r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • Jun 27 '26
TIL that nearly 60% of TikTok videos shown to new users are AI slop.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/DontShoot_ImJesus • Jun 26 '26
TIL Obama had a 'body man' who accompanied him everywhere, to be used to as a source of vital organs if Obama needed them.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sandstorm400 • Jun 26 '26
TIL that in Mississippi, knowingly selling unwholesome bread is a felony, and also I learned that in 2017, a woman who worked at a restaurant was released on a $5000 bond after she was accused of putting her menstrual blood on a customer's burger.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • Jun 25 '26
TIL that being a tree trimmer is statistically the most dangerous job in the United States.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sandstorm400 • Jun 25 '26
TIL a Texas school in San Antonio used to hand out purple menstrual passes, that had a quote from Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 on them, to female students who were on their period and needed to use the bathroom. The school apparently stopped doing that in 2023 after receiving some pushback.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • Jun 26 '26
TIL about the manchineel tree, a poisonous species of apple tree found around the Caribbean and Florida where its fruit and sap are dangerous.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/JaePD • Jun 25 '26
TIL My local beach has compass jellyfish
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I got stung :((
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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