Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BiggieTwiggy1two3 on 2024-12-18 01:10:14+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1770, 14-year-old Mozart attended a Vatican performance of Allegri's Miserere, a choral piece so sacred its sheet music was kept secret under penalty of excommunication. He memorized it in one hearing, transcribed it, and helped bring it to the public.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Rusty-Shackleford on 2024-12-18 04:54:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/nickelundertone on 2024-12-18 03:41:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Idiedin2005 on 2024-12-18 03:37:51+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Kwpthrowaway2 on 2024-12-17 22:30:53+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GoinThruTheBigD on 2024-12-17 14:32:44+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Jason Brown quit the NFL to become a farmer that feeds the hungry. This past year the Browns celebrated their most significant milestone yet: donating over 1 million pounds of harvested food to fight food insecurity across North Carolina.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GetYerHandOffMyPen15 on 2024-12-18 03:09:44+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Los del Rio, the duo responsible for the worldwide 1995 hit “Macarena,” was formed in 1962. The band had released 18 albums prior to their hit single, and the members were in their mid 50s when it came out.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BiggieTwiggy1two3 on 2024-12-18 23:58:13+00:00.

Original Title: TIL during WWI, Allied soldiers used glowworms as trench lamps, storing the bioluminescent insects in bottles for light. Their service was so helpful, they were honored in 2004 when Princess Anne unveiled a London memorial for animals and insects that aided the war effort.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TAparentadvice on 2024-12-19 02:10:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Kthulu71 on 2024-12-18 22:52:46+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the oddly-named "Doomsday Rule" which can (with practice) be used to calculate the weekday of a target date based on the fact that certain days (4/4, 5/9, 6/6...) in any given year all fall on the same day of the week.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/APurpleTRex on 2024-12-18 14:21:31+00:00.

Original Title: TIL After being wounded in WWII, Legendary Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä (The White Death) was thought to be dead and placed on a pile of corpses. A week later he regained consciousness and had to correct the newspaper release about his death.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Greene_Mr on 2024-12-18 13:42:19+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/YesFlyZone420 on 2024-12-18 11:33:52+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MonsieurGriswold on 2024-12-18 10:50:12+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ratich2 on 2024-12-17 22:51:27+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2024-12-18 23:14:05+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Beethoven kept his hearing loss a secret. He once wrote(but never send) a letter to his brother confessing it and explained that people mistakenly thought he was antisocial: he longed for human contact but became a recluse out of shame for his condition and all this made him contemplate suicide

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/apworker37 on 2024-12-18 22:44:52+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MaroonTrucker28 on 2024-12-18 22:30:05+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the first reference to the Grinch was not in How The Grinch Stole Christmas. He first appeared in the book Scrambled Eggs Super (1953). He later appeared in a 1955 poem "The Hoobub And The Grinch", before the famous story of him was published

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/EssexGuyUpNorth on 2024-12-18 20:27:47+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Lord Nelson, one of the most successful naval commanders in British history, suffered from sea sickness throughout his career in the Royal Navy. In a letter, he wrote that "I am ill every time it blows hard and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TheBigGinge on 2024-12-18 18:53:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/XyleneCobalt on 2024-12-18 18:41:28+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of the Acali expedition, a social experiment that aimed to investigate interpersonal relationships in an isolated environment. Nicknamed the "Sex Raft," its participants remained peaceful throughout, even when the researcher tried to incite conflict.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AssumeTheRisk on 2024-12-18 17:01:01+00:00.

Original Title: TIL there is an agency in the Federal Government of the United States called the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. They investigate manufacturing accidents that result in the release of hazardous materials and then make detailed animations about the accidents as learning tools.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/haddock420 on 2024-12-17 11:32:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Blutarg on 2024-12-17 23:33:31+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ga3far on 2024-12-17 07:57:52+00:00.