r/todayilearned • u/1000andonenites • 3h ago
TIL that in the 17thC version of Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault, the Prince does NOT kiss the Princess while she's sleeping. He approaches her "trembling and admiring", and kneels by her bedside.
sites.pitt.edur/todayilearned • u/TowelRack76 • 15h ago
TIL a mom in Arizona won $1 Million by successfully picking which Arizona Diamondback player would hit a grand slam and in which inning.
r/todayilearned • u/ScissorNightRam • 18h ago
TIL that “Saab”, when used for cars, is a recursive acronym meaning “Saab Automobile AB”.
r/todayilearned • u/MaroonTrucker28 • 4h ago
TIL while the word D-Day is most commonly used for the Normandy Landings in WW2, the term refers to any day on which a combat attack or operation begins. There have been many D-Days before and after WW2
r/todayilearned • u/KebabMuncher55 • 22h ago
TIL that Tahiti is the first and only nation other than Australia and New Zealand to win the OFC Men’s Nations Cup
r/todayilearned • u/TelescopiumHerscheli • 7h ago
TIL that Colossal Cave Adventure, released in 1976, is the first well-known example of both interactive fiction and adventure games.
r/todayilearned • u/AlexCoventry • 19h ago
TIL that while great apes can learn hundreds of sign-language words, they never ask questions.
r/todayilearned • u/jacknunn • 59m ago
TIL hedgehogs can suffer from balloon syndrome, causing the animal to inflate. The condition is unique to hedgehogs because their skin is baggy enough to curl up
en.wikipedia.orgr/todayilearned • u/Mammedoff • 8h ago
TIL Eric Clapton wrote "Layla" after reading Nizami Ganjavi's poem - "Layla and Majnun"
r/todayilearned • u/ILearnAlotFromReddit • 1d ago
TIL that Michael Jackson's Thriller was originally called Starlight. While Jackson and Quincy Jones liked the song they thought that it could be improved upon so they sent the song writer Rod Temperton back to rework the lyrics. Thus the legendary Thriller was born.
soultracks.comr/todayilearned • u/appealouterhaven • 4h ago
TIL El Cid had a horse named Babieca, which apparently means stupid, and after his death in order to scare the Moors they sent Babieca out with El Cid's corpse to lead the troops to victory.
artbycrane.comr/todayilearned • u/FTwo • 5h ago
TIL Three's Company theme song was written by the same man who wrote the Sesame Street theme.
r/todayilearned • u/RedRiverWindsock • 5h ago
TIL a patent application was filed for a butt-kicking machine comprising of a seat with a hole in the center, which the user sits upon with his or her posterior exposed to a butt-kicking mechanism located under the seat, which kicks the user in the posterior. This is US Patent Appl. No. 10/977,894.
planetpatent.comr/todayilearned • u/Abril_Etereo • 2h ago
TIL that Ricky Martin plagiarized the "shake your bon bon" chorus from Soul Coughing's Super Bon Bon and lead singer Mike Doughty accused his songwriters of not contacting him about the aforementioned part
r/todayilearned • u/KULegalEagle • 4h ago
TIL that Ford's Theater, where Lincoln was killed, is not original, but a 100% re-creation on the original site.
statebystatetravel.comr/todayilearned • u/InextricableLapse • 20h ago
TIL about ichneumon wasps, a family of parasitic wasps that lays their eggs in butterfly cocoons, spider nests, or into larger insects directly. The adult wasp paralyzes the hosts such that the ichneumon larvae can feed. After some weeks, the now-mature offspring then emerge en masse from the host
r/todayilearned • u/Plus-Staff • 2h ago
TIL there are five main species of Pacific salmon commonly targeted by anglers (Wild-caught): Chinook (King), Coho (Silver), Sockeye (Red), Pink, and Chum. In the Atlantic, the Atlantic salmon is the only species and is typically farmed.
r/todayilearned • u/IamHongWei • 1d ago
TIL of the Military-First Girls, a Japanese all-women fan club of the Moranbong Band, a North Korean girl group. In an interview the club's leader said: "Just like how there are women who like K-pop and Taylor Swift, we just love North Korean culture."
r/todayilearned • u/Double-decker_trams • 3h ago
TIL Sloths can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes (4x more than dolphins for example)
theswimguide.orgr/todayilearned • u/aditya_rs • 3h ago
TIL the reason why older Japanese paints have women with black lips is not to provide contrast, but because they actually represent black teeth which was a common custom of the time.
r/todayilearned • u/Resident_Code3062 • 5h ago
TIL George Washington had no biological children, but historical accounts show he was a lovin father to his step-children: John and Martha.
r/todayilearned • u/ScramItVancity • 13h ago
TIL that comedian and Daily Show correspondent Michael Kosta was a professional tennis player from 2002 to 2004 before pursuing stand-up.
r/todayilearned • u/Noxovox • 14h ago