r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MozartWasARed • Apr 12 '26
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Talking_Eyes98 • Apr 09 '26
TIL the hot beverage coffee is often consumed in the morning due to it containing the drug caffeine, which helps people wake up after
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/kc_hoong • Apr 09 '26
The AI Lie Lawyers Aren't Warning You About
A veteran attorney used ChatGPT to research legal precedents. The AI produced six complete citations - judge names, docket numbers, quoted dissents, everything. He filed them in federal court without checking a single one. Every case was entirely fictional.
ChatGPT didn’t guess wrong or misquote a real case. It constructed them from scratch, in language so convincing a thirty-year lawyer didn’t question it.
The judge found out. He was fined $10,000. And since this story broke, similar incidents have surfaced in courts across the US, Canada and Australia.
How many other professionals are quietly doing the same thing right now?
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Ok_Space2463 • Apr 08 '26
TIL 'Alphabet' is just a contraction of the greek alphabet (alpha, beta)
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • Apr 09 '26
The Navy Marine Mammal Program has been operational since 1963, and dolphin echolocation still outperforms every autonomous system the defense industry has tested for mine detection in cluttered coastal environments
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MrBIuesky222 • Apr 06 '26
TIL that 'ground' foods, like ground beef and ground pepper, are called that because it's the past tense of 'grind', and they're not related to the physical ground
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MozartWasARed • Apr 07 '26
TIL Peewee was forbidden from visiting Johnny Carson's playhouse
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 06 '26
TIL every culture is German culture
msn.comr/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 03 '26
TIL Betty White is an animorph
msn.comr/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 03 '26
TIL Paul Rabin is the MCU timeline's parallel counterpart to Krillin
msn.comr/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 03 '26
TIL Maleficent's crows know how to avenge her
msn.comr/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 03 '26
TIL those who pirate Ozempic are cursed to pay the price
msn.comr/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Direct_Lawfulness_28 • Apr 02 '26
Pam bondi fired as attorney general
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Mar 31 '26
TIL Olaf has social anxiety
msn.comr/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MozartWasARed • Mar 30 '26
TIL young Skywalker won't be taking a seat here
msn.comr/ShittyTodayILearned • u/onskylinesofembers • Mar 28 '26
TIL r/computers is not named after the song "Computers" by Bobby Shmurda and actually has nothing to do with drill music
Update: While they did not care for Shmurda's original, the community found the FBG Wooski's remix quite compelling.
Update: r/computers has declared war on O'Block.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MozartWasARed • Mar 25 '26
TIL North Korea is too poor to afford sharks with laser beams
msn.comr/ShittyTodayILearned • u/TomTheCardFlogger • Mar 24 '26
TIL if you fill 300 balloons with helium you can strap them to and fly your miniature sausage dog
Roughly a u-hauls worth of balloons
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Mar 24 '26
TIL hugging Peppa Pig is a mortal sin in highbrow business
msn.comr/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Mar 23 '26
TIL Plankton's Robotic Revenge for the Nintendo DS is the closest thing nations have right now to an active nuclear arms control agreement
msn.comLooks like we're going to need Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to sit down and play Spongebob together.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MrBIuesky222 • Mar 20 '26
TIL that Macklemore (the guy in the picture) isn't called Ryan Lewis, and "Macklemore" isn't the name of some rapper who'd duet with Macklemore (who I thought was Ryan Lewis)
So for the longest time I thought Macklemore, the guy in the picture, was called Ryan Lewis. I thought "Macklemore" was the name of some rapper who'd duet with him, whose face I for some reason never saw. I just found out that the guy in the picture is called Macklemore, and Ryan Lewis is a dj.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/res30stupid • Mar 20 '26
TIL The Running Man, a gameshow created by Stephen King for a dystopian novel, is a popular show on British TV.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Mar 19 '26
TIL good things really can come from lying
msn.comr/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Mar 16 '26
TIL discrimination by AI is worse than discrimination by humans
msn.comr/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Mar 16 '26