Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CommentFamous503 on 2024-12-17 13:29:46+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Romans organized many expeditions in subsaharan Africa, western expeditions, which crossed the Sahara desert, reached as far south as modern Nigeria while eastern expeditions, which followed the Nile upstream in search of its source, went as far south as Uganda and likely reached Lake Victoria

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/round-disk on 2024-12-17 13:06:21+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that voice actor and musician Chris Phillips co-wrote, performed on, and received a platinum award for the Denis Leary song "Asshole" (1993) shortly becoming the voice of "Face" on Nick Jr. (1994-2003)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Flubadubadubadub on 2024-12-16 11:19:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BadenBaden1981 on 2024-12-16 10:01:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/peterezgo on 2024-12-17 02:04:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BiggieTwiggy1two3 on 2024-12-17 00:46:07+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1789, during an attempted execution by breaking wheel in Versailles, a sympathetic crowd stormed the scaffold, rescued the condemned man, and burned the wheel—effectively halting the execution.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Tech-no on 2024-12-16 23:49:45+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Double-decker_trams on 2024-12-16 23:12:31+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TheRedOwl17 on 2024-12-16 21:28:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/arcedup on 2024-12-16 19:35:26+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the Puritans banned the celebration of Christmas, believing it to be 'popery'. In England, the ban was from 1647 to 1660 and pro-Christmas rioting occurred. In Boston, the ban was from 1659 to 1681 but it was unfashionable to celebrate Christmas there until the 19th century.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SchuleinZoeZS905 on 2024-12-16 16:26:28+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Pathetic_lriG43 on 2024-12-16 18:59:40+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Alberta King, the mother of Martin Luther King Jr., was murdered six years after his assassination (1974). She was shot and killed while playing the organ in Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her husband and son both preached.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/dbxp on 2024-12-16 17:29:03+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ObjectiveAd6551 on 2024-12-16 16:26:14+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the original Holes screenplay by Donnie Darko writer Richard Kelly was a dystopian, R-rated thriller set in a post-nuclear world. It had no Kissin’ Kate or yellow-spotted lizards, and The Warden was a male totalitarian figure. Disney rejected it for being too dark and political.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SpecialistCookie on 2024-12-16 09:04:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/RayInRed on 2024-12-16 08:57:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/stumpyturk on 2024-12-16 06:26:53+00:00.

Original Title: TIL The Jane's Addiction song "Jane Says", about Jane who had a heroin addiction and hoped to move to Spain after kicking her habit: Jane actually did exist, she did kick her habit, and she did move to Spain. However, she was not a sex worker as the song intimated.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ModenaR on 2024-12-16 06:11:57+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that, during the 1994 World Cup, the BBC issued a public apology after its pundit said during the match between Romania and Argentina that "The Argentine defender warrants shooting for a mistake like that", a day after Colombian defender Andres Escobar was shot and killed

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/magicmushrooms_pune on 2024-12-16 05:53:54+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/boobs-4-lunch on 2024-12-16 05:04:03+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GetYerHandOffMyPen15 on 2024-12-16 04:05:08+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the majority of psychological research has been found to have a “WEIRD bias,” meaning that test subjects were from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies. As much as 96% of data comes from countries with only 12% of the world's population.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/No_Educator9313 on 2024-12-16 03:31:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/HallowedAndHarrowed on 2024-12-16 02:56:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Olshansk on 2024-12-16 01:31:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/gogoluke on 2024-12-16 01:36:48+00:00.

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