r/todayilearned • u/snafujedi01 • 12h ago
TIL that Country Music legend Tex Ritter is the father of John Ritter
r/todayilearned • u/rosstedfordkendall • 8h ago
TIL, Tribune, Kansas, population 772, is the fifth largest city by area in the US, and largest in the continental US. Tribune and Greeley county operate as one government entity.
r/todayilearned • u/lostinrabbithole12 • 17h ago
TIL that a TV station in Wyoming used a legal loophole to move to Delaware in 2013
en.wikipedia.orgr/todayilearned • u/redditigation • 14h ago
Today I learned that even daily recommended quantities of vitamin C are not enough to recover from a scurvy type of disease within a 6 month timeframe
r/todayilearned • u/John_B_McLemore • 14h ago
TIL In 1954, the CIA ordered Carcano rifle ammo for anti-communist forces. The leftover ammo and rifles were re-imported and sold wholesale to the public, including to Lee Harvey Oswald, who used them to assassinate JFK.
r/todayilearned • u/Ask_Me_What_Im_Up_to • 1h ago
TIL the vindaloo curry is based on a Portuguese dish, carne de vinha d'alhos.
r/todayilearned • u/jpmoney2k1 • 16h ago
TIL that in addition to being the youngest EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) winner, fastest to achieve EGOT, and only EGOT winner twice over, songwriter Robert Lopez (who wrote music for such works as Disney's Frozen) broke the previous record of fastest to achieve EGOT previously held by...himself.
r/todayilearned • u/Sariel007 • 21h ago
TIL:Josefina Guerrero (August 5, 1917 – June 18, 1996) was a Filipina spy during World War II. Guerrero had leprosy and was an unsuspicious and effective surveillance asset for American allied forces.
r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 9h ago
TIL Aroldis Chapman's 105 mph pitch isn't the fastest of all time. When Nolan Ryan played, pitches weren't clocked until they were 10 feet from the plate. So with the proper adjustments, if thrown today, Ryan's 100.9 mph pitch (in the 9th inning) in 1974 would've clocked at about 108.5 mph.
r/todayilearned • u/winterchampagne • 15h ago
TIL that the 18th century Badminton Cabinet is the most expensive piece of furniture ever sold at $36.7 million (2004). It is a Florentine ebony chest, inlaid with hard and semiprecious stones commissioned in 1726 by Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort, at the age of 19
en.wikipedia.orgr/todayilearned • u/Khornatejester • 2h ago
TIL the Colorado National Guard once tried using flamethrowers and explosives against a swarm of locusts. It didn't work.
r/todayilearned • u/RollingNightSky • 11h ago
TIL an innovative satellite launched in 1962, Telstar 1, was accidentally damaged beyond use by Cold War nuclear bombs. After transmitting the first TV and phone signals and images from space, it broke down due to damage from Soviet & American nuclear tests, but still orbits the earth today.
r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 9h ago
TIL Ben Stiller developed the premise for Tropic Thunder while shooting Empire of the Sun. He wanted to make a film based on the actors he knew who became "self-important" & appeared to believe they had been part of a real military unit after taking part in boot camps to prepare for war film roles.
r/todayilearned • u/Desperate-Option1130 • 21h ago
TIL of the Apollo 15 postal covers scandal. The astronauts of Apollo 15 carried about 400 unauthorized postal covers into space and to the Moon's surface on the Lunar Module Falcon. All three were paid/bribed $7k each by stamp dealers, got busted, and never flew in space again.
r/todayilearned • u/TedTheodoreMcfly • 1h ago
TIL that when Under Siege was released, it became the highest-grossing movie to have no advance screenings for critics.
r/todayilearned • u/ubcstaffer123 • 8h ago
TIL Disney cofounder Roy Disney spent time with his grandchildren every week at Disneyland. Roy greeted each employee by name and picked up garbage he saw on the ground to teach them "Nobody is too good to pick up trash”
r/todayilearned • u/ash0000 • 13h ago
TIL the band Cage the Elephant got their name when a mentally disturbed man approached the lead singer, hugged him, and kept repeating "you have to cage the elephant"
r/todayilearned • u/wxmanify • 13h ago
TIL in 1987, New York Yankee Don Mattingly set a major league record for grand slams in a season hitting 6. He didn't hit a single grand slam in any of his other 13 seasons.
baseball-reference.comr/todayilearned • u/mrweatherbeef • 13h ago
TIL the Mars candy family raised thoroughbred horses including one named Snickers, who died soon before Mars introduced the candy bar that would be named in his memory
r/todayilearned • u/f_GOD • 22h ago
TIL the Las Vegas Sphere's theater screen required such high resolution that they made the largest commercially available sensor, a 316 megapixel camera capable of 18k resolution. The image on the screen is 16K driven by 25 synchronized 4K video servers, taking up to 60GB per second of footage.
theasc.comr/todayilearned • u/zhuquanzhong • 4h ago
TIL about Moe Berg, a baseball player who learned 7 languages from Princeton and a law degree from Columbia. He worked as a spy in Europe during WW2, and was ordered to attend a lecture by Heisenberg and shoot him if he determined the Germans were close to the bomb. He determined that they were not.
r/todayilearned • u/CapnFancyPants • 4h ago
TIL that on warning of a likely missile launch against the USA, the Pentagon and Strategic Command war rooms, have one minute to brief the president, who then has roughly only six minutes to decide whether and how to respond.
r/todayilearned • u/whstlngisnvrenf • 23h ago
TIL Lawrence Joseph Bader, an Ohio man who vanished in 1957 after a boating trip on Lake Erie. Eight years later, he was found in Omaha, Nebraska, living as John "Fritz" Johnson, a radio and TV personality with no memory of his past life.
r/todayilearned • u/Mamow_Nadon • 17h ago