Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/hybridaaroncarroll on 2025-07-03 15:15:37+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Jayne Mansfield's father died of a heart attack while she was in the car with him. She was 3 years old. Her daughter, Mariska Hargitay, was in the car accident that killed Mansfield. Mariska was also 3 years old at the time.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/explaingo on 2025-07-03 13:31:38+00:00.

Original Title: TIL People with depression use language differently. They use significantly more first person singular pronouns – such as “me”, “myself” and “I”. Researchers have reported that pronouns are actually more reliable in identifying depression than negative emotion words.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NerdMachine on 2025-07-03 12:09:28+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Not_so_ghetto on 2025-07-03 11:54:19+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/awesome_mccoolname on 2025-07-03 10:56:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/RPO777 on 2025-07-03 06:12:01+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/xe3to on 2025-07-03 05:45:09+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the United States actually achieved legal independence from Britain with the passage of the Lee Resolution, two days prior to the Declaration of Independence. Wrote John Adams: "The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America"

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/OldIndianMonk on 2025-07-03 05:04:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/_swedger on 2025-07-03 04:17:07+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Janet Parker from the University of Birmingham Medical School. She likely contracted smallpox via air ducts in her office via a lab where researchers kept samples. Within 4 weeks she was dead, her father died of a heart attack visiting her in the hospital and her boss cut his own throat.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WavesAndSaves on 2025-07-03 03:48:02+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the McDonald's #1 Store Museum, "officially" the first McDonald's, is actually a replica of the ninth restaurant location, which was torn down and rebuilt in 1985. The company refers to it as the original because it was the first opened after former CEO Ray Kroc joined the company.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/0hGeeze on 2025-07-03 02:14:14+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Sampson/Mammoth - the largest horse recorded. He was a Shire breed horse over 7ft tall & weighed as much as an SUV. Horses this size are becoming exceedingly rare: Both Shires and Clydesdales, large draught breeds, are endangered with less than 5,000 estimated alive worldwide.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/happy_bluebird on 2025-07-03 02:33:33+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama (the one responsible for choosing the next Dalai Lama), was abducted in 1995 by the Chinese government when he was only 6 years old. He has not been seen or heard from since.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Giff95 on 2025-07-03 02:16:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TheNFSIdentity on 2025-07-03 01:28:52+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in January 2010, the city of Black Hawk, Colorado forbade riding bicycles in their streets (except for town locals). The law was later reversed by the Colorado Supreme Court in 2013, primarily on grounds that Black Hawk never provided alternative paths for bicycle riders.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GoinThruTheBigD on 2025-07-03 01:21:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/r3volc on 2025-07-03 00:58:09+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the movie Mars Attacks! was based on a 1962 trading card series featuring graphic art of Martians vaporizing soldiers, abducting women, and destroying cities, which caused public outrage and was pulled from shelves.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Lennsyl22 on 2025-07-02 18:43:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DangerNoodle1993 on 2025-07-02 23:27:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CupidStunt13 on 2025-07-02 22:40:04+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the oldest bones found in Antarctica belonged to an indigenous woman from Chile who died in her early 20s. Found on a beach, it's estimated she came to Antarctica between 1819 and 1825. There are no surviving documents explaining how or why a young woman came to be in Antarctica during this era

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sanguinusshiboleth on 2025-07-02 21:30:05+00:00.

Original Title: TIL, that when Nelson Mandela left prison, one of the first places he visited was Ireland but he was only allowed to give a speach to the Dáil, one of the two houses of the Irish parliment, as speaking to both was a right reserved for Heads of State.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/VanGoghEnjoyer on 2025-07-02 21:13:36+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the "Filioque controversy" was a major theological dispute between Eastern and Western Christianity over whether the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father alone or from the Father and the Son, contributing to the Great Schism.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/OatSoyLaMilk on 2025-07-02 21:19:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/temporalwanderer on 2025-07-02 19:18:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/nuttybudd on 2025-07-02 18:39:43+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2010, the Air Force Research Laboratory built the Condor Cluster, a supercomputer composed of 1,716 Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles. At the time, it was "about the 35th- or 36th-fastest computer in the world".

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/izzyusa on 2025-07-02 18:32:51+00:00.