No, you didn't win a gift card and no we aren't running a contest/giveaway of any kind. It's a scam.
Users in r/todayilearned have received messages from spam accounts claiming they won a gift card in some contest. These accounts usually contain “mod” in the username, and start their messages by saying “Our Reddit team chose YOU for our monthly raffle for a $100 gift card (Yay!)” to trick people into thinking it is an official subreddit contest. If you received a message like this, please do not click on the link or reply to the account as it this offer is not genuine. Additionally, please report it to the admins here so they can remove these spam accounts from reddit. r/todayilearned does not run contests like this, and official messages from the subreddit will be sent from "/r/todayilearned", not individual user accounts.Edit: These morons are also hitting the users of r/askreddit hard because they have a sticky about this issue.Edit2 3/14: I guess these guys are slightly evolving their tactics, but they are still hitting our TIL community so putting the sticky back on because we have gotten modmail messages about it still happening.Screenshot of what the scam message looks like https://i.imgur.com/w3fjysB.jpg

Submitted March 09, 2020 at 05:29AM by lanismycousin
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TIL that during a concert in Ireland, Dave Mustaine (of Megadeth) drunkenly dedicated a song to "the cause" and yelled "give Ireland back to the Irish!". A riot then broke out between the Catholics and Protestants and Megadeath had to travel in a bulletproof bus.
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 07:52PM by CrashRiot
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TIL Kangatarianism is a vegetarian diet with the addition of kangaroo meat as a choice. It has environmental benefits because indigenous wild kangaroos require no extra land or water for farming and produce little methane.
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 12:43PM by MysticPato
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TIL about former American slave, John Berry Meachum, who began teaching classes for black people on a steamboat in the middle of the Mississippi River to work around the state of Missouri's prohibition of black education.
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 08:56PM by danlav66
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TIL of a giant "WELCOME TO CLEVELAND" sign on a rooftop in the flight path of a Milwaukee airport. It has been causing confusion to passengers since 1978. Creator, Mark Gubin, said: "Living in the world is not a dress rehearsal. You better have fun with it."
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 10:28PM by DekiTzar
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TIL that the 5th oldest known tree on earth was burned down by a Floridian woman who was smoking meth inside it in 2012
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 09:46PM by Mitche420
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TIL that otters keep their favorite stones under their arms when they're not using them to detach prey from the seabed and break it open. They've been known to form attachments to them and keep them throughout their lives.
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 10:59PM by l_hazlewoods
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TIL Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe owned roughly one percent of all the money in Denmark, wore a nose made of gold after losing his own in a duel and had a pet moose that he sent out to attend parties in his place until it one night got so drunk that it fell down a flight of stairs and broke its neck
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Submitted March 26, 2020 at 11:56PM by J0shua1985
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TIL Nearly 60% of the world’s agricultural land is used for beef production, yet beef accounts for less than 2% of the calories that are consumed throughout the world.
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Submitted March 27, 2020 at 02:27AM by bernardobrito
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TIL that Richard Nixon's daughter, Julie, ended up marrying Dwight D. Eisenhower's grandson, David, in 1968. They had 3 children and are still married to this day.
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Submitted March 27, 2020 at 01:20AM by NabaeteanAD_107
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TIL Black garlic is simply garlic that has been left to ferment at high heat. It's loaded with nearly twice as many antioxidants as standard raw garlic and contains a naturally occurring compound called s-allylcysteine, a contributing component in cancer prevention, & lowers bad cholesterol
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Submitted March 27, 2020 at 02:30AM by chercheur17
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TIL China's mass surveillance system, the largest and most intricate in the world, is literally called Skynet.
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Submitted March 27, 2020 at 08:19AM by sycomania134
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TIL of the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest, an April Fool's Day prank pulled by the BBC in 1957. Their highly respected news anchor reported a good harvest due to the disappearance of the 'Spaghetti Weevil', accompanied by footage of people removing spaghetti from trees. This sparked many complaints.
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Submitted March 27, 2020 at 02:54AM by SplittingHares
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TIL There is a famous Australian pub rock song about grieving over the loss of a romantic partner. The chorus sings "Am I ever gonna see your face again?" It is Australian tradition for the crowd to shout "No way, get fucked, fuck off."
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Submitted March 27, 2020 at 09:53AM by WarniesLatestRoot
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TIL that in the 1952 polio epidemic in Denmark, mortality was over 85 per cent due to a shortage of respirators. Dr Bjorn Ibsen invented a new kind of ventilator, proved it worked and then recruited thousands of volunteers to hand-pump them for weeks (they were fully manual). Mortality fell to 26%.
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Submitted March 27, 2020 at 08:21AM by TomasTTEngin
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TIL that a “Roosevelt Republican” is a politically conservative individual with a high regard for the environment.
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Submitted March 27, 2020 at 02:59PM by PenguinFrustration
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TIL hundreds of Canadian doctors asked for their own pay raises to be canceled. An open letter was signed by GPs, specialists, residents, and med students who asked for the money to be reallocated to others such as nurses.
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Submitted March 27, 2020 at 04:04PM by Miskatonica
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TIL Ross Lebeau, 24, was charged with possessing almost half a pound of methamphetamine. 2 field tests also yielded positive results. However, later it was found to be cat littler. It was to keep the windows from fogging up.
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Submitted March 27, 2020 at 02:30PM by shampoo_and_dick
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TIL the Crying Indian in the Keep America Beautiful ad was really an Italian guy named Espera "Oscar" de Conti. He moved to Hollywood, changed his name to Iron Eyes Cody and had a 60-year career as an Indian. Even after being found out he still claimed to be Cherokee and Cree, not Sicilian.
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Submitted March 27, 2020 at 05:46PM by marmorset
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TIL In the 16th century a Ruthenian/Ukrainian woman was taken captive and brought to Istanbul as a slave. Her joyful spirit earned her a name Hurrem - "the Cheerful One”. She rose to become Suleiman's legal wife and "Queen of the Ottoman Empire" known in history as Hurrem Sultan or Roxelana
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Submitted March 27, 2020 at 04:57PM by HydrolicKrane
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TIL that "Baby Huey" was a 400lbs Chicago soul singer who died in 1970 at age 26 after releasing a single album. The album later became hugely influential on early hip-hop artists, eventually being sampled on hundreds of tracks over the past ~40 years
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Submitted March 27, 2020 at 07:18PM by wowbobwow
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