Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/kinggoosey on 2024-12-22 01:57:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WouldbeWanderer on 2024-12-22 01:27:55+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Biofouling, the accumulation of organisms (such as barnacles) where they are not wanted (such as on ship hulls) that causes degradation to the primary purpose of the item. Biofouling can require up to 40% more fuel to compensate for increased drag and reduced speeds.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Hike_it_Out52 on 2024-12-22 00:34:31+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Robert Carter III who in 1791 through 1803 set about freeing all 400-500 of his slaves. He then hired them back as workers and then educated them. His family, neighbors and government did everything to stop him including trying to tar and feather him and drove him from his home.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Plus-Staff on 2024-12-21 23:00:31+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ralphbernardo on 2024-12-21 22:28:32+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that elephants exhibit remarkable altruism. In India, an elephant refused a trainer's instruction to lower a log into a hole when it noticed a sleeping dog inside. Elephants have been observed helping injured elephants, rescuing other animals, and even assisting humans in distress.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/OhMFGoose on 2024-12-21 22:19:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/malamindulo on 2024-12-21 21:28:33+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about "Grandpa Indian" (Vovô Índio), a Brazilian character created in the 1930s with the intention of providing a "patriotic" alternative to Santa Claus in Christmastide imagery. Promoted by the far-right Integralist movement, the attempt was widely mocked, and few trace of the character remain.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/xtreme_lol on 2024-12-21 21:23:29+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1994, an American man named Chris Clark made an accidental yet life-changing investment: he bought the domain name pizza.com for just $20. Over a decade later, this small decision would make him a millionaire.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NoWafer5247 on 2024-12-21 20:49:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/gluuey on 2024-12-21 17:19:49+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WouldbeWanderer on 2024-12-21 18:03:33+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 1977, musician Jimmy Buffett was driving to Key West on the Seven Mile Bridge when the bridge got stuck in the open position causing a 3-hour delay to fix it. To kill time, he wrote the song "Margaritaville" while sitting on the hood of his car.

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

Original Title: TIL Francis Ford, the brother of movie director John Ford, was notable for appearing as Abraham Lincoln nine times in film over just four years from 1912 to 1915. Six of those appearances were in 1913 alone.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Jacknerik on 2024-12-21 18:04:19+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1982, an artist and her assistants grew, cared for, and harvested an entire wheatfield in the middle of New York City on top of the landfill created by the construction of The World Trade Center, a piece of land worth 4.5 billion dollars at the time.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ObjectiveAd6551 on 2024-12-21 17:42:32+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Adolf Hitler had filthy table manners, ate junk food, and frequently passed gas, according to 1945 documents. He gorged on sweets like cake, ate “mechanically,” chewed his nails, and ran his fingers through his hair while eating. His habits caused digestive issues and frequent flatulence.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ill_Definition8074 on 2024-12-21 17:20:42+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Jacques Hébert's public execution by guillotine in the French Revolution. To amuse the crowd, the executioners rigged the blade to stop inches from Hébert's neck. They did this three times before finally executing him.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/PlayaSlayaX on 2024-12-21 18:24:13+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Nushawn Williams, a New York City man who, despite knowing he was HIV positive, claimed to have had unprotected sex with 200-300 women and spread the virus to at least 16 people. He was sentenced in 1999 to 4–12 years in prison, but has remained in involuntary civil commitment since 2010.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Frequent-Outcome8492 on 2024-12-21 17:49:39+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Football (soccer) team manager Mikel Arteta hired professional pickpockets to steal phones and wallets from his players to teach them the importance of being ready, alert, and prepared at all times.

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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/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/Personal-Listen-4941 on 2024-12-21 14:15:35+00:00.

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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/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/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.