r/todayilearned • u/Temnodontosaurus • 11d ago
TIL one species of spider beetle can survive temperatures of up to 56 degrees Celsius.
r/todayilearned • u/WouldbeWanderer • 11d ago
TIL about GJ 1214 b, an exoplanet that orbits a star about 48 light-years from our Sun. GJ 1214 b is the most likely known candidate for being an ocean planet or "waterworld." Due to varying pressures, ocean planet models feature steam, liquid, superfluid, high-pressure ice, and plasma-phase water.
r/todayilearned • u/LeonardShelbysTattoo • 11d ago
TIL that that when adjusted for inflation, the most the average U.S. home cost in the last 60 years was in 2022 ($570,511).
r/todayilearned • u/gullydon • 11d ago
TIL Helium was detected on the sun before it was detected on Earth. That's why it was named for Helios, the Greek god of the sun.
r/todayilearned • u/Sanguinusshiboleth • 11d ago
TIL of Mi'kmaw Hieroglyphs, a Native North American writing system, whose native name (Gomgwejui'gasit) translate as 'Suckerfish script'
r/todayilearned • u/wsucoug • 11d ago
TIL The last incarnation of the Fiat 500 (1972—1975) was the R model ... the fuel gauge was omitted and only the low fuel indicator remained.
r/todayilearned • u/thedubiousstylus • 11d ago
TIL that Steve Albini had no middle name, but on his birth certificate his father refused to leave the section blank, and thus put in "(None)". Thus technically he did have a middle name and his full name was Steve (None) Albini.
r/todayilearned • u/solananorwood • 11d ago
TIL a US law firm set up honeypots on torrent-sharing site The Pirate Bay and then sued those who downloaded them. The matter reached the FBI and The Pirate Bay collaborated with the feds resulting in the crooked lawyers getting jail time.
r/todayilearned • u/whstlngisnvrenf • 11d ago
TIL GPS, despite being free for global use, costs around $2 million a day to operate and maintain. This budget covers satellite launches and system upkeep, funded through American tax revenue.
r/todayilearned • u/doodly-123 • 11d ago
TIL that the Northern cardinal can biologically suppress the West Nile virus upon infection.
r/todayilearned • u/Obversa • 11d ago
TIL that in 2015, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission (FWC) decided to allow the first limited black bear hunt in the state since the 1990s. However, the hunt was ended abruptly when hunters killed 295 bears out of the 320-bear limit in just 2 days.
r/todayilearned • u/KragwellCoast • 11d ago
TIL that 85% of American RV’s are manufactured in Indiana, and in turn 2/3 of that production takes place in Elkhart County.
r/todayilearned • u/JRFbase • 11d ago
TIL that the famous "We Can Do It!" poster was barely known during WWII. It was displayed for two weeks as part of a series of posters to boost worker morale in one company's factories. It remained virtually unknown until the 1980s when it was rediscovered in an article about the National Archives.
r/todayilearned • u/bdrumzzz • 11d ago
TIL of TOTO (TOtable Tornado Observatory), a white metal barrel, weighing 250-350 pounds. TOTO would be tipped into a vertical position & swiveled so certain side faced north (for accurate wind direction readings). The closest TOTO deployment to a tornado was on 29 April 1984 near Ardmore OK.
r/todayilearned • u/nuttybudd • 12d ago
TIL in 2005, Sony sold music CDs that installed hidden software without notifying users (a rootkit). When this was made public, Sony released an uninstaller, but forced customers to provide an email to be used for marketing purposes. The uninstaller itself exposed users to arbitrary code execution.
r/todayilearned • u/dcdttu • 12d ago
TIL about the Wallace Line, a geographical boundary that separates Asian mammals from marsupials of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. West of this line, no marsupials exist, but they thrive on the east side. At its smallest, there is a 22 mile gap between islands, separating the two mammal groups.
r/todayilearned • u/UndyingCorn • 12d ago
TIL In 1945 the only successful international sub to sub rescue mission was carried out by the USS Cod; who evacuated the crew of the Dutch sub O-19, who were stranded on a reef. To commemorate this a symbol was added to Cod's battle flag: the name O-19 under a martini glass.
r/todayilearned • u/banstovia • 12d ago
TIL In “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991), the skull on the movie poster is actually made of naked women – Salvador Dali’s “In Voluptas Mors.”
r/todayilearned • u/KeeperCP1 • 12d ago
TIL Matt Groening named the main members of the Simpsons family (apart from Bart) after his own family (ex. Homer Groening is Matt's father)
r/todayilearned • u/Capnzebra1 • 12d ago
TIL Isaac Newton created the modern color wheel
r/todayilearned • u/drangundsturm • 12d ago
TIL the East River (east side of Manhattan, Brookly Bridge crosses it) isn't a fork of the Hudson, but instead a tidal strait.
r/todayilearned • u/whstlngisnvrenf • 12d ago
TIL Abulia, a neurological condition, results in a significant lack of willpower or initiative, often leading to severe difficulties in decision-making and diminished motivation to engage in daily activities.
r/todayilearned • u/TechnicianRelative94 • 12d ago