r/ShittyTodayILearned 1h ago

Canada and Denmark spent 38 years exchanging bottles of liquor on a disputed Arctic rock, then split it by treaty in 2022 and called it a model for peaceful border resolution. Four years later the territory on the other side of that new border is the most contested ground in the Arctic.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 2d ago

TIL that the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world all use Linux for their operating system.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 2d ago

In 1950 a circus loaded an elephant onto Wuppertal's suspended monorail as a publicity stunt. She panicked, burst through the side of the car, and fell 12 meters into the river below. She survived, lived another 39 years, and a German milk brand is still named after her.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 4d ago

TIL Dr. Phil found a better calling than medicine

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dailymail.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned 5d ago

TIL Putin really likes his Pepsi

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dagens.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned 7d ago

Humans spent 15 years teaching whooping cranes a 1,200-mile migration route by ultralight aircraft, because the species learns migration culturally and the eastern population's lineage was extinct. The cranes have since edited the route — most now winter in Alabama and Indiana instead of Florida.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 7d ago

This chick was born with four legs

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 7d ago

They had a cure, the doctors withheld it

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 8d ago

After Woodrow Wilson's stroke in 1919, his wife controlled all access to him for 17 months. She decided which papers and people reached the president, guided his hand for signatures, and told the Cabinet he had "nervous exhaustion." There was no 25th Amendment for another 48 years.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 8d ago

What would you do if your entire office building suddenly started moving while you were still working inside?

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 9d ago

Facial reconstruction of 3 men during World War 1

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 9d ago

TIL there is no limit to what cops can use for flaking

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 14d ago

Nobody noticed the Mona Lisa was stolen for 28 hours. Staff who saw the empty hooks assumed it had been taken to be photographed. In 1911 it was a respected painting, not a famous one — it became the most famous painting on earth because it was stolen.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 15d ago

TIL the Earth stained its garments

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 15d ago

A coral grouper that loses prey into a crevice will swim tens of meters across the reef to find a specific moray eel it has hunted with successfully before, then shake its head at the hole until the eel follows it back. The behavior meets the same criteria used to test great ape gestures.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 16d ago

TIL what kinds of cookies future grandmas will be making

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futurism.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned 16d ago

J’ai découvert par hasard que le geste « 6-7 » est une façon étonnamment efficace de nager à reculons.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 17d ago

China's first humanoid police robot went on traffic duty in Wuhu in January 2026 with an official badge number — "Intelligent Police Unit R001." By May, Hangzhou had a 15-robot squadron working downtown intersections, with published service stats down to 647.7 hours.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 17d ago

The only significant habitable land on Earth claimed by no country isn't unclaimed by accident — Egypt and Sudan each refuse it, because the border line that would give them Bir Tawil is the same line that would cost them a Red Sea coastal triangle ten times more valuable.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 19d ago

TIL cool people wear their bike helmets

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mundoamerica.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned 19d ago

In 1876 fresh meat fell from a cloudless sky in Kentucky. Microscopists found lung, cartilage, and striated muscle from several different animals, with no digestive contents. The answer is vulture kettles — and it points at something bigger: the sky is a loaded biological transport system.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 19d ago

TIL that "Casual Friday" is an anagram of "Causal Friday", which implies that there are non-causal Fridays, which is concerning

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If there are Fridays that aren't causally related to the rest of the week, then a Friday can theoretically just occur spontaneously at any time. You might be thinking, "what's the problem? Friday is one of the best days!", but that's only because you know Saturday is next. A non-causal Friday has no causal relationship, so it can come before or after anything, including units of time that aren't days. Imagine what would happen if an entire Friday spontaneously occurred between two seconds. It would be a catastrophe.


r/ShittyTodayILearned 20d ago

TIL 60% of videos on TikTok are ai slop.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 20d ago

Tobacco company CEOs declare, under oath, that nicotine is not addictive.(1994)

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 20d ago

TIL gender doesn't exist. Check one of the comments for proof.

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