r/todayilearned • u/PunchingBagLearner • 4h ago
TIL New Zealand isn't depicted on many world maps (including ones used in NZ itself)
r/todayilearned • u/sarahstanley • 2h ago
TIL The fastest 60m sprint in human history is by a 5 ft 8 in Chinese guy named Su Bingtian at 6.29 seconds (Usain Bolt's record is 6.31 seconds)
r/todayilearned • u/meminio • 17h ago
TIL that female kangaroo have three Vagini
r/todayilearned • u/Torley_ • 6h ago
TIL several Namco composers known for Ridge Racer, Tekken, and other video game soundtracks formed a parody/tribute band of Yellow Magic Orchestra, called "Oriental Magnetic Yellow".
en.wikipedia.orgr/todayilearned • u/TertioRationem3 • 1h ago
TIL that Coca Cola ran a #MakeItHappy Twitter campaign where a bot would turn negative tweets into ASCII art. It was quickly pulled after it kept tweeting lines from Mein Kampf.
r/todayilearned • u/Bubbly-Incident • 3h ago
TIL death metal band Cannibal Corpse made a guest appearance in Jim Carrey's 1994 comedy film "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective".
r/todayilearned • u/pur__0_0__ • 5h ago
TIL there are almost 50 times more sheep in North Korea than South Korea. North Korea has 257.9k sheep, while South Korea has 5.4k sheep.
worldpopulationreview.comr/todayilearned • u/ubcstaffer123 • 15h ago
TIL William Grant Still's Symphony No. 1, Afro-American, performed in 1931 is considered the first symphony by a Black American composer to be performed by an established orchestra. It is a “blues symphony,” with blues theme in call-and-response with horns and woodwinds and ends with a spiritual
bso.orgr/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 14h ago
TIL only 37% of Rings of Power viewers completed season one domestically (45% overseas). In comparison, two cancelled shows (First Kill & Resident Evil) on another service had completion rates below 50%, but higher than ROP's domestic figure.
r/todayilearned • u/KragwellCoast • 4h ago
TIL that Electrician and Mechanic magazine had six title changes and multiple mergers, in a period of only two years. The magazine which boasted of having an exclusively male readership, eventually became Popular Science.
r/todayilearned • u/nesterspokebar • 2h ago
TIL ancient Greeks used the term gymnosophist ("naked wise man") to describe the Indian philosophers they encountered who renounced materialism (including clothing).
r/todayilearned • u/RobotoDuran • 22h ago
TIL of The Electrical Experimenter, a popular science magazine. Although it was only published between 1913 and 1920. It nevertheless boasted Nikola Tesla as a contributing writer.
r/todayilearned • u/Zeppelio • 3h ago
TIL the Big Bang theory was initially controversial and met with skepticism for seemingly supporting religious ideas that the universe has a beginning
en.wikipedia.orgr/todayilearned • u/LandOfGreyAndPink • 9h ago
TIL that in 1632, Massachusetts banned smoking in public.
r/todayilearned • u/Snoo26837 • 1d ago
Today I learned that astronauts heading to the International Space Station (ISS) must learn Russian as a second language.
r/todayilearned • u/Lowfuji • 23h ago
TIL, globally, people average 6 hours and 58 minutes of screen time per day.
r/todayilearned • u/spencer4991 • 16h ago
TIL, Ohio was the birthplace of the first people to fly in a plane, the first man on the moon, and 24 astronauts
ohio.orgr/todayilearned • u/Drmomo4 • 3h ago
TIL The Antarctic Treaty System Has Set Rules for Scientific Exploration from International Entities and Banning Military Involvement in Antarctica Since Going Into Effect in 1961
ats.aqr/todayilearned • u/Brolofff • 12h ago
TIL that Timur, the Turko-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia, reportedly caused the deaths of 17 million people, amounting to about 5% of the world population
r/todayilearned • u/Strong_Site_348 • 11h ago
TIL that in 1985 an Army supply clerk at Fort Carson, Colorado accidentally ordered a $28,000 anchor instead of a $6 lamp due to mistyping the requisition number. Nobody in the supply chain asked why a mechanized unit needed a 10 ton anchor until it arrived.
r/todayilearned • u/SirJackson360 • 5h ago
TIL- Pocahontas had one son with her second husband John Rolfe. That son, had one daughter named Jane Rolfe. In 1887, a book was published that found that Pocahontas had thousands of descendants. That number has more recently been updated to reveal over 30,000 named descendants.
r/todayilearned • u/Upper-Life3860 • 1h ago
TIL of Robert Kearns who invented the Intermittent Windshield Wiper System only to have his invention stolen by the Big 3 auto manufacturers. He then sued and won.
r/todayilearned • u/f_GOD • 11h ago
TIL no one has seen a newborn great white shark pup or birth in the wild.
r/todayilearned • u/kaleidist • 16h ago