Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Flares117 on 2024-12-16 01:16:29+00:00.

Original Title: TIL: A scientific study at Cambridge found that sheep were smart enough to recognize human faces from a photo. However, their performance dropped when the picture is tilted. To conduct the study, scientists have them treats to identify photographs. They used photos of Emma Watson.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/LeastPervertedFemboy on 2024-12-16 00:36:30+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ozem_son_of_Jesse on 2024-12-15 23:52:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Intense-flamingo on 2024-12-15 22:53:41+00:00.

Original Title: TIL: Eugene Bullard (1895–1961) was the first Black combat pilot, serving in the French Air Service during WWI. An American expatriate, he later became a jazz musician, boxer, and club owner in Paris after escaping Jim Crowe. He used his status in Parisian high society to spy on the Nazis.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BizarroCullen on 2024-12-15 19:52:21+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash was largely inspired by a song called "Crescent City Blues" by Gordon Jenkins. However, Jenkins never heard of the song it became a smash hit after Cash re-released it 13 years later. Jenkins, afterwards, filed a lawsuit and settled with $75,000.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Fox_a_Fox on 2024-12-15 18:07:34+00:00.

Original Title: TIL: the CIA once got brutally humiliated by the Cuban Government and Fidel Castro when they publicly broadcasted the identity of every single American spy in their territory on every local TV and Newspaper, including recordings of encounters the CIA believed were done in maximum secrecy

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/zahrul3 on 2024-12-15 16:52:40+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the head chef of the Windows on the World restaurant at the North Tower managed to survive the 9/11 attacks because he was having his glasses repaired at the WTC concourse when the first plane hit.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/giuliomagnifico on 2024-12-15 16:32:42+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 18th-century Naples, spaghetti was a popular street food eaten with bare hands, becoming a tourist attraction as visitors were fascinated by the locals' ability to eat it without forks, and spectacles were even organized by tourists to witness these scenes

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GDW312 on 2024-12-15 14:10:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/bigbusta on 2024-12-15 15:52:35+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BrianOBlivion1 on 2024-12-15 15:11:33+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Henry Ford was sued for libel by a Jewish farming co-op after publishing in the Dearborn Independent that the co-op was a front for a Jewish conspiracy to monopolize American agriculture. The libel suit led Ford to issue a retraction and public apology, and the Dearborn Independent folded.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/himmokala on 2024-12-15 13:48:53+00:00.

Original Title: TIL there is a grizzly–polar bear hybrid, often called a grolar bear or a pizzly bear, a rare hybrid between a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) and a polar bear (Ursus maritimus). These hybrids occur when the two species interbreed, typically in regions where their habitats overlap.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NoLastNameForNow on 2024-12-15 13:54:45+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2024-12-15 13:40:23+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Ghyslain Raza (the Star Wars Kid) began getting tutored at home because the school staff asked him not to return the following year after students started to tease or mock him which they saw as bad publicity. Although, he was able to move past it and now has a law degree & is working on his PHD.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/theworkinglad on 2024-12-15 13:31:48+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2024-12-15 12:01:32+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Facing a major banking and public debt crisis in 1340, Florence elected an executive council consisting of a butcher, a used cloth salesman, a dyer, a notary and a member of the Machiavelli family. They saved the state by enacting a radical plan of restructuring and re-funding the public debt

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ModenaR on 2024-12-15 10:02:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/LimpBifkin on 2024-12-15 07:49:11+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Dolly-Cat55 on 2024-12-15 07:45:10+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/griefofwant on 2024-12-15 07:24:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ElliotAlderson2024 on 2024-12-15 07:19:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2024-12-15 06:58:03+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the reason Roy Scheider ad-libbed the line “You’re gonna need a bigger boat” in Jaws was because it had become a catchphrase on set for anytime anything went wrong. It was directed at two "stingy producers" because the support boat that steadied the barge with the filming equipment was too tiny.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2024-12-15 06:33:41+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 1780 James Jackson (well known as a duelist with a fiery temper) killed Georgia governor George Wells in a duel. In 1788, he was elected governor but declined it, citing his inexperience. Instead he served as a congressman & senator before being elected the 23rd governor of Georgia in 1797.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ObjectiveAd6551 on 2024-12-15 02:21:26+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Game of Thrones became the most pirated TV show in history, with the season 7 finale streamed or downloaded over 1 billion times. By season 8, illegal viewership doubled legal numbers with 55M downloads for the premiere. HBO eventually embraced the piracy buzz, calling it a “free-to-play” model.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/HerbziKal on 2024-12-15 01:13:00+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of the most enigmatic structure in cell biology: the Vault. Often missing from science text books due to the mysterious nature of their existence, it has been 40 years since the discovery of these giant, half-empty structures, produced within nearly every cell, of every animals, on the planet.