWK6ugbt2 on 2025-07-06 11:06:32+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Rex 84, a scenario and drill developed by the Reagan Administration to detain (in FEMA-run concentration camps) large numbers of United States residents deemed to be "national security threats" under the guise of the president declaring a national emergency.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Nmeri17 on 2025-07-06 09:24:19+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MajesticBread9147 on 2025-07-06 09:18:43+00:00.

Original Title: TIL after hearing her employer and lover who admired the Marquis de Sade claim that a woman couldn't write an erotic novel; writer Anne Desclos wrote one that was both massively successful and caused the government to pursue obscenity charges because of the sadomasochistic themes therein.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/polopiko on 2025-07-06 06:44:24+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Göbekli Tepe in Turkey is the oldest known temple complex in the world, built over 11,000 years ago, thousands of years before Stonehenge or the Pyramids, and it was constructed by prehistoric hunter-gatherers before the invention of farming or writing.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Tim22Mt on 2025-07-06 06:33:11+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Gary Webb exposed CIA ties to the crack epidemic in 1996. Though discredited at the time, later reports confirmed parts of his story. He died in 2004 from two gunshot wounds to the head, ruled a suicide but many found it suspicious given his revelations.