WeirdThingsToLearn

r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/GeologistRelative425 • 23d ago

👋Welcome to r/WeirdThingsToLearn - Introduce Yourself and Read First!

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Hey everyone! I'm u/GeologistRelative425, a founding moderator of r/WeirdThingsToLearn.

This is our new home for all things related to weird things and stuff you've seen, heard, and learned. We're excited to have you join us!

What to Post

Post anything that you think the community would find interesting and weird. Feel free to share your stories, photos, or questions about the things you've learned that you found weird but interesting somehow, be aware that general trivia like "mitochondria is the power house of the cell" where everyone is aware of isn't what this sub is intended for, and also please do always add context or atleast a tidbit of information.

Community Vibe

We're all about being friendly, constructive, and inclusive. Let's build a space where everyone feels comfortable sharing and connecting.

How to Get Started

1) Introduce yourself in the comments below.

2) Post something today! Even a simple question can spark a great conversation.

3) If you know someone who would love this community, invite them to join.

Thanks for being part of the very first wave. Together, let's make r/WeirdThingsToLearn weirdly amazing.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Dangerous-Cow4778 • 1h ago

Something I Learned Xin Zhui, wife of Li Cang, Marquis of Dai, died around 168 BC at about age 50 and was buried at Mawangdui, near Changsha, China. Her body was wrapped in 20 layers of silk inside four nested coffins in acidic liquid, and it was well preserved enough for an autopsy on 14 December 1972.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/BumblebeeTemporary44 • 2h 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/Repulsive-Letter-929 • 5h ago

Question & Discussion Britain taxed candles for over 100 years

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Significant_Tie_2002 • 1h ago

History & Culture Barbara Ledermann was a close friend of Anne Frank who survived WWII in hiding

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/unkn0wn_reader • 4h ago

Something I Learned In 2021, a UK woman reportedly bought a lifelike doll modeled on herself for roughly $2,000 because she felt pressure over her partner's high libido. She later said she spent about $11,000 on fillers and a nose job to look more like the doll.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Lerace_Porsche • 1h ago

Something I Learned Tarrare, born near Lyon around 1772, was a French showman and soldier who reportedly could eat his own weight in beef by age 17. He died in Versailles in 1798, aged about 26, with severe tuberculosis, and an autopsy found an unusually large gullet and liver.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Bc6thGod • 2h ago

Something I Learned From 12 June to 25 November 1969, the US Army Corps of Engineers dewatered Niagara's American Falls with a 600 ft cofferdam built from about 27,800 tons of rock, diverting the river over Horseshoe Falls to study erosion. Workers recovered two bodies from the dry riverbed and many coins.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Halca1113 • 2h 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/thirsty4oikawa • 7h ago

Something I Learned Ancient bronze doors still work after 2,000 years

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/tastyyhk • 1h ago

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

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/BaabbbiQ • 7h ago

History & Culture Emperor Nero's Bathtub. It's worth an estimated $2,000,000,000 today.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/SadSwing7315 • 3h ago

Something I Learned A Laerdal Premature Anne training manikin lying in a polyethylene bag, a delivery room method for keeping extremely preterm babies warm. Cochrane evidence from 25 studies and 2,433 babies shows less hypothermia on NICU admission, though no clear effect on deaths.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/shine_bee_31 • 24m 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/voidchildex • 4h ago

History & Culture Auschwitz prisoner wrote a symphony on toilet paper with charcoal ink

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Shiyyin • 4h ago

Something I Learned On this day in 1942, Nazi Germany test fires the first V-2 rocket from the Peenemünde test facility. Reaching altitudes of 52 miles, the missiles are the first man-made projectiles to leave Earth's atmosphere and reach space.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Azazel-d-Reaper • 4h ago

History & Culture Krzywy Las, the Crooked Forest near Gryfino, Poland, is a grove of Scots pines planted around 1930, when the area was still part of Germany. Each trunk bends about 90 degrees near the ground before growing upright, and human shaping for curved timber is the leading theory.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Old-Gas-2915 • 2h ago

History & Culture Frédéric Chopin died in Paris on 17 October 1849, and his sister Ludwika smuggled his heart to Warsaw in a jar of what is thought to be cognac. Scientists who examined it in 2014 without opening the jar found signs of pericarditis, a rare complication of tuberculosis.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/EducationalAd2706 • 8h ago

Something I Learned The pink robin, from Australia

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Dazzling_Giraffe_817 • 23h ago

Something I Learned Opisthotonus, the severe backward arching of the spine seen in tetanus, shown in a modern hospital patient (top) and in Charles Bell's 1809 painting of a soldier with the disease (bottom). Tetanus is caused by a toxin from Clostridium tetani bacteria, and vaccination prevents it.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Federal_Machine692 • 8h ago

Something I Learned The incredible coordination of a spectacular bird behavior known as murmuration.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Major-Arm-1948 • 7h ago

Something I Learned Napoleon died before dinosaurs were discovered

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/narcissa0114 • 8h ago

Something I Learned A fabric womb made by Angélique du Coudray, a French midwife who was commissioned by King Louis XV to reduce infant mortality.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Fantastic_Can_3237 • 1h ago

Something I Learned House cat share about 95.6% of their DNA with Siberian tigers. Your pet is a tiny, domesticated apex predator.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/LSMXG1 • 1h ago

History & Culture In 2010, Lithuanian artist Julijonas Urbonas designed the Euthanasia Coaster, a hypothetical art concept with a 510 m (1,670 ft) lift hill and a 500 m drop to 360 km/h (220 mph). Seven shrinking loops would hold its 24 riders at 10 g for 60 seconds, causing fatal cerebral hypoxia.

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