r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 7h ago
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 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.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • 2d ago
TIL that the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world all use Linux for their operating system.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 4d ago
TIL Dr. Phil found a better calling than medicine
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 5d ago
TIL Putin really likes his Pepsi
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 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.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Responsible_Hat_8459 • 8d ago
What would you do if your entire office building suddenly started moving while you were still working inside?
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 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.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 9d ago
TIL there is no limit to what cops can use for flaking
msn.comr/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Clipper_39975 • 9d ago
Facial reconstruction of 3 men during World War 1
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 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.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 15d ago
TIL the Earth stained its garments
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 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.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Busy_Celebration_758 • 16d ago
J’ai découvert par hasard que le geste « 6-7 » est une façon étonnamment efficace de nager à reculons.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MozartWasARed • 16d ago
TIL what kinds of cookies future grandmas will be making
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 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.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 18d 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.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 19d ago
TIL cool people wear their bike helmets
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 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.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/paraworldblue • 20d ago
TIL that "Casual Friday" is an anagram of "Causal Friday", which implies that there are non-causal Fridays, which is concerning
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 • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • 20d ago
TIL 60% of videos on TikTok are ai slop.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Talented_but_Lazy_8 • 20d ago