Today I Learned (TIL)

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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/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/Ratich2 on 2024-12-17 22:51:27+00:00.

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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/haddock420 on 2024-12-17 11:32:43+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/ga3far on 2024-12-17 07:57:52+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/dumbfuck on 2024-12-17 13:31:06+00:00.

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

Original Title: TIL UFO sightings date back to ancient Rome: in 218 BCE, during the Punic Wars, ‘phantom ships’ were reportedly seen in the sky near Rome; in 76 BCE, Pliny the Elder recorded a story of a ‘spark’ that fell from the sky, increased in size, and then returned to the heavens

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2024-12-17 11:25:50+00:00.

Original Title: TIL an off-duty nurse saved a boy's life by giving him CPR when his heart stopped after he was hit in the chest with a baseball bat during a Little League game. Seven years later that same boy saved the nurse's life by giving her the Heimlich maneuver after she started choking in a restaurant.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ObjectiveAd6551 on 2024-12-17 21:28:20+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the phrase “growing the beard” describes when a show improves in quality. It comes from Star Trek: The Next Generation, where Season 2’s stronger storytelling coincided with Riker growing a beard, a look Gene Roddenberry approved and fans embraced as a sign the series had matured.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/johncoktosin on 2024-12-18 18:48:58+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in addition to the Medal of Honor that Audie Murphy was awarded for his conduct in combat on January 26, 1945, he received 2 Bronze Stars, 2 Silver Stars, and a Distinguished Service Cross for five other heroic acts while in combat dating back to March 1944.

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

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TimelyConcern on 2024-12-18 18:15:37+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the music for the Christmas carol "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" was taken from a cantata that was originally written by Felix Mendelssohn to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Gutenberg's printing press