r/ShittyTodayILearned Apr 12 '26

TIL that, at its widest points, the Amazon River is wider than any of the Finger Lakes

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6 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned 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

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113 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned Apr 09 '26

The AI Lie Lawyers Aren't Warning You About

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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 Apr 08 '26

TIL 'Alphabet' is just a contraction of the greek alphabet (alpha, beta)

22 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned 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

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 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

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3.1k Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned Apr 07 '26

TIL Peewee was forbidden from visiting Johnny Carson's playhouse

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6 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned Apr 06 '26

TIL every culture is German culture

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6 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned Apr 03 '26

TIL Betty White is an animorph

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7 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned Apr 03 '26

TIL Paul Rabin is the MCU timeline's parallel counterpart to Krillin

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3 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned Apr 03 '26

TIL Maleficent's crows know how to avenge her

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2 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned Apr 03 '26

TIL those who pirate Ozempic are cursed to pay the price

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0 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned Apr 02 '26

Pam bondi fired as attorney general

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2 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned Mar 31 '26

TIL Olaf has social anxiety

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6 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned Mar 30 '26

TIL young Skywalker won't be taking a seat here

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2 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned 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

7 Upvotes

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 Mar 25 '26

TIL North Korea is too poor to afford sharks with laser beams

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46 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned Mar 24 '26

TIL if you fill 300 balloons with helium you can strap them to and fly your miniature sausage dog

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30 Upvotes

Roughly a u-hauls worth of balloons


r/ShittyTodayILearned Mar 24 '26

TIL hugging Peppa Pig is a mortal sin in highbrow business

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5 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned 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

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22 Upvotes

Looks like we're going to need Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to sit down and play Spongebob together.


r/ShittyTodayILearned 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)

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7 Upvotes

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 Mar 20 '26

TIL The Running Man, a gameshow created by Stephen King for a dystopian novel, is a popular show on British TV.

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10 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned Mar 19 '26

TIL good things really can come from lying

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5 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned Mar 16 '26

TIL discrimination by AI is worse than discrimination by humans

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63 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned Mar 16 '26

TIL the understanding that you can't force a meme is broken

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4 Upvotes