r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/badumbumpsh • Nov 14 '19
TIL about flame retardant hotel fabrics
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r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/[deleted] • Feb 12 '20
Til that GIF makers were idiots. Good on PNG makers
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r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/Omegadon27 • Jan 11 '20
TIL that YouTube comments have a 500 reply limit
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r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/liljoker2 • Dec 10 '17
TIL the main ingredient in Tonic water (Quinine), was originally used as a treatment for Malaria.
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r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/archaicecho • Jan 22 '20
Josef Mengele is a skeleton for science.
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r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/[deleted] • Nov 06 '19
TIL that FTFY stood for “fixed that for you” and not “fuck this fuck you”
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I’m very naive lol I always thought some people were so mean hahahaha and now I feel like such an idiot
r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/DMANSR • May 20 '19
TIL Pablo Picasso was born Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. No shit.
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r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/Call-me-Ishmael2 • Mar 15 '19
Japanese Killed more Chinese
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TIL That during WW2 the Japanese killed more Chinese people than the Germans killed Jews.
r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/grandpabrunch • Aug 23 '18
TIL that upper case and lower case letters are named as such because of where they were stored in a large case near the printing press with large letters stored in the upper portion of the case and smaller letters stored in the lower portion of the case.
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r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/fakeforgery • Aug 04 '18
TIL car insurance costs can go down by owning a car with a manual transmission because manual transmissions are now considered anti-theft devices
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r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/dillpickle3232 • Jul 23 '18
TIL when someone tells you to hold your horses, they are telling you to be stable.
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r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/mlperiwinkle • Mar 02 '18
TIL 62 of the 97 people on board the Hindenburg survived the fiery explosion that destroyed it.
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r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/SfromR • Feb 11 '18
TIL The statue of Guanyin is the tallest statue in the world. It is located in China. This statue above the statue of freedom
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r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/Better_weird_than_de • Jan 29 '18
A cat has been banned from the one stop shop after 13 years of visiting it
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r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/SoulKibble • Dec 14 '17
TIL there is a vegetable that sort of looks like a potato called a "Name"
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r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/danielmyers76 • Dec 10 '17
TIL that as of May 2017 the US government was still paying a Civil War pension to the daughter of a Southern deserter/Union Vet. Irene Triplett as of May 2017 was being paid $73.13 a month.
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r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/Autumn_Matkin • Dec 12 '19
that the mistletoe was associated with fertility and peace reconciliation
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r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/DMANSR • Dec 07 '19
TIL Pablo Picasso was born Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. No shit.
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r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/[deleted] • Nov 09 '19
TIL about a phenomena that occured in a 3M plant that produced an "invisible electrostatic wall".
amasci.com
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r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/FiresPride • Oct 19 '19
I am your Father ... WTF no your not .. he was
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TIL That Darth Vader was not played by the actor revealed in the movie but by a Brit named David Prowse !! He was jerked out of his 15 mins. Kinda pisses me off honestly...
r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/Palobryan • Aug 05 '19
TIL
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TIL that within our great government there is a special department called the "Department of Redundancy" their motto is "Anything worth doing is worth doing twice."
r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/REDDITBOT201 • Jul 23 '19
WHY
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WHY WAS SONIC'S REAL NAME OGILVILE MAURICE THE HEDGEHOG (I probably spelled that wrong).
r/TodayIlearned_TIL • u/007of9 • Jul 06 '19
Toxic Household Volcano - You may know that mixing bleach and ammonia makes for a violent toxic reaction. Today I learned that mixing Moss Out with bleach does much the same thing only worse. The bottle got hot, the fumes burn your eyes and the nasty brown foam killed the grass it landed on.
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Today as I sprayed about a 20% mix of bleach and water on the siding to control mildew on the north side of the house I realized I didn't have enough bleach to finish the job. I had a gallon of Moss Out for lawns at hand, so I decided to add it to my bleach and water mix. Yeowsa! Just like all those junior high or Science Guy type demonstrations where they create a DIY volcano, the bottle erupted with a energetic flow of nasty, nasty brown foam that you couldn't stay near. Within an hour, the grass and weeds it landed on looked like you took a torch to them! I'm writing this as fair warning to anyone who might have these two things near each other in storage etc., but I know someone is going to try it. I heartily recommend that you don't do it, but if you must.. do it with small amounts, don't let the stuff touch your skin and do it outdoors with nothing of value nearby! As far as I can tell, there is no ammonia in the Moss killer, rather the primary ingedient is Zinc Sulfate.. if anyone would like to expand on why this happens!?