Today I Learned - Ad Free
1.22K subscribers
3 photos
60K links
The 'Today I Learned' or TIL channel, forwards hot posts from /r/todayIlearned. This channel doesn't add advertisements to the source url.
Learn more, without ads.

Now open to invites and shareable with link:
t.me/TodayILearnedAF

Admin: @ZeroByMiesOne
Download Telegram
TIL that the oldest known graffiti in Pompeii says; ‘Gaius Pumidius Diphilus was here’, along with the date October 3, 78 BC.
https://ift.tt/35fyrOA

Submitted January 22, 2022 at 07:59PM by jesstheprequel
via reddit https://ift.tt/33WhNTp
TIL about DART Mission, a test to see if crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid can change its course, should an Earth-threatening asteroid be discovered. In September 2022, a space probe is set to crash into a moonlet of asteroid Didymos to assess the future potential of such technologies.
https://ift.tt/2fFO6d8

Submitted January 22, 2022 at 03:06PM by racc15
via reddit https://ift.tt/3tQWlds
TIL that chemist Fritz Haber, who’s discovery of synthesizing ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen, is credited for saving billions of lives. He also was a pioneer of the first chemical weapons used in WW1. His wife was so horrified of his role in chlorine gas attacks that she killed herself.
https://ift.tt/33EXwBW

Submitted January 22, 2022 at 07:48PM by HotFlamingo7676
via reddit https://ift.tt/3Iuq4wM
TIL that some peoples in New Guinea have entire languages that are used only when harvesting a specific kind of nut because they believe that their ordinary language is bad for the nut's health.
https://ift.tt/2ql3Bzt

Submitted January 23, 2022 at 12:49AM by JosephvonEichendorff
via reddit https://ift.tt/3GNUQQV
TIL that during times when people were burnt at the stake, bags of gunpowder were sometimes tied around the victim's necks to shorten their suffering.
https://ift.tt/36Zh8w9

Submitted January 23, 2022 at 01:22AM by beanmarmalade
via reddit https://ift.tt/3rK371Q
TIL China owns all the Pandas in the world and rents them out to other countries zoos for around $1-2 million per Panda per year.
https://ift.tt/341uuw5

Submitted January 23, 2022 at 02:28AM by Leicabawse
via reddit https://ift.tt/3qO7hXj
TIL Switzerland's last war enemy was France in the 1500s. Ever since then, they've remained neutral.
https://ift.tt/3AqvxSL

Submitted January 23, 2022 at 02:53AM by berzio
via reddit https://ift.tt/3KxIPRZ
TIL in 1896, two locomotives were crashed on purpose as a publicity stunt. Two spectators were killed by the boiler explosion. The responsible agent was fired and reemployed on the next day because of lacking negative publicity.
https://ift.tt/3KzVXpH

Submitted January 23, 2022 at 03:27AM by rjvberlin
via reddit https://ift.tt/3KAk87y
TIL the NFL requires every team to be owned by one owner or a small group, one of which must hold 1/3+ of the shares. The Packers are the only exception, community owned disallowing any single owner to own more than 200,000 shares.
https://ift.tt/3Ipbgjb

Submitted January 23, 2022 at 06:03AM by olagon
via reddit https://ift.tt/3FTgkdN
TIL in Belgium and France, Farmers still recover tens of thousands of unexploded shells and ordinance From WW1 that get pushed up by normal ground shifting (frost thrust, etc) and plowed up in farming fields. They call it "The Iron Harvest". They expect this to continue for hundreds of years.
https://ift.tt/3Am4mIF

Submitted January 23, 2022 at 07:14AM by FDR-9000
via reddit https://ift.tt/3qQdd2a
TIL that lemons aren't naturally occurring but are a crossbreed between a sour orange and a citron fruit
https://ift.tt/3fN4yXQ

Submitted January 23, 2022 at 12:24PM by Nut_Bustington
via reddit https://ift.tt/3GVcqCC
TIL in 1995 a man got so drunk on a United Airlines flight from Buenos Aires to New York, that he climbed on a service trolley and defecated. Because of political figures on board, emergency landing wasn't an option so everyone had to endure 4 more hours in a Boeing 767 sized toilet.
https://ift.tt/2GRH6Lf

Submitted January 23, 2022 at 12:34PM by YanisK
via reddit https://ift.tt/3rHA673
TIL Americans produced an average of 4.5 pounds of trash per person per day. And while that may seem like a lot of trash, it was actually one of the lowest estimates since 1990. Things keep improving.
https://ift.tt/3kseUMJ

Submitted January 23, 2022 at 10:36AM by sylsau
via reddit https://ift.tt/3fN5WtJ
TIL about Toto Forever, an installation in the Namib Desert which consists of 6 speakers atop a ring of large white blocks attached to a solar-powered MP3 player that continuously plays the 1982 song Africa by the American band Toto. Its exact location has not been disclosed.
https://ift.tt/3IsyFQH

Submitted January 23, 2022 at 04:43PM by Meganstefanie
via reddit https://ift.tt/3rL7LN1
TIL that Argos is the oldest continuously inhabited city in Europe. This Greek settlement has been inhabited for at least 7000 years, and has been under Roman, Byzantine, Crusader, Venetian and Ottoman rule. Significant ancient monuments remain there today.
https://ift.tt/3qTdIs5

Submitted January 23, 2022 at 06:02PM by fruskydekke
via reddit https://ift.tt/32nReGe
TIL that there is a Namibian politician named Adolf Hitler. He won a local election and says he has no plans for world domination
https://ift.tt/3g4YE3w

Submitted January 23, 2022 at 06:10PM by Darkness4923
via reddit https://ift.tt/3FYt4zU
TIL Fish & Chips was an aid in winning WWII. Sir Winston Churchill saw the comfort food as a 'good companion' and was a dish that didn't get rationed to keep morale up. On the frontlines, troops calling "fish" and allies calling "chips" was an effective way to tell whether you were friend or foe.
https://ift.tt/340SCPA

Submitted January 23, 2022 at 06:25PM by ruelmoralesmusic
via reddit https://ift.tt/3tWfSZZ
TIL Krusty the Clown from the Simpsons was originally intended to be Homer in disguise, which explains why they look so similar.
https://ift.tt/3fSojNU

Submitted January 23, 2022 at 07:30PM by Puffx2-Pass
via reddit https://ift.tt/3Kve0NP
TIL about Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, which is when something you recently learned suddenly appears 'everywhere'. It's a cognitive bias & a trick our brain uses to help us learn more about the subject.
https://ift.tt/3ApRbpU

Submitted January 23, 2022 at 07:28PM by Eienkei
via reddit https://ift.tt/3nPtP84