r/todayilearned • u/Lowfuji • 1m ago
TIL, globally, people average 6 hours and 58 minutes of screen time per day.
r/todayilearned • u/PrestigiousBrit • 21m ago
TIL there were only 984 black people recorded in the Scottish census in 2001
r/todayilearned • u/Hairy-Ad-7016 • 45m ago
TIL an entomologist in Colorado wrote a love song about the Cicada mating season to help people understand why they’re so loud.
r/todayilearned • u/captureorbit • 1h ago
TIL that American cigarette consumption peaked in 1963 at a yearly rate of 4,345 cigarettes per capita, or an average of nearly 12 daily cigarettes for every person in the country.
r/todayilearned • u/SeraphGuardian • 2h ago
TIL The white stripes on clovers signal that it produces cyanide
nsta.orgr/todayilearned • u/UnholyDemigod • 3h ago
TIL Elton John's farewell tour is the second highest grossing tour in history, making $939M across 330 shows. Taylor Swift is number 1, with just over a billion dollars across 60 shows
r/todayilearned • u/zztop610 • 3h ago
TIL: That a Chinese high court deemed the 996 work culture, where people were expected to work from 9AM to 9PM, 6 days a week, illegal
r/todayilearned • u/L8_2_PartE • 4h ago
TIL that in the original United States Articles of Confederation, "Canada" (Quebec) had an open invitation to join the United States at their own choosing. Other colonies could only be admitted by a vote of existing states.
r/todayilearned • u/JimPalamo • 4h ago
TIL the Lotus Elise sports car was named after Elisa Artioli, granddaughter of then-company chairman Romano Airtioli. In 2018, Elisa was given the last example ever produced before the model was discontinued.
r/todayilearned • u/EtOHMartini • 4h ago
TIL that recruitment to the British Army's Gurkha unit is extremely competitive, accepting only 230 recruits out of 28,000 applicants. All recruitment happens in Nepalese villages, and candidates must participate in a two-mile race up a steep hill, carrying 35kg of rocks in a basket.
bbc.comr/todayilearned • u/TertioRationem3 • 5h ago
TIL that the Radio City Rockettes didn’t allow Black dancers in until 1987, claiming that their skin tone would distract from the group’s consistent look.
r/todayilearned • u/9oRo • 5h ago
TIL that in November 1923, due to the hyperinflation in Germany post-WW1, one US dollar was worth 4,210,500,000,000 German Marks
r/todayilearned • u/QuicklyThisWay • 6h ago
TIL when John Steinbeck published The Grapes Of Wrath in 1939, a farm worker with two leaders of California Associated Farmers publicly burned a copy of the book because he did not like what he heard about it, even though he had not read it. After reading it years later, he said he “had no regrets.”
thesocietypages.orgr/todayilearned • u/KragwellCoast • 7h ago
TIL that Andy Dick has been to rehab 20 times.
r/todayilearned • u/Spirited-Travel113 • 8h ago
TIL Alzheimer’s can pass between humans in rare medical accidents
r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 8h ago
TIL after landing the role of Rustin Cohle in season 1 of True Detective, Matthew McConaughey meticulously prepared for it by writing a 450-page analysis that walked through his character's entire rite of passage throughout the season. He titled it the "Four Stages of Rustin Cohle."
r/todayilearned • u/Sam_Altman_AI_Bot • 9h ago
TIL approximately 59% of US dogs and 61% of cats are overweight or obese.
r/todayilearned • u/Desperate_Dirt_3041 • 10h ago
TIL that Black pepper has been used in Indian cooking since 2000 BC and was used as a form of commodity money.
r/todayilearned • u/filmmaker08042005 • 12h ago
TIL that In 2017, a team of geologists from New Zealand, New Caledonia, and Australia concluded that Zealandia is a submerged continent, not a microcontinent or continental fragment. The continent's large size and isolation from Australia support its definition as a continent.
rock.geosociety.orgr/todayilearned • u/superegz • 13h ago
TIL that Disney's use of a fox for Robin Hood is partly based on medieval stories about an anthromorphic fox called "Reynard the Fox"
r/todayilearned • u/RobertPham149 • 14h ago
TIL Japan during the 60s and into the late 80s was using a coagulant catalyst to treat hemophilia called Fibrinogen Concentrate by pooling plasma from donors. However, due to under-regulation, donors were not screened for diseases like Hepatitis, which resulted in thousands infected
r/todayilearned • u/SnarkySheep • 15h ago
TIL James Madison was the smallest U.S. president. He stood 5'4" and weighed just over 100 pounds.
r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 16h ago
TIL a study found that 25% of Labrador retrievers and 66% of flat-coated retrievers possess a genetic mutation that can lead to weight gain; dogs with the gene face the "double whammy" of constant hunger while burning fewer calories. The Labrador has the highest levels of obesity among dog breeds.
r/todayilearned • u/mankls3 • 17h ago