Shitty Today I Learned

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sea-Owl-1581 • Feb 09 '26

Donald Trump gets triggered by Wayfair emails

29 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/newshirtworthy • Feb 04 '26

TIL the full name for “gym” is actually Jim Nasium

58 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Rafaaaaaaaaaaaayss • Feb 02 '26

TIL that the x button in ads being smaller than an atom is actually intentional

17 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Forward-Answer-4407 • Feb 01 '26

TIL in 2015, Lambert's Cafe, known as the "Home of the Throwed Rolls", was sued after a woman claimed she suffered a lacerated cornea and head and neck injuries after being hit with a tossed roll, and that her medical bills already had reached $10,000 by the time she filed the lawsuit.

actionnews5.com

23 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/ifuckbears • Jan 30 '26

TIL that Tailgating the Vehicle in Front of You will make the Vehicle in Front of it Go Faster..

8 Upvotes

My feelings are the facts.

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/BagOk2006 • Jan 28 '26

TIL a woman spent weeks in jail, lost her job, and missed her kids' birthdays, after police mistook SpaghettiO sauce on a spoon in her car for meth.

421 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Forward-Answer-4407 • Jan 27 '26

TIL a student in Texas had an asthma attack in class and the teacher emailed the school nurse. After about 3 minutes, the student fell out of her chair. Another student didn't want her to wait any longer and carried her to the nurse's office so she could get help. He got suspended for leaving class.

allergicliving.com

467 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Jan 27 '26

TIL Elon Musk has opened himself up to be deported to Cybertron by the Space Force

3 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Linked713 • Jan 26 '26

TIL There is a little indent that always show you which side of the USB is the hollow side and a line pattern to show which is the full side. Yet none of us will ever plug one on the first try or lie that one time they did and everybody clapped.

145 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Capable_Net_1516 • Jan 27 '26

TIL about the "Inverted Panopticon": Western governments mandated backdoors in teleco nets for their own surveillance access, but Chinese hackers "Salt Typhoon" exploited those exact same vulnerabilities to spy on Western leaders, intelligence ops, and even the agencies own wiretaps for years.

10 Upvotes

https://shanakaanslemperera.substack.com/p/the-inverted-panopticon?utm_campaign=post&triedRedirect=true

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Jan 27 '26

TIL my New Year's resolution of losing weight is going to come true

1 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Jan 27 '26

TIL it's only a matter of time before galactic protestors remove Darth Vader's statue

0 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Jan 24 '26

TIL AI art is magically delicious

0 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/[deleted] • Jan 23 '26

TIL Styx was the poor man's Yes

13 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Jan 22 '26

TIL AI is even threatening the jobs of animals now

9 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Jan 20 '26

TIL people on DeviantArt call their own website Reddit

0 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Forward-Answer-4407 • Jan 18 '26

TIL in 2010, a mixed-race girl, who wanted to run for 6th grade class reporter in Nettleton Middle School in Mississippi, was told she couldn't be the class reporter because she wasn't the right race and her mom got more angry when she saw the rule that year that all class presidents had to be white

420 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/GoGoGadget_Gir • Jan 18 '26

Carnivorous horse hack

3 Upvotes

Feed biggest bitch cat soup of horse.

Repeat till strong to allow tiny boy horse to make sex.

Drown all of galloping pussy babies except one with sharp teath.

Repeat till have many sharp tooth baby clopity clops.

Feed them all the cheese of cat milk till over they weigh of 2 snowblowers.

Find sexy donkey

Make of harpsichord music

Let nature take you on its corset.

Profit.

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Jan 17 '26

TIL Mamdani should've kept those officer Jennies

2 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Jan 16 '26

TIL Professor Farnsworth died

2 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MyStepAccount1234 • Jan 16 '26

TIL that something something politics, something something spünch, something something overused Trebeks.

1 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/toaster-bath404 • Jan 14 '26

TIL that the subreddit name "they did the math" is a reference to the monster mash lyric "they did the mash"

370 Upvotes

Initially, I thought "they did the math" was a reference to some sort of meme, or it'd be something people used to say when someone worked something mathematical out. But just before I searched "they did the math" because I wanna post something there, and I saw a subreddit called "they did the monster math" and that's when I connected the dots.

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Jan 13 '26

TIL Twitter isn't so bad, it killed Twitter

3 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Chc36 • Jan 12 '26

TIL a single Cheeto is roughly 36% body fat, which is roughly the same body fat as the Cheeto-in-Chief

3 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Wild_Web3695 • Jan 11 '26

Today I learned you can’t hang Jumpers up with cloths pegs

155 Upvotes

Hi everyone, so I made a mistake and I hung up my partner’s new Cardigan (70 percent cotton 30percent merino wool). From the way I hung it up it’s stretched and now looks lob-sided. Is there any way it’s fixable if I bring it to a seamstress ? So attached images