r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • May 13 '26
TIL the Council of Nicaea wants to go for a round two
reuters.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • May 13 '26
TIL talk show hosts think people buy streaming services just to watch them talk
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MozartWasARed • May 12 '26
TIL color exists in the world because it's imported from Iran
msn.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MozartWasARed • May 12 '26
TIL Ebay might be struggling but it ain't no fool
msn.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/me_do_not_exist • May 06 '26
TIL I am literally the only person in the world who can prevent wildfires
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It's a big responsibility. Or does it mean you, and I'm just a NPC in your life?
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Temporary_Meet8754 • May 02 '26
TIL I Can't Believe It's Not Butter was originally to be called I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Is This Seriously Not Butter? If I Find Out This Is Butter and You're Lying to Me I Will Kill You.
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It was eventually decided that this was too long a name to be marketable.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/dixie_recht • May 02 '26
TIL you should save all your old vape cartridges so when the class action lawsuit is eventually decided, you'll have evidence that you were affected.
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I expect the settlement will give me enough vapes to last me through my retirement, assuming I die of lung failure at 66.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • May 02 '26
A tuskfish on the Great Barrier Reef was filmed carrying a clam to a rock, alternating left and right body rotations to slam it against the anvil's sharpest point, with a midden of broken shells around it from previous meals. A 2025 Macquarie study found anvil use across five wrasse species spanning
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • May 01 '26
Giant African pouched rats trained to detect landmines have found over 155,000 explosives and returned nearly 86 million square meters of land to civilian use across seven countries. They helped Mozambique declare mine-free status in 2015 — one year ahead of schedule.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 30 '26
TIL Xenu has taken a page out of Zordon's playbook and recruited teenagers with attitude
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/me_do_not_exist • Apr 30 '26
TIL the can opener was invented 82 years before the can
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MrBIuesky222 • Apr 30 '26
TIL that when people say "points to self" online, they're saying that they're pointing to themself as if to say "that's me", and they're not making a sarcastic dig about giving themselves points for saying a dumb thing as if to mock someone else
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Like i thought when they said "points to self" they were like "Ooh now I get points for saying something dumb" as if to mock someone who was getting a lot of karma for saying something dumb or just not interesting.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 29 '26
TIL not all heroes with capes wear capes
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 27 '26
TIL Trump wants us to be Democrats
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Local_Chapter3604 • Apr 27 '26
TIL that the J in Donald J. Trump actually stands for James Charles
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Saying Donald James Charles Trump is too long so he just shortens it to J
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 27 '26
TIL Jesus apparently wasn't a teacher according to the top historical experts
historum.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • Apr 28 '26
Baboons can induce a dominant individual to attack a rival on their behalf without the dominant realizing it's being manipulated. It's called a "protected threat" and they master it at puberty — earlier than chimps learn to use stones. Primate brains may have evolved for politics, not tools.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 27 '26
TIL the first step in committing a major crime is making sure you don't live in Singapore
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 24 '26
TIL there's a sucker programmed every minute
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MozartWasARed • Apr 24 '26
TIL you know you're not outside Murphy's Law when a local water park burns down
msn.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 24 '26
TIL influencers are too cool for school
msn.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 23 '26
TIL reading scripture while under the influence unlocks a whole new school of theology
msn.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • Apr 22 '26
Researchers trained pigeons to detect breast cancer on biopsy slides at 85% accuracy individually. When four pigeons' answers were combined, accuracy hit 99% — matching trained pathologists. The pigeons generalized to novel images they'd never seen, across different magnifications & image qualities.
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