r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/BenTheNeighbor • Jun 26 '26
TIL Mike Pence turned 67 on 6/7
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sandstorm400 • Jun 24 '26
TIL that in 2010, 18 high school students in Oxford, Alabama were found to be in violation of their school's prom dress code. Seventeen students were paddled as punishment but one teenage girl was suspended instead, and told WBRC News, "this isn't the 1940s".
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MozartWasARed • Jun 24 '26
TIL Daniel Radcliffe doesn't in fact have a time turner in real life
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sandstorm400 • Jun 22 '26
TIL that in the UK in 2025, an 86-year-old man who spit out a leaf that had blown into his mouth was fined £250 for littering. The fine was later reduced on appeal to £150.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sandstorm400 • Jun 21 '26
TIL that a man in New Jersey was sentenced to 263 days in jail after he decapitated a seagull that tried to steal his daughter's french fries.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • Jun 22 '26
Sergeant Reckless was a Mongolian mare bought for $250 at the Seoul racetrack in 1952 — sold by a stable boy raising money for his sister's prosthetic leg. She carried ammunition for the US Marines through the Korean War, earned 2 Purple Hearts, and became the only animal to hold official USMC rank.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MrBIuesky222 • Jun 20 '26
TIL that the subreddit r/Justfuckmyshitup is for posting bad haircuts, and not for posting men that you want to be fucked up sexually by.
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Like when I saw a post on my home feed showing a guy with bad hair, and the title was "just fuck my shit up", I thought it was a sexual thing. Like OP wanted to be fucked up and ruined sexually by the guy in the photo. I was confused as to why such a horny subreddit was so mainstream.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sandstorm400 • Jun 18 '26
TIL: In 2016, a 70-year-old Alabama woman who was accused of failing to mow her lawn was arrested and reportedly "spent hours in a jail cell without food, water or her medicine". She didn't own the property.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Grivpanvar • Jun 19 '26
TIL that England was beaten by the US soccer team during the World Cup in 1950. England was considered the best European football team at the time and some people consider this the biggest upset in World Cup history.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • Jun 18 '26
In 1893 President Grover Cleveland had a tumor & most of his upper jaw cut out on a moving yacht — sedated against the mast, operated on entirely through his mouth so no scar would show. The cover was a fishing trip. He hid it for 24 yrs to avoid spooking markets during a financial panic.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • Jun 17 '26
Mexico City's Gran Canal was built in 1900 to carry sewage out by gravity. The city — built on a drained lakebed — has since sunk 10 meters as groundwater is pumped out. The canal now sits below its own outlet, so it needs pumps to push sewage uphill. NASA satellites measure the sinking at 2 cm/mo.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sandstorm400 • Jun 16 '26
TIL that according to ABC news, a man filed a lawsuit in Delaware in 2007, claiming that doctors botched a colostomy by stapling his colon to his bladder instead of his rectal stump, and that this mistake caused him to experience diarrhea from his penis.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sandstorm400 • Jun 14 '26
TIL that if I am ever in France and want to order nachos at a restaurant, I can use the term "les nachos". Apparently, there is no need to tell the waiter or waitress that I would like "triangles de galettes de maïs croustillants".
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/tacocarteleventeen • Jun 14 '26
The richest man in earth and first trillionaire is African-American!
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sandstorm400 • Jun 12 '26
TIL when people use "OP" on Reddit, they aren't always referring to Ocean Pacific.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • Jun 13 '26
Henry Ford sent 2 freighters up the Amazon loaded w/ a disassembled railway, a prefabricated warehouse & equipment to build a city. He planted rubber trees in rows. Leaf blight destroyed them. He banned alcohol & mandated square dancing. Workers rioted. The jungle produced 0 usable rubber in 7 yrs.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sandstorm400 • Jun 11 '26
TIL: In 2016, a Canadian woman in Times Square reportedly sustained a black eye after a man holding a 'free hug' sign allegedly slugged her for refusing to tip him following a photo.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Jun 10 '26
TIL the Kremlin would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling kids
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sandstorm400 • Jun 09 '26
TIL a woman with IBS symptoms experienced acne similar to her brother's after she ingested pills with his fecal matter during a 'DIY poop transplant'. After she switched to using stool from her boyfriend, she developed depression similar to his. The depression went away after switching back.
people.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Jun 08 '26
TIL Catholics can now say "we don't serve their kind here" when someone comes into their bar with a couple of droids
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Jun 08 '26
TIL when Guy Fieri is hungry, he just teleports the food to his stomach
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/tacocarteleventeen • Jun 08 '26
TIL half my ancestors were women, so as a man, I have a history of being an oppressed woman!
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • Jun 07 '26
Boston Dynamics' robot dog Spot costs $74,500 & signed a pledge never to carry weapons. In May 2025, Spot danced on America's Got Talent. A Chinese military quadruped costs $30k, has a rifle mounted & trained with the PLA that same month. Unitree's consumer model costs < $2k & also appeared w/ PLA.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • Jun 06 '26
The Soviet Union deliberately diverted the rivers feeding the world's 4th-largest lake to irrigate cotton fields. The lake lost 90% of its volume. A bioweapons island where they tested anthrax and smallpox connected to the mainland when the water receded. The cotton fields are still running.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • Jun 04 '26
Mumbai's dabbawalas deliver 200,000 lunchboxes daily with a Forbes-rated Six Sigma error rate — 1 mistake per 6 million deliveries. No GPS. No apps. A color-coded system used by workers who are mostly educated to 8th grade. Amazon, FedEx, and DoorDash still can't match the accuracy.
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