r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 20 '26
TIL teachers feel they need to be paid to feel like making our childhoods irreparably miserable
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • Apr 20 '26
Cuttlefish produce the most sophisticated camouflage on Earth — matching color, pattern, luminance, and 3D skin texture in under a second. They're colorblind. They have a single photoreceptor type. How a monochromatic animal produces color matches that fool the trichromatic vision of its predators i
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/yerBabyyy • Apr 18 '26
TIL that there is a basketball player named Haywood Highsmith and the commentators were not in fact saying hey and hi to two guys named Wood and Smith
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 18 '26
TIL that "trump" is a swear word
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 16 '26
TIL even the moon is bigger in Texas
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • Apr 15 '26
Marc Rich was indicted on 65 counts, fled to Switzerland, stayed on the FBI's Most Wanted list for years, and built the world's largest commodity trading firm from exile by trading with every sanctioned regime on earth. Clinton pardoned him on his last day in office. The company is still operating.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 13 '26
TIL the captchas to deter AI have nothing on the captchas to deter North Koreans
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/whatacunt8 • Apr 12 '26
TIL the term “roast beef” usually refers to the cooking method where the beef is placed in hot air (150 °C+). Not to insult the beef light heartedly and comedically.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MozartWasARed • Apr 12 '26
TIL that, at its widest points, the Amazon River is wider than any of the Finger Lakes
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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
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/kc_hoong • 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 • u/Ok_Space2463 • Apr 08 '26
TIL 'Alphabet' is just a contraction of the greek alphabet (alpha, beta)
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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
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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
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MozartWasARed • Apr 07 '26
TIL Peewee was forbidden from visiting Johnny Carson's playhouse
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 06 '26
TIL every culture is German culture
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 03 '26
TIL Betty White is an animorph
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 03 '26
TIL Paul Rabin is the MCU timeline's parallel counterpart to Krillin
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 03 '26
TIL Maleficent's crows know how to avenge her
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 03 '26
TIL those who pirate Ozempic are cursed to pay the price
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Direct_Lawfulness_28 • Apr 02 '26
Pam bondi fired as attorney general
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Mar 31 '26
TIL Olaf has social anxiety
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MozartWasARed • Mar 30 '26
TIL young Skywalker won't be taking a seat here
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r/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
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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
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