Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NorthKoreanMissile7 on 2025-05-16 02:54:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/theatrenearyou on 2025-05-16 04:36:07+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that when cars were new, hitting a pedestrian was a serious matter called a motor killing. As it happened more as there were more cars and more crashes, Car Manufacturers hired public relations spin doctors to invent the word Jaywalker to shift fault to pedestrians for getting hurt and dying.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/shibafather on 2025-05-16 03:28:48+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Black Monday during the Hundred Years' War, in which a sudden hailstorm killed around 1000 English soldiers and up to 6,000 horses in only half an hour. The carnage convinced the English king that the storm was God's wrath, and he sued for peace with the French the next day.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/zahrul3 on 2025-05-16 03:22:04+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the original Pentium had a hardware design fault that made it unable to accurately compute certain large floating point divisions, such as dividing 4,195,835 by 3,145,727. This resulted in a $475 million loss to Intel after its recall.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/farligjakt on 2025-05-16 00:06:53+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ganesha811 on 2025-05-16 00:46:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ough_two on 2025-05-16 00:35:36+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/No_Material3111 on 2025-05-16 00:22:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Melenduwir on 2025-05-15 22:47:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DuffThey on 2025-05-15 22:08:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ModenaR on 2025-05-15 20:47:47+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 2002, McDonald's attracted significant public criticism, after It released a burger in Norway and Denmark called "McAfrika", just as a major famine was occurring in Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia, Lesotho and Swaziland

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MrMiracle27 on 2025-05-15 20:06:25+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Hans Zimmer had to write foreign language lyrics for the 32 dubbed versions of the song ' Spider pig ' in advance of the international releases of the Simpsons movie. He found Spanish the hardest to write, and the choir learnt to sing the song in each language.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NYstate on 2025-05-15 19:37:55+00:00.

Original Title: TIL When musician Prince died, he left behind a vault containing nearly 8,000 unreleased songs but he had forgotten the combination. Measuring 6 1/2 feet tall, several feet wide, and weighing 6,000 pounds, the massive vault required a professional safecracker to break into it

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/PitchSmithCo on 2025-05-15 19:53:36+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that nearly one-quarter of Manhattan is built on landfill. Notable examples include Battery Park City, constructed using material excavated during the World Trade Center’s construction, and Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, developed atop decades of coal ash and garbage dumps.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/-AMARYANA- on 2025-05-15 18:52:30+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Brad Pitt created a cashmere line with a friend after she had a dream about him telling a stylist he wanted more 'green and softness in his life'. He told her that he actually said that same thing to a stylist around the same time. The two took it as a sign from the Universe to start a company.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Nervous_Produce1800 on 2025-05-15 20:13:46+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that of the 44 original colonists who founded Los Angeles, only two were White. Of the other 42, 26 had some degree of African ancestry and 16 were Indians or mestizos [people of mixed Spanish and Indian blood].

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NateNate60 on 2025-05-15 19:55:27+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that up until the 1970s, American insurance companies put vending machines at airport ticket counters which sold plane crash life insurance policies. This practice ended when courts started strictly enforcing the policies against the insurers.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/brevity-soul-wit on 2025-05-15 16:14:12+00:00.

Original Title: TIL James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale exercised influence over "rotten" boroughs like Cockermouth and had an affair with a tenant upon whose death he refused burial and placed her decaying corpse in a glass-topped coffin in a cupboard. He was often called "the Earl of Toadstool" or "Wicked Jimmy."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GoCartMozart1980 on 2025-05-15 14:58:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/princezornofzorna on 2025-05-15 18:17:55+00:00.

Original Title: TIL since the Joker card isn't standardized, each manufacturer makes their own unique designs, making them a coveted collectible. The largest joker card collection documented has more than 8,000 cards

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/kramerica_intern on 2025-05-15 16:03:56+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Dr. Benjamin Rush who provided the Corps of Discovery with 600 "Dr. Rush's Bilious Pills," powerful laxatives containing 50% mercury, colloquially called "thunderclappers." The high mercury content provided a tracer that has allowed the Corps' campsites to be identified via soil testing.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JoeyZasaa on 2025-05-15 15:10:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Nodebunny on 2025-05-15 15:10:08+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the Magna Carta of 1215 introduced legal principles like due process, trial by jury, and limits on arbitrary authority, ideas that later influenced multiple amendments in the U.S. Constitution.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Comprehensive_Read35 on 2025-05-15 14:48:45+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/rocklou on 2025-05-15 13:12:26+00:00.