Today I Learned - Ad Free
@TodayILearnedAF
1.22K subscribers
3 photos
59K 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
About
Blog
Apps
Platform
Join
Today I Learned - Ad Free
1.22K subscribers
Today I Learned - Ad Free
TIL over a 5-month period in 2020, a nurse in Yale's fertility center stole the fentanyl in 175 vials that were meant for women who had a procedure to have their eggs retrieved. The nurse replaced the pain medication with saline solution, leaving the women in excruciating pain during the procedure.
https://ift.tt/VDTYKsc

Submitted January 31, 2026 at 05:50PM by tyrion2024
via reddit https://ift.tt/6oJ5QDi
TODAY.com
A nurse stole their IVF pain medication. Her victims are speaking out
“It’s like a stabbing internal pain that no one should ever feel. Ever.”
🤬2
115 viewsIFTTT, 
Today I Learned - Ad Free
TIL United States of Greater Austria was a proposal by group surrounding Franz Ferdinand to turn the empire into a federation. This caused panic among Serbian nationalists which feared it might satisfy the demand of minorities and hinder Serbia imperial ambition which lead to his assassination.
https://ift.tt/R31daYL

Submitted January 31, 2026 at 04:59PM by Skychu768
via reddit https://ift.tt/rx8A1B2
126 viewsIFTTT, 
Today I Learned - Ad Free
TIL that under a law called the Berry Amendment, the U.S. Military is legally required to ensure 100% of its clothing is made in America. Every stage of production, from the raw cotton or wool to the zippers, buttons, and even the thread, must be 100% U.S. sourced and manufactured.
https://ift.tt/spgovcT

Submitted January 31, 2026 at 06:39PM by palmerry
via reddit https://ift.tt/V4yuZzE
🤯1🤣1
109 viewsIFTTT, 
Today I Learned - Ad Free
TIL that during the American revolution, when George Washington and his army were in desperate need of money to pay troops, the people of Havana raised money and sent it to the Americans, helping them win the important battle of Yorktown.
https://ift.tt/8fiNaV4

Submitted January 31, 2026 at 09:02PM by HappyIdiot123
via reddit https://ift.tt/P3VTL7j
www.nps.gov
FRANCISCO SAAVEDRA DE SANGRONIS AND THE PEOPLE OF HAVANA, CUBA - Yorktown Battlefield Part of Colonial National Historical Park…
❤2
106 viewsIFTTT, 
Today I Learned - Ad Free
TIL that Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia killed around a quarter of the population (about 2 million people) in just four years, targeting intellectuals, city dwellers, and ethnic minorities to force a “classless agrarian society.”
https://ift.tt/aVJ40y5

Submitted January 31, 2026 at 10:06PM by FearMyCock
via reddit https://ift.tt/Bc1Vw2D
112 viewsIFTTT, 
Today I Learned - Ad Free
TIL U.S. stop signs were designed to be identifiable by shape alone because many drivers had difficulty reading signs and shape recognition was considered more reliable than text.
https://ift.tt/h7K6JS8

Submitted January 31, 2026 at 10:03PM by A11J06
via reddit https://ift.tt/cFdE7Rm
115 viewsIFTTT, 
Today I Learned - Ad Free
TIL Marlon Brando's final performance before his death was in the 2006 video game "The Godfather", made and published by EA. Most of his recordings were unusable since he was so sick he could barely speak, and the microphones in the recording studio kept picking up the noise of his oxygen machine.
https://ift.tt/9ye8Lnk

Submitted January 31, 2026 at 10:41PM by Away_Flounder3813
via reddit https://ift.tt/rSflwyE
😢3
117 viewsIFTTT, 
Today I Learned - Ad Free
TIL drummer Artimus Pyle of Lynyrd Skynyrd was onboard when their plane crashed near Baton Rouge. Suffering broken ribs he reached a farm with others. A farmer mistook them for escaped convicts, firing a shot in the air to leave. Pyle finally convinced him they were in a plane crash and needed help.
https://ift.tt/beSRETW

Submitted January 31, 2026 at 11:12PM by SlothSpeed
via reddit https://ift.tt/SBWRjo5
106 viewsIFTTT, 
Today I Learned - Ad Free
TIL Hares are scavengers that will eat meat and even their own dead
https://ift.tt/wgivW7V

Submitted January 31, 2026 at 10:54PM by Marginallyhuman
via reddit https://ift.tt/PdR9JEe
ZME Science
Meat-eating rabbits: these fluffy creatures are not exactly “herbivores”
So that's unexpected!
102 viewsIFTTT, 
Today I Learned - Ad Free
TIL the Mongol Empire intended to expand west all the way to the The Great Sea (Atlantic Ocean). Conquering most of Central Europe, the invasion halted due to the alcohol related death of Ogedei Khan and his general’s having to return home for the election of a new Khan.
https://ift.tt/uVLIhxQ

Submitted January 31, 2026 at 11:22PM by FullOfSound
via reddit https://ift.tt/3iESVvM
103 viewsIFTTT, 
Today I Learned - Ad Free
TIL that in 1994, an American teenager in Singapore pled guilty to stealing road signs and vandalizing cars. He was sentenced to 6 lashes of a cane, which was reduced to 4 after media outrage in the US
https://ift.tt/zJDqNQ6

Submitted February 01, 2026 at 01:47AM by Overall-Register9758
via reddit https://ift.tt/naveGix
🤣8
114 viewsIFTTT, 
Today I Learned - Ad Free
TIL that in the Australian marsupial Antechinus, the entire species reproduces in a single suicidal mating event: all males breed nonstop for 2–3 weeks, the stress of which causes every male to die from internal bleeding, organ failure and immune collapse.
https://ift.tt/61hvRr7

Submitted February 01, 2026 at 03:21AM by Neutral-frame
via reddit https://ift.tt/uoYpDKS
PubMed Central (PMC)
Sperm competition drives the evolution of suicidal reproduction in mammals
In some marsupial genera but in no other mammals, escalating stress hormones during the breeding season cause immune system collapse and synchronized death after mating in all males (suicidal reproduction). In this paper, we resolve the ...
🔥1
128 viewsIFTTT, 
Today I Learned - Ad Free
TIL about author Sinclair Lewis from Sauk Centre MN. He wrote a dystopian novel about a politician named Buzz Windrip who wins the presidency by promising to restore American greatness, but quickly establishes a dictatorship, suppressing rights and imprisoning opponents.
https://ift.tt/Io2tND6

Submitted February 01, 2026 at 08:00AM by vextortion
via reddit https://ift.tt/Rx3ry2E
🌚6
126 viewsIFTTT, 
Today I Learned - Ad Free
TIL about “Ninja rocks”, small pieces of porcelain from spark plugs that can instantly shatter a vehicle’s side windows.
https://ift.tt/XY9jh3T

Submitted February 01, 2026 at 10:13AM by DiggestOfBicks
via reddit https://ift.tt/x5lJyrA
104 viewsIFTTT, 
Today I Learned - Ad Free
TIL of the "sexy son hypothesis" which posits that a female's ideal choice of mate is one whose genes will produce offspring with the highest reproductive success, implying other factors like being a good parent or territory are less relevant.
https://ift.tt/tRVY2AE

Submitted February 01, 2026 at 01:56PM by GenericUsername2056
via reddit https://ift.tt/JFE6Sho
92 viewsIFTTT, 
Today I Learned - Ad Free
TIL before 9/11, US airports were public social hubs where you could walk to the gate, eat at food courts, and watch planes without a ticket or ID.
https://ift.tt/4KkVQez

Submitted February 01, 2026 at 04:14PM by Greydl1
via reddit https://ift.tt/WRJNzh5
NPR
It Was Shoes On, No Boarding Pass Or ID. But Airport Security Forever Changed On 9/11
No boarding pass or ID was needed to go to the gate, and 4-inch-blade knives were allowed aboard planes. Now we take off shoes, can't have liquids over 3.4 oz and go through high-tech body scanners.
91 viewsIFTTT, 
Today I Learned - Ad Free
TIL Salt glaciers can exist where a rising salt dome pierces the earth's surface and the climate is too arid for the salt to rapidly erode away. Salt glaciers can flow like a liquid by up to several metres in a year and are primarily found in Iran.
https://ift.tt/B3O7sCP

Submitted February 01, 2026 at 03:43PM by Halbaras
via reddit https://ift.tt/knI48Z6
👏1
90 viewsIFTTT, 
Today I Learned - Ad Free
TIL that dogs can get obsessive-compulsive disorder from playing with laser pointers.
https://ift.tt/JIsE7T9

Submitted February 01, 2026 at 05:30PM by DrakeSavory
via reddit https://ift.tt/hvpoLFx
✍3
89 viewsIFTTT, 
Today I Learned - Ad Free
TIL in 2016 Joshua Brown died after crashing into a semi-trailer truck while his Tesla was on self-driving mode. The autopilot failed to notice the danger due to bright sunlight causing it to confuse the truck for the bright sky. He was the first US fatality in a wreck involving a self-driving car.
https://ift.tt/n6qcIup

Submitted February 01, 2026 at 05:51PM by tyrion2024
via reddit https://ift.tt/zcKvfJt
88 viewsIFTTT, 
Today I Learned - Ad Free
TIL Simpsons characters Moe Szyslak and Mr. Burns were originally played by Christopher Collins/Chris Latta, notorious for voicing Starscream in Transformers and Cobra Commander in G.I. Joe. According to Matt Groening, he was replaced because, despite being very good, "he was just a dick."
https://ift.tt/ZWBPFlY

Submitted February 01, 2026 at 08:22PM by adiplotti
via reddit https://ift.tt/1df9e5u
92 viewsIFTTT, 
Today I Learned - Ad Free
TIL Hector Gramajo, who served as a general and the defense minister in Guatemala, was killed in 2004 by a swarm of Africanized bees on his farm.
https://ift.tt/ydQRrJM

Submitted February 01, 2026 at 05:41PM by Red_Clover_Fields
via reddit https://ift.tt/C1qYo53
95 viewsIFTTT,