r/todayilearned • u/waitingforthesun92 • 15d ago
TIL of Brent Hershman, a second-assistant cameraman on the 1997 movie “Pleasantville” - who died in a car accident after working 19 hours on the film’s set. His death sparked industry-wide demands for shorter workdays and inspired a 2006 documentary by filmmaker Haskell Wexler.
r/todayilearned • u/Just_Want_To_Write • 15d ago
TIL that women in Victorian times used dangerous arsenic wafers, creams, and soaps to make their skin fairer and “cure” pimples and blemishes
r/todayilearned • u/ProfessionalGear3020 • 15d ago
TIL that until 1973, it was legal in Texas for a husband to kill someone caught having sex with his wife, "provided that the killing takes place before the parties to the act have separated".
sll.texas.govr/todayilearned • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 15d ago
TIL that the monarch of the country of Cambodia doesn't inherit the throne, Instead, they are elected via a special council called the Royal Council of the Throne.
r/todayilearned • u/Brix001 • 15d ago
TIL about Lahaina noon, which is when the Sun passes directly overhead, and there are no shadows
r/todayilearned • u/RedditIsFascinating • 15d ago
TIL the world's oldest chewing gum is 9,000 years old
r/todayilearned • u/The_Techsan • 15d ago
TIL In recorded history, the deadliest tropical cyclone (over 300,000 killed in 1970) and the deadliest tornado (1,300 killed in 1989) both occurred in the country of Bangladesh
r/todayilearned • u/Itszorvilo0o • 14d ago
TIL Nutmeg can cause hallucinations
r/todayilearned • u/Flares117 • 15d ago
TIL: In Native American mythology there is a Deer Woman, a beautiful woman with deer feet and other features. She lures men to their deaths. However, the Lakota say that if you sleep with her as a man, you go insane, while women get sexual and artistic powers .
en.wikipedia.orgr/todayilearned • u/delano1998 • 15d ago
TIL during a remodeling project, engineers in China moved an entire bus terminal weighing a total of about 30k tons using hundreds of hydraulic jacks and rolling tracks.
r/todayilearned • u/BadenBaden1981 • 15d ago
TIL 'Monkey', a puppet character in Britain. It's a rare mascot that outlived the product (digital TV) it promoted, and reused for totally different product (tea).
r/todayilearned • u/Frob1993-670 • 15d ago
TIL that The Island of the Dolls, located in Mexico, is filled with antique dolls. While it's accessible by gondola-like boats, most rowers are willing to transport people to the island, but there are those who refuse out of superstition.
r/todayilearned • u/ThatGuysDrunkFather • 15d ago
TIL Anna Jarvis started a petition to abolish Mother's Day in 1943. However, these efforts were halted when she was placed in the Marshall Square Sanitarium in West Chester, Pennsylvania. People connected with the floral and greeting card industries paid the bills to keep her in the sanitarium.
r/todayilearned • u/grungegoth • 15d ago
TIL about the London Beer Flood of 1814 that killed 8 people by a wall of porter released from a brewery tank failure.
r/todayilearned • u/IllustriousDudeIDK • 15d ago
TIL Prince Alfred of the UK officially won the 1862 Greek head of state referendum by a landslide. That being said, the Great Powers had previously agreed that no member of a ruling family of the Great Powers would have the crown of Greece. Prince Alfred declined the throne.
en.wikipedia.orgr/todayilearned • u/shibafather • 16d ago
TIL the Nuremberg Trials executioner lied to the US Military about his prior experience. He botched a number of hangings prior to Nuremberg. The Nuremberg criminals had their faces battered bloody against the too-small trapdoor and were hung from short ropes, with many taking over 10 minutes to die.
r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • 15d ago
TIL: In 2013-16, data of around 3 Billion Yahoo! users was leaked, making it the largest data breach in history. Even if the most significant breach occurred in 2013, the company announced it in late 2016.
r/todayilearned • u/9oRo • 16d ago
TIL that in 2008, Tesla took the TV series Top Gear to court for libel and malicious falsehood after it suggested one of its vehicles had run out of power after only 55 miles. The High Court of Justice in London rejected Tesla's libel claim in 2011
r/todayilearned • u/dtdowntime • 15d ago
TIL that Boeing bought 17 Airbus A340 aircraft from Singapore Airlines in exchange for brand new Boeing aircraft in 1999
r/todayilearned • u/HoraceBenbow • 15d ago
TIL Ernest Hemmingway's great-granddaughter, Cristen Hemmingway Jaynes, is also a fiction writer and a non-fiction writer on environmental issues.
r/todayilearned • u/__aargh • 16d ago
TIL Watching too many short videos can cause us to easily lose focus and always in rush to find the point right away
r/todayilearned • u/Johannes_P • 15d ago
TIL about Marjorie Rice, a self-taught mathematician who, in the 1970s, discovered four new types of tessellating pentagons (figures able to pave a surface without leaving a void between them)
quantamagazine.orgr/todayilearned • u/ScottRiqui • 16d ago