Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JJKingwolf on 2024-12-21 16:44:16+00:00.

Original Title: TIL That the "Nobu" restaurant chain was founded by actor Robert DeNiro, who spent five years trying to convince world famous chef Nobu Matsuhisa that they should open a restaurant together before Nobu finally agreed.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/altrightobserver on 2024-12-21 16:25:03+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the Nation of Islam, the Muslim sect that Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X followed, teaches that the original humans were Black and spoke Arabic, white people were created by an evil scientist named Yakub, and the founder W. Fard Muhammad will return in a mothership to commit a racial cleansing.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/UndyingCorn on 2024-12-21 13:48:41+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Brian Doyle-Murray was actually born as Brian Murphy, and is the older brother of Bill Murray. He has actually appeared in several films with his brother, including Caddyshack, The Razor's Edge, Scrooged, Ghostbusters II, and Groundhog Day.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2024-12-21 13:50:16+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the brown bear has been recorded to consume the greatest variety of foods of any bear. This is illustrated in the US, as meat made up 51% of the average diet for Yellowstone grizzlies, while it only made up 11% of the diet for grizzlies from Glacier National Park a few hundred miles to the north

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Algernon_Asimov on 2024-12-21 08:33:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Peterjns22 on 2024-12-21 13:20:34+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the Hindsight bias: also known as the knew-it-all-along phenomenon or creeping determinism, is the common tendency for people to perceive past events as having been more predictable than they were.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Cold_Yoghurt5986 on 2024-12-21 12:58:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/appalachian_hatachi on 2024-12-21 11:22:54+00:00.

Original Title: TIL: That due to press interest in getting photos of the Teletubbies actors in costume without their Teletubby heads on; measures were taken to secure their privacy, including blindfolding visitors coming to the set and creating a tent for the actors to change in secret.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/onehitonebase on 2024-12-21 10:57:18+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Gavrilo Princip was 27 days shy of the 20-year age limit stated in the Austro-Hungarian laws for capital punishment. He was sentenced to 20 year in jail. He died later 4 months before the conclusion of WWI.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sanguinusshiboleth on 2024-12-21 09:21:41+00:00.

Original Title: TIL I learned of Saint Hunger, a 9th bishop of Utrecht who got the job because the leading candidate, a man named Craft, didn't want the job because he was so rich and feared that would attract vikings to raid the city.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/javsand120s on 2024-12-21 09:09:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/1000LiveEels on 2024-12-21 07:39:18+00:00.

Original Title: TIL during World War II, Allied prisoners of war in Colditz Castle built a full-size glider plane in the attic. The plan was to cut a hole in the roof from the attic and then fly the plane to safety. It never flew, but it was completed shortly before the POWs were liberated.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BadenBaden1981 on 2024-12-21 07:38:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/altrightobserver on 2024-12-21 06:03:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/altrightobserver on 2024-12-21 05:48:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NapalmBurns on 2024-12-21 02:22:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WouldbeWanderer on 2024-12-21 02:18:42+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1956, IBM released it's first "hard drive" called RAMAC—short for Random Access Method of Accounting And Control—which held less than 5 megabytes of storage and occupied an entire room. RAMAC was leased for $3,200 a month, the equivalent of $28,000 in 2016.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/malektewaus on 2024-12-21 04:29:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GetYerHandOffMyPen15 on 2024-12-21 03:57:09+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Walt Disney referred to the opening day of Disneyland as “Black Sunday.” The temperature was 101 °F (38 °C), people with counterfeit tickets flooded the park, the water fountains didn’t work, women’s shoes sunk into the asphalt, and people hurled their children over crowds to get on rides.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CreeperRussS on 2024-12-21 03:56:03+00:00.

Original Title: TIL That in 1992, a man named William Brennan, a cashier, walked out of the Stardust Casino in Vegas with 500k+ in stolen cash and chips. He and the money were never found, and he was removed from the FBI's Most Wanted list in 2006 when Stardust was closed.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CalypsoTheKitty on 2024-12-21 02:01:10+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Durfsurn on 2024-12-20 22:46:51+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GetYerHandOffMyPen15 on 2024-12-20 22:20:11+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BiggieTwiggy1two3 on 2024-12-20 22:02:33+00:00.

Original Title: TIL on the May 9, 1969, episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Rogers asked Officer Clemmons, a black policeman played by François Clemmons, if he'd like to cool his feet with Rogers in a child's pool. Clemmons accepted after Rogers offered to share his towel too. Most pools were still segregated.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/letseatnudels on 2024-12-20 19:32:40+00:00.