Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/excaliburcalibre on 2025-07-04 22:00:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Wazula23 on 2025-07-04 21:45:09+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/kutuup1989 on 2025-07-04 20:11:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Majestic-Ad9647 on 2025-07-04 20:06:12+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the largest Fourth of July festival outside of America is in Denmark's Rebild National Park. The festival has been attended by Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Walt Disney, and Walter Cronkite in the past. It has a "struggle to stay relevant with younger generations".

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/sconesandscream on 2025-07-04 19:47:35+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that a parasitic flatworm forms pulsing, brightly coloured sacs, called broodsacs, inside the tentacles of snails. It’s zombifying, caterpillar-shaped parasite pod that exists solely to trick birds into spreading the flatworm.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/holyfruits on 2025-07-04 20:58:17+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Paul Rudd, who made an appearance on the final episode of Friends, saw the entire cast was crying, and to lighten the mood, went up to a sobbing Jennifer Aniston and said, “We did it, huh? What a ride.” She did not find it funny.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/thetacticalpanda on 2025-07-04 20:13:18+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AlabamaHotcakes on 2025-07-04 20:12:31+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the company Hoover in 1992 offered 2 free flights to customers if they bought products for at least a 100 dollars. The flights were worth 600 dollars each and Hoover underestimated the customers fervour to obtain them and tried to go back on their offer and caused public outrage.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ThrowRA_CarlJung on 2025-07-04 20:03:19+00:00.

Original Title: TIL After Mario Puzo won an Oscar for writing the screenplay for The Godfather, having had no prior experience writing screenplays, he bought a book on screenwriting. The book's instruction was basically "Study The Godfather"

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/backrowejoe on 2025-07-04 16:21:27+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-07-04 15:14:10+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in Dec 1943, the B-24 Leon Crane was copiloting experienced engine failure & crashed into an Alaskan mountaintop. He was the only survivor of the 5 crew after he managed to bail in time. He then survived 84 days in the wilderness starting with only some matches, a Boy Scout knife & his parachute

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/kutuup1989 on 2025-07-04 14:39:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-07-04 13:47:44+00:00.

Original Title: TIL an American cyclist covered 4,707 km (2,925 mi) to create the 'world's largest GPS drawing by bicycle' in memory of her dog, Slinky. Kristy Bellmer started the 2-month journey on Slinky's birthday. Beginning & ending in Amsterdam, she went through Belgium, France, Switzerland, Germany & Czechia.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/slroa on 2025-07-04 13:37:44+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the Tata family, one of India's most prominent business dynasties and the founders of the Tata Group, are Zoroastrians. An ancient Persian religion with fewer than 100,000 adherents worldwide.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Eraysor on 2025-07-04 12:54:57+00:00.

Original Title: TIL during the Vietnam War, pilot Bob Pardo used his F-4 Phantom II aircraft to physically push his wingman's heavily damaged Phantom through the air to friendly airspace to avoid them having to bail out over North Vietnamese territory, even when his own jet's engine caught fire

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/rightkindofweird on 2025-07-04 12:32:58+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2013, teens Temar Boggs and Chris Garcia chased a kidnapper on bikes to save a 5-year-old girl in Pennsylvania. Boggs was later convicted of armed robbery but paroled in 2019 after showing remorse.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DonDae01 on 2025-07-04 12:19:05+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/dranime_fufu on 2025-07-04 12:00:03+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/nick9000 on 2025-07-04 11:47:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AloeBobaGirl on 2025-07-04 09:19:45+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/gullydon on 2025-07-04 06:30:36+00:00.

Original Title: TIL A 2023 study found that Chinstrap penguins take over 10,000 micro-naps a day, each lasting 4 seconds. When combined, that totals more than 11 hours of sleep daily. They are also generally considered to be the most aggressive and ill-tempered species of penguin.[

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Prior-Student4664 on 2025-07-04 05:55:20+00:00.

Original Title: TIL The survival rate in serious aviation accidents is about as high as 95%. Serious accidents are events where the aircraft suffers significant damage, or where people on board are severely injured or killed

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/bryson1995 on 2025-07-04 05:16:01+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/lilbluemage on 2025-07-04 01:53:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AdMaximum7545 on 2025-07-04 03:47:43+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Sisyphus, doomed to roll a boulder forever, wasn’t a victim - he was an evil manipulative king who killed guests and unhonourably cheated Death. His punishment was for his calculated cruelty, a way of saying, there you go, you beat death, enjoy your eternity.