Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Front_Requirement598 on 2025-05-05 12:38:19+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-05-05 07:02:32+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Stephen King never cashed the $5,000 check that Frank Darabont paid him in 1987 for the rights to adapt his novella 'Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption'. Eventually, King had the check framed and returned it to Darabont with a note that read, "In case you ever need bail money. Love, Steve."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-05-05 07:01:44+00:00.

Original Title: TIL after Post Malone found out that other patrons at the Houston bar he was in had covered his check, he asked the waitress to charge him for anything so he could leave a tip. The waitress then rang him up for a $1 bill, and in return, he tipped her $20,000, leaving a total of $20,001.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AnimeFanJP on 2025-05-05 04:35:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TriviaDuchess on 2025-05-05 00:27:45+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 1830, Captain Robert FitzRoy of HMS Beagle abducted a native Yaghan boy, later named Jemmy Button, to England after a boat theft incident. In 1833, Jemmy was returned home to Tierra del Fuego with Charles Darwin during the Beagle’s famous voyage.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/xindierockx7114 on 2025-05-05 00:24:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/yooolka on 2025-05-04 21:51:17+00:00.

Original Title: TIL TV shows love hiring twins for newborn roles. Twins double the filming time (they swap them out) and, since they’re often born premature and smaller, they look more like fresh newborns on screen, even if they’re actually a few weeks old.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ok-Confidence-2137 on 2025-05-04 20:44:14+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ryry50583583 on 2025-05-04 19:52:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2025-05-04 18:10:47+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2009 a man hid a bomb inside his anus in an attempt to assassinate saudi prince Muhammad bin Nayef, which was described as "a novel technique". Even though he got within hand-shake distance from the prince, his body absorbed most of the blast, so Bin Nayef was only slightly injured

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/dfranke on 2025-05-04 17:56:39+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that after the 1855 death of the great mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, his brain was preserved for study and became the subject of numerous papers. It was only discovered in 1998 that the his label had gotten swapped with that of the brain of pathologist Conrad Fuchs who died the same year.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/HailTheWhale0 on 2025-05-04 16:38:28+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MrMojoFomo on 2025-05-04 16:22:18+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Richard Nixon had the White House Secret Service Uniformed Division's uniforms redesigned for formal occasions in 1969. The white and gold uniforms were widely criticized, and subsequently pulled from service. Many eventually wound up as high school marching band uniforms

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/nulld3v on 2025-05-04 15:29:12+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 1982 ecological activist Chaïm Nissim fired five RPG-7 rockets into the Superphénix nuclear reactor in France as protest of its construction. He was never caught, only revealing his involvement 21 years later, calling the attack "non-violent" and "quite beautiful".

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ssAskcuSzepS on 2025-05-04 14:38:34+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 1979 the campaign promise of two guys running for student government included bringing the Statue of Liberty Wisconsin. When they won, they spent $4,000 of University funds creating a replica of Lady Liberty buried up to her eyes in frozen Lake Menota

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-05-04 14:21:48+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Eminem used actual information about Anthony Mackie's real life in his final rap battle versus Mackie's Papa Doc in 8 Mile (2002), making fun of his actual upbringing for the scene. Mackie said Em searched him online & learned about his nice childhood which Em then used against him in the scene.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-05-04 12:49:19+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 1990 a truck driver jumped into a moat in an enclosure at the Detroit Zoo to save a chimpanzee from drowning when the chimp inexplicably jumped into the water. He said "Everyone in the whole place was just standing around watching this monkey drown", so he knew he had to do somethng about it.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 on 2025-05-04 11:11:02+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that on 8th May 1945 on "Victory in Europe Day", the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret secretly slipped out of Buckingham Palace to join London’s jubilant crowds. Queen Elizabeth later described this as “one of the most memorable nights of my life.”

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ModenaR on 2025-05-04 09:19:49+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that, after the retirement of Pelé in 1977, much of the progress that American soccer had made during his stay was lost. There was no star player at the same level to replace him, so attendances dropped after 1980. The entire North American Soccer League folded at the end of 1984

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