r/todayilearned • u/THcB • 1h ago
TIL: In addition to his iconic role as Spock, Leonard Nimoy was also a director, and directed 80s hit "Three men and a baby".
r/todayilearned • u/Hoihe • 2h ago
TIL of Robinson Risner, who, during the Korean war, has used his own plane to intercept a friendly running out of fuel & hydraulic oil after taking damage and used the plane through a careful collission to push/lift his comrade's into safety
airandspaceforces.comr/todayilearned • u/P_a_s_g_i_t_24 • 3h ago
TIL In a 2014 report it was found that the mortality rate for professional wrestlers was significantly higher than that of athletes in other sports.
r/todayilearned • u/AussieDior • 3h ago
Today I learned that the USS Samuel B Roberts is the deepest shipwreck in the world.
r/todayilearned • u/jenesuispashariselon • 4h ago
TIL that Frank Eugene Corder, while severely intoxicated, crashed a Cessna 150 on the grounds surrounding the White House on September 12, 1994. He was killed on impact.
en.wikipedia.orgr/todayilearned • u/JarrodBaniqued • 8h ago
TIL Glass fiber dresses were a fad for a few years in the 1890s, and the NYT even predicted they’d be more popular
r/todayilearned • u/ThurloWeed • 8h ago
TIL that the Ancient Egyptians invented foie gras
r/todayilearned • u/Danomaniac • 10h ago
TIL The English expression "A little bird told me" originates from St. Gregory, who received divine inspiration through a dove
oxfordwesternmusic.comr/todayilearned • u/Cavalo_Bebado • 10h ago
TIL most cells on our body have a single non-motile cilium that acts as a cellular antenna
r/todayilearned • u/spidey_sensez • 10h ago
TIL of Primula Niven, wife of Hollywood actor David Niven, who died from a 'hide-and-seek game' accident at Tyrone Power's Hollywood mansion. Also in attendance that evening were Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison and Caesar Romero.
trove.nla.gov.aur/todayilearned • u/ben_watson_jr • 11h ago
TIL that in 1958 interracial marriage was a felony in Virginia
r/todayilearned • u/Twin_Turbo • 11h ago
TIL Prince died due to an overdose caused by counterfeit opioid pills containing fentanyl
r/todayilearned • u/UncleDawi • 11h ago
TIL that an aircraft like the Boeing 747 burns approximately 4L (0.9 gallons) of fuel every single second while in flight.
r/todayilearned • u/Flirtymiranda03 • 14h ago
TIL Nazis Planned to Assassinate Winston Churchill with an Exploding Chocolate Bar but the plot was uncovered by british spies
abcnews.go.comr/todayilearned • u/MadMan018 • 15h ago
TIL The Last Of Us accidentally contains an IRL phone number, that leads directly to an adult hotline service
r/todayilearned • u/bobstonite • 15h ago
TIL that Aretha Franklin's handwritten will was found in a spiral notebook wedged between couch cushions months after she died, but a court ruled it was valid
r/todayilearned • u/akoaytao1234 • 16h ago
TIL Mariah Carey threw herself a Mariah Carey themed party
r/todayilearned • u/Ainsley-Sorsby • 21h ago
TIL Of the great oxydation event: a single type of oxygen producing bacteria is responsible for terraforming earth from largely oxygen free to the earth we know today, giving rise to oxygen based life and causing a mass extinction of anaerobic life forms, wiping out about 80% of them
r/todayilearned • u/Voyager_AU • 21h ago
TIL that at 15, Kara Robinson was kidnapped and assaulted by a serial killer for 18 hours. She managed to escape after manipulating him to feel at ease. She later helped police to capture him because she had memorized details of her surroundings.
r/todayilearned • u/ford_crown_victoria • 23h ago
TIL: Your fingernail grows about 1 nanometer per second, so in a few seconds, it grows roughly the length of the smallest features in modern 3nm CPUs.
nano.govr/todayilearned • u/Transcend_Suffering • 23h ago
TIL: Major orange juice producers add chemical fragrances called "flavor packs" to their juice to provide the signature taste of their brand because OJ loses its flavor during pasteurization and de-oxygenation.
r/todayilearned • u/UndyingCorn • 1d ago
TIL The reason most South and South-East Asian writing symbols are curved and rounded is that they were easier to inscribe into palm-leaves. The oldest surviving documents written in Sanskrit, dated two millennia old, were written on palm leaves.
r/todayilearned • u/zahrul3 • 1d ago
TIL "hole watcher" is an actual job title. Their job is to ensure the safety of people working in holes or other confined spaces are safe by ensuring proper ventilation, and rescue them if they happen to get stuck, hurt, or pass out from the lack of oxygen.
r/todayilearned • u/shaka_sulu • 1d ago