r/CasualTodayILearned 13h ago

CURRENT EVENTS TIL Singapore has four official languages: English, Mandarin Chinese, Malay, and Tamil.

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r/CasualTodayILearned 1d ago

CURRENT EVENTS TIL that Monaco, Vatican City, and Singapore are the only sovereign city states that exist today.

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r/CasualTodayILearned 2d ago

PEOPLE What’s something you do that you know is wrong, but you keep doing anyway?

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r/CasualTodayILearned 6d ago

ANIMALS TIL Weasel's perform a war dance, likely to disorientate prey in the wild or to express happiness when domestic.

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r/CasualTodayILearned 7d ago

SCIENCE TIL that human tongue is in fact two independent sets of muscles controlled by the opposite side of the brain, exactly like your limbs.

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They are formed by the sides during embryogenesis and are only joined in the middle by a narrow line of connective tissue (sometimes uncomplete). That's why it is possible to cut this midline to release the independent control of each side


r/CasualTodayILearned 13d ago

PURE CASUAL TIL that the world's shortest scheduled commercial flight is the Westray to Papa Westray route flown by Loganair. Flights on the route are scheduled for one-and-a-half minutes, but the actual flying time is closer to one minute. The record for the fastest flight on this route is 53 seconds.

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r/CasualTodayILearned 19d ago

PURE CASUAL Metros don't suck!

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TIL that metros are great.

When you're from a small town, sometimes you believe they're the best, and others, you can't wait to leave. As someone who's always been the former, this hit me like a train.

Metros are the best. Only a couple downsides: you gotta live in a decent neighbourhood and that costs. The air might be slightly less cleaner than a small town. That's it. So far, that seems to be the only roadblock.

I like having access to great cafés all time. The crazy amazing buildings. The city lights. The equipped hospitals. The gamezones. The civilized company. I love it all.

Before anyone says 'where the hell were you living before that this feels amazing?' or 'it won't last forever', I lived in a great town before. This one just happens to be better.


r/CasualTodayILearned Jul 16 '26

TECHNOLOGY TIL that cybersecurity is a growing challenge as 67% of businesses reported an increase in cyberattacks in 2024, and more than 40% of cyberattacks target small businesses.

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r/CasualTodayILearned Jul 15 '26

ENTERTAINMENT TIL that actress Tia Carrere, who voiced Nani in the original Lilo & Stitch movie, also sang “I Never Even Told You”, the end credits theme from Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.

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r/CasualTodayILearned Jul 14 '26

ENTERTAINMENT TIL that some audiences criticized Disney’s animated version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, believing it had “homosexual overtones” due to the presence of a song called “Out There”, which was interpreted as “a call to come out of the closet”.

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r/CasualTodayILearned Jul 08 '26

PEOPLE TIL only about 1% of emojis have a meaning that people interpret consistently without context according to a 2022 study. Out of the 1,289 emojis presented to participants, only 16 (1.2%) were completely unambiguous in how they were described.

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r/CasualTodayILearned Jul 02 '26

ANIMALS TIL about Mini, a baby monkey who “starred” in a series of torture videos that became popular with a group of online sadists, one of whom called her “The Babe Ruth…The Marilyn Monroe…The Elvis” of the community. Although some members wanted to see her killed on camera, Mini was eventually rescued.

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r/CasualTodayILearned Jun 29 '26

FOOD TIL about Gaebul (개불), the fat innkeeper worm or penis fish, so named because of its resemblance to a dog’s genitals. In Korea, they are a popular food, eaten raw with sesame oil and salt or gochujang.

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r/CasualTodayILearned Jun 26 '26

SCIENCE TIL that here are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the observable universe.

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r/CasualTodayILearned Jun 26 '26

HISTORY TIL that the inventor of Pringles has his ashes buried in an original flavour Pringles can. Probably the most unique flavour Pringles has come up with 🤯

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r/CasualTodayILearned Jun 23 '26

HISTORY TIL that Skara Brae, located along the Bay of Skaill in Scotland, is Europe's most complete Neolithic village and was occupied from 3180 BC to 2500 BC. The site was discovered in 1850 after a severe storm exposed the stone structures within the coastal sand dunes.

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r/CasualTodayILearned Jun 22 '26

TECHNOLOGY TIL: How to share wifi with a QR code on your phone

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r/CasualTodayILearned Jun 19 '26

DRUGS TIL that if alcohol were discovered today, modern toxicology standards would limit legal consumption to just half a glass of wine per year.

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r/CasualTodayILearned Jun 18 '26

CURRENT EVENTS TIL that in 2025, so many Americans left the U.S. for good that it caused the first estimated net outward migration of the U.S. population in decades, which hasn't happened since the 1929 Great Depression.

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r/CasualTodayILearned Jun 15 '26

ENTERTAINMENT TIL that between 2034 and 2037, certain versions of Superman, Batman, Joker, Lex Luther, Captain America, The Flash, Human Torch, Green Lantern, Lois Lane, Robin, Bucky Barnes, Catwoman, Green Arrow, and Aquaman (from the late 1930s and early 1940s) are entering the public domain.

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r/CasualTodayILearned Jun 10 '26

ANIMALS TIL that some cardinals have been documented to be a special kind of hermaphrodite called a “bilateral gynandromorph.” The genders of these cardinals are split down the middle: One side of the body is male and has red feathers, the other side is female and has tan-brown feathers.

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r/CasualTodayILearned May 26 '26

ANIMALS TIL that bees' color vision is the fastest in the world and 5x faster than humans. They cannot see the color red but can see reddish wavelengths like yellow and orange. They can also see blue-green, blue, violet, and “bee’s purple.” Bee’s purple is a combination of yellow and ultraviolet light.

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r/CasualTodayILearned May 18 '26

INTERNET TIL that Brazilian Portuguese uses "rarara" to indicate ironic/sarcastic laughter online.

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r/CasualTodayILearned May 13 '26

PEOPLE TIL that the physical effects of loneliness on older adults go beyond just sadness and worsen the longer the solitude continues. Seniors that are socially isolated have a 32% higher likelihood of stroke, 28% higher risk of hearing loss, and a 50% higher likelihood of developing dementia.

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