Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Far-Post-4816 on 2025-04-03 21:21:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/LeGoatMaster on 2025-04-03 21:18:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Obversa on 2025-04-03 20:56:26+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that David Koresh of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas got the idea for his name from one of his lovers, Lois Roden. She checked out a book from the Waco McLennan County Public Library in the 1980s on Cyrus Teed, an early 1900s cult leader from Southwest Florida who went by the name "Koresh".

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Godfrey174 on 2025-04-03 20:48:31+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Floyd Collins, a cave explorer in 1925 who got trapped. During rescue attempts hundreds of cave explorers and tourists stood outside the cave. The cool air caused them to light campfires that disrupted the ice within the cave. Directly causing the cave passage to collapse leading to his death

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/delish on 2025-04-03 19:40:08+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the Americano cocktail was made in Milan at Caffe Campari, the birthplace of Campari in the 1860s. An American man ordered a Campari and soda and he claimed it was too bitter. Several attempts later, he and the bartender toasted their triumph: an addition of vermouth to create the Americano

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ipresnel on 2025-04-03 18:57:33+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1989 Val Kilmer punched and threw actress Caitlin O’Heaney to the floor during an audition for the lead female role of The Doors. There was not any punching in the scene Oliver Stone laughed about it and the company wrote her a check for $24,500 to not discuss the allegations publicly.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TriviaDuchess on 2025-04-03 18:55:28+00:00.

Original Title: TIL The 2001 film The Cat’s Meow, starring Kirsten Dunst, dramatizes the scandalous 1924 death of film mogul Thomas Ince on William Randolph Hearst’s yacht. With Charlie Chaplin allegedly flirting with Hearst’s mistress Marion Davies, many believe Hearst meant to shoot Chaplin—but hit Ince instead.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Same_Huckleberry_122 on 2025-04-03 15:33:24+00:00.

Original Title: TIL on the morning of February 10, 1970, a powder snow avalanche travelling at 120 mph crashed into Val d'Isère, an Alpine ski resort. This French resort was run by a non-profit youth organisation and mostly drew younger skiers. 39 adolescent skiers and three trail personnel were killed that day.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/jimi15 on 2025-04-03 13:28:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Hoops867 on 2025-04-03 14:40:01+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TheQuarantinian on 2025-04-03 14:16:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/blankblank on 2025-04-03 13:52:54+00:00.

Original Title: TIL a New Haven colonist was accused of bestiality in 1647 when a neighborhood sow gave birth to piglets that allegedly resembled him. Called "the most interesting buggery case" ever, it left an enduring mark in the history of capital punishment.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TriviaDuchess on 2025-04-03 13:38:46+00:00.

Original Title: TIL During courtship, the male Pigeon Mountain Salamander circles the female and bites her repeatedly to break the skin on her head. He then rubs a chin gland over the wounds, injecting pheromones directly into her bloodstream to subdue her enough for mating.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Not_so_ghetto on 2025-04-03 13:01:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ex-expatriate on 2025-04-03 12:25:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TriviaDuchess on 2025-04-03 11:30:57+00:00.

Original Title: TIL: Some armadillos, like the nine-banded kind, mate in summer, but the egg delays implanting in the uterus. This pause—called embryonic diapause—lets development resume months later so babies are born in spring when survival odds are better.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DiceMan135 on 2025-04-03 10:48:13+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Winston Churchill, an American writer who was massively popular in the 1900s. He was actually more well known than the British Churchill during that time, and they arranged to meet and agreed that the British Churchill would go by Winston Spencer-Churchill in his own writings.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/yooolka on 2025-04-03 08:05:01+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the iconic birdlike mask of plague doctors in the 17th century was designed to hold herbs and perfumes, which kept away bad smells, such as the smell of decaying bodies. Doctors believed the herbs would counter the "evil" smells of the plague and prevent them from becoming infected.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DarkSideInRainbows on 2025-04-03 08:05:43+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in March 2000, Conan O'Brien did a remote on his Late Night show exploring an advertising firm. While taping it, he met and fell in love with Liza Powel, an employee at the firm. They have been married since 2002 and have two children.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/toshocorp on 2025-04-03 08:02:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ModenaR on 2025-04-03 07:46:44+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JEBV on 2025-04-03 07:14:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/FaultElectrical4075 on 2025-04-03 05:29:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SteO153 on 2025-04-03 05:52:55+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Heard Island and McDonald Islands, an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of mostly barren Antarctic islands. The islands, which are uninhabited, are among the most remote places on Earth, they can be reached only by sea, which from Australia takes two weeks

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/highaskite25 on 2025-03-15 14:59:58+00:00.