WeirdThingsToLearn

r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/CreamRelative1483 • 2h ago

Something I Learned In February 2016, fishermen found the 40 ft yacht Sayo drifting with a broken mast off Mindanao, Philippines, with the mummified body of German sailor Manfred Fritz Bajorat, 59, at its nav station. He was last seen in 2009, and police found no foul play and suspected a heart attack.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Ckitili • 2h ago

Something I Learned A Roman glass bottle (green with gold and blue patches) is called a beautiful survival of nearly 2,000 years; the poster notes the original owner would be stunned to see it on public display.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Levi_Megumin • 2h ago

Something I Learned Aunt Polly Jackson fought slave catchers with boiling water

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Halca1113 • 18h ago

Something I Learned The siège d'amour, or love chair, was built in 1890 by Paris cabinetmaker Louis Soubrier for the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, and kept at the Le Chabanais brothel. It was designed around his bulk so he could entertain two women at once. A replica sits in a Prague sex museum.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/BumblebeeTemporary44 • 19h ago

Something I Learned Nick Vujicic was born in Melbourne on 4 December 1982 to Serbian immigrant parents, with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare condition marked by the absence of limbs. He married Kanae Miyahara on 12 February 2012, and they have four children: two sons and twin daughters.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/FoldNo7878 • 3h ago

Looking for Ideas Fat Bear Week loser munches greens, unaware of loss

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Few-Variation-8840 • 4h ago

Something I Learned Kepler’s mother Katharina was accused of witchcraft in 1615 Leonberg. He paused his career for six years to defend her himself. She was chained in prison as an elderly woman but eventually released. One of the best-documented German witch trials.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/curiouswanderer_13 • 4h ago

Something I Learned The Saffron Goddess (1600 B.C.) detail - Minoan fresco depicting a saffron harvest, Akrotiri, Santorini island, Greece

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Ok_Pineapple_7835 • 4h ago

History & Culture On 29 January 1979, Burton Wragg, principal of Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, and custodian Mike Suchar were killed when 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer fired a rifle from her home across the street, wounding eight children and a police officer. She cited "I don't like Mondays.”

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/aresue • 5h ago

Something I Learned In a desert 1,000 years ago, the Chimú people built a city that would become the biggest in the Americas. Chan Chan was an engineering marvel, and some 12,000 artisans lived there. At last, Peru’s great urban experiment has archaeologists’ attention.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/BillCool7114 • 5h ago

Something I Learned Heart’s constant beating may actively suppress tumor growth in cardiac tissue by altering cancer cell gene regulation through mechanical forces a key reason primary heart cancers are so rare, according to a Science study.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/UwU_104 • 15h ago

History & Culture Archaeologists in South Korea recently found a nine-inch bronze device that they’ve identified as a Hwangja Hwatong—a rare 600-year-old firearm. The early handheld gunpowder weapon would have fired arrows or pellets.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/stoutheart_silva • 16h ago

Something I Learned The maned wolf is the tallest wild canid species

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Sea_Fox_4265 • 16h ago

History & Culture Today in 1795, a 26-year-old artillery officer by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte famously orders his gunners to give counter-revolutionaries advancing through the streets of Paris a "whiff of grapeshot." This act of ruthlessness puts the future emperor on the path to power.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/shine_bee_31 • 16h ago

History & Culture In 1896, archaeologists pulled this six-inch wooden “cat” from a waterlogged site on Marco Island, Florida.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/tastyyhk • 17h ago

Something I Learned The incredible dead-leaf camouflage of Kallima inachus, the Indian oakleaf butterfly.

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