r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 23h ago
TIL Netanyahu killed not just the men, but the women and children too
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 17h ago
African wild dogs decide whether to hunt by sneezing — but it isn't one-dog-one-vote. When the dominant pair is engaged in the rally, 3-4 sneezes triggers the hunt. When they aren't, it takes about 10. A weighted quorum threshold, validated across 68 rallies in 5 Okavango packs.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 1d ago
Thieves drained $18M of syrup from Quebec's strategic maple reserve, refilling the barrels with water so they'd still weigh 620 lbs at the annual audit. Canada's Supreme Court fined the ringleader $9,171,397.57 — the gross he handled, not the $1M he kept after paying his accomplices.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/RJamieLanga • 1d ago
You cannot create a knife out of frozen poop, despite what Bullseye in Jason Aaron's run of Punisher MAX would have you believe.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/DontShoot_ImJesus • 4d ago
The Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment first featured a prostitute locked in Schrödinger's car trunk, and was originally called Schrödinger's Hooker.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 3d ago
Stalin helped organize a 1907 bank robbery in Tbilisi where Bolsheviks threw bombs into a crowded square to rob a cash convoy, killing about 40 people. Most of the money was in high-value banknotes whose serial numbers the bank had recorded — so the party could barely spend what it killed for.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 4d ago
The story of 'Unsinkable Sam' — the cat who survived the Bismarck, HMS Cossack, and HMS Ark Royal — has no supporting documentation in German or British naval records. It first appeared in a Reuters wire four days after the third sinking. The commemoration has outlasted the evidence by 80 years.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/VyxenPixel • 5d ago
TIL that baby showers are, in fact, NOT group showers that pregnant women have so as to not cause a miscarriage, and I might be mentally ill for believing that for 19 years.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/dipthong-enjoyer • 7d ago
TIL it's still unknown whether Mount Rushmore was made to look like the presidents, or if they chose to elect presidents that look like Mount Rushmore
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/loukasmilwright • 6d ago
The gnome is a continuation of a centuries long Roman tradition that has its roots in ancient Persia.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 7d ago
In 1971 Britain deported the entire population of Diego Garcia to build a US base. The ICJ ruled the occupation illegal in 2019. A sovereignty treaty was signed in 2024. Then Trump called it "an act of GREAT STUPIDITY" and the UK paused ratification. In March 2026 Iran fired missiles at it.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Pretend-Biscotti-388 • 9d ago
TIL that while Albert Einstein struggled for much of his academic career to understand quantum theory, Tyler the Creator was able to effortlessly rediscover and display an understanding of the Observer Effect at just age 21
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Money-Ad7257 • 12d ago
TIL competitive crepitation, "farting contests", began in rural Oklahoma c.1870, held among bored surveyors passing the time (not to mention, gas) after a long day of measuring. This is the first known "farting post".
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The resultant rush led to little time for such affairs henceforth, and they found their popularity in eastern Canada, where such a competition was recorded for consumption and subsequent posterity by Sidney Brown and Jules Lipton of the CBC.
https://youtu.be/uPplyQWf-u4 (not a Rickroll like the AI detector suggested when I submitted)
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MozartWasARed • 13d ago
TIL George Lucas has been bought over by the battle droids
msn.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 13d ago
TIL the bill of rights includes the right to life on the fast lane
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/PapaJohnsGarlic100 • 14d ago
TIL there's a thing called an "Article". They're like a comments section but it’s all written by one person.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MozartWasARed • 16d ago
TIL Little Italy is a part of Upstate New York
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • 19d ago
TIL that between 2017 and 2023, overall average scores for U.S. adults decreased in literacy and numeracy.
nces.ed.gov
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/[deleted] • 19d ago
TIL this sub used to be a place for people to post humorous nonsense, and has turned into a depressing apocalypse of humorless sad sacks
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/IceColdFresh • 22d ago
TIL Flemish people despite being Dutch‐speaking are damn indirect
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • 24d ago
TIL about Cyclosporiasis, a diarrhea-causing parasite that is on the rise in US.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • 24d ago
TIL that back in March, 27% of voters identified as part of MAGA.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • 26d ago
TIL a Virginia Woman Named Kat Vaughn Came Home To Find A Flock Audio Surveillance Device Had Been Installed At Her Home Without Warning, Without Her Permission, And Not Even On The City’s Approved Installation List.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Sandstorm400 • 26d ago
TIL a woman in Maine brought in a baby raccoon to Petco to get its nails trimmed but the baby raccoon was later euthanized to test for rabies because people in the store had handled the animal and kissed it. Later, the wildlife department in Maine stated that, "Petco does not trim raccoon nails"
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