Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/fuckaduckmagoo on 2024-12-12 00:48:04+00:00.

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

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/charliewaffles2412 on 2024-12-11 23:38:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GetYerHandOffMyPen15 on 2024-12-11 23:28:58+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that during James Cook’s first Pacific voyage, the crew brought a Polynesian navigator on board. He produced a chart of 130 islands he knew across a 2,000 mile radius, including 74 of their names and many of their distances, sizes, chiefs, and foods they produced.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyty5869 on 2024-12-11 22:38:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/VanGrants on 2024-12-11 22:50:37+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/itwas20yearsago2day on 2024-12-11 21:51:38+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Paul McCartney’s voice was supposed to appear on Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side Of The Moon” but Roger Waters cut them after he realized McCartney “thought it was necessary to perform” and wasn’t giving him his genuine thoughts.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TrollingForFunsies on 2024-12-11 18:46:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Patriarch99 on 2024-12-11 19:47:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Texas_Rockets on 2024-12-11 19:16:09+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ObjectiveAd6551 on 2024-12-11 18:11:03+00:00.

Original Title: TIL psychiatrists often overlook a patient’s caffeine intake habits during evaluations, despite its overuse being linked to worsening anxiety, disrupting sleep, and mimicking many common symptoms of psychosis.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Kintpuash-of-Kush on 2024-12-11 17:20:13+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of 'rubber soldiers' - Brazilians conscripted by their government during World War II to harvest rubber in the Amazon for the war effort. Approximately 30,000 died from rough conditions and disease - more than the total number of solders Brazil sent to fight overseas during the war.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JackABoioi on 2024-12-11 16:59:08+00:00.

Original Title: TIL - Henry Tandey was the second most highly decorated British private of the First World War and is most commonly remembered as the soldier who allegedly spared Adolf Hitler's life during the first world war.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Naive-Button3320 on 2024-12-11 16:23:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Nomfbes2 on 2024-12-11 16:24:37+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/k12nysysadmin on 2024-12-11 15:09:35+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Normal_Macaron1468 on 2024-12-11 15:04:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/whatsaphoto on 2024-12-11 14:14:59+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Hitler so detested modern art that he ordered Goebbels to open a "degenerate art" gallery of works seized by the SA to show the German people what he was "saving" them from. The concept backfired, and Goebbels had to go to great lengths to discourage the pieces from being admired by guests.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/wmhaynes on 2024-12-11 12:33:09+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Echo__227 on 2024-12-11 07:32:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/RizhiM on 2024-12-11 05:58:49+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the case of Zhao Zuohai, a Chinese man convicted for murder after a dead body was found 18 months after a neighbour he had a fight with disappeared. However, Zhao was released 10 years later after his "victim" reappeared alive

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/nejicanspin on 2024-12-11 04:22:45+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in Icelandic folklore there's a cat called Jólaköttur or Yule Cat. It lurks in the snowy countryside during the Christmas season and eats people who do not receive new clothing before Christmas Eve.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/zahrul3 on 2024-12-11 04:09:32+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that programming used to be considered as menial, unskilled work for underpaid women, and the term "computer" referred to those women who made punch card code to compute long and tedious mathematical calculations (or just did it by hand).

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/PresidentWeevil on 2024-12-11 00:16:06+00:00.

Original Title: TIL there is a belief amongst some Catholics known as 'Benevacantism'; the belief that Pope Benedict XVI's resignation was not valid, meaning that the current Pope Francis has been an 'antipope', or illegitimate pretender to the papacy, this entire time

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ozem_son_of_Jesse on 2024-12-10 23:37:03+00:00.