Today I Learned ๐ŸŽ“
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TIL that the first atomic clock, built in 1955, was so accurate it would lose only about one second every 300 years making it more precise than the Earthโ€™s rotation. [Source]
TIL over 40 years researcher Ian Stevenson, M.D, amassed 3000 cases of children aged 2-5 who claimed to remember past lives, recalling specific details like names, locations and events from the previous lives of deceased individuals. [Source]
TIL of Ian Waterman, who was unable to move or even sit up after a rare infection destroyed his sixth sense (proprioception). While he could still compel his muscles to contract, he lost the ability to coordinate his movements, only relearning to move after years of training to use his body. [Source]
TIL that Philo Farnsworth, the man who invented television, only appeared on a TV program one time. In 1957 he appeared on the quiz show I've Got A Secret. His secret was "I invented electronic television", which stumped the panel. For winning he received $80 and a carton of cigarettes. [Source]
TIL the first successful large scale slave rebellion was the Haitian Revolution. Spanning 1791 - 1804 the enslaved Africans of Haiti rebelled against Napoleon's rule, to earn their freedom. It is one of the only slave rebellions that ended in a state free of slavery, and ruled by former slaves [Source]
TIL the Marquis de Lafayette was made a major general in the Continental Army when he came to support the Americans in the Revolutionary War at age 19, despite never holding a rank above Captain in the French armyโ€”a rank he received as a wedding present. [Source]
TIL On 30 December 1999, Beatle George Harrison and his wife, Olivia, were brutally attacked in their home, Friar Park, by an intruder named Michael Abram which resulted in George suffering 40 stab wounds, one narrowly missing his heart. [Source]
TIL that in 2018 there was a diplomatic spat between India and Pakistan due to accusations that diplomats were ringing each other's doorbells at 3.00am, then running away. [Source]
TIL that the last known individual dinosaur was a triceratops that lived as recently as several thousand years before the Kโ€“Pg extinction event. No younger dinosaur fossils have yet been found. [Source]
TIL that Julius Yego, who famously taught himself Javelin through the internet, is still competing at the elite level 11 years after his famous World Championship win in 2015. At the 2025 World Championships he made it to the final and placed 6th. [Source]
TIL Richard of Shrewsbury was knighted before 2 years old, married at 4, widowed at 8, then likely murdered at 9. [Source]
TIL in 2019 Indian magician Chanchal Lahiri drowned in the Hooghly River while attempting a Houdini trick, he was lowered into the water while shackled but did not emerge, his body was found the next day [Source]
TIL the son of Queen Victoria's 8th son was an important figure in the Nazi party and a member of Reichstag from 1936 to 1945 [Source]
TIL that female stoats become reproductively mature at 15 days old, while they're still suckling and blind. Adult males will mate with said immature females, which then successfully give birth next year. [Source]
TIL that after Malcolm Xโ€™s assassination, the Audubon Ballroom was cleaned up and a party was held later that same night. [Source]
TIL Tamzin Merchant was originally cast to play Danaerys Targaryen in the unaired pilot of Game of Thrones. She was later replaced by Emilia Clarke when the pilot was poorly received and subsequently remade. [Source]