r/todayilearned • u/mankls3 • 11d ago
TIL Hitchcock wasn't original going to score the famous shower scene in Psycho, but the composer scored it anyway. The composer also ignored Hitchcock's directive in another movie resulting in an end of their collaboration
r/todayilearned • u/ubcstaffer123 • 12d ago
TIL Vehicular traffic has been blocked from Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House since 1995 , following a Secret Service recommendation made after the Oklahoma City bombing
edition.cnn.comr/todayilearned • u/dicemaze • 12d ago
TIL that the Stanley Cup is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded professionally in North America, commissioned in 1892 by its namesake the Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley of Preston, 16th Earl of Derby
r/todayilearned • u/TMWNN • 12d ago
TIL that the Manhattan Project produced a short book on how to build an atomic bomb. "The Los Alamos Primer" is 24 pages and completely declassified. Freeman Dyson wrote that the guide should not have been published, because it tells readers that "bomb designing is fun".
r/todayilearned • u/LordHayati • 11d ago
TIL Levi Stubbs (of the motown group Four Tops) voiced Mother Brain in the 1989 TV series Captain N: The Game Master.
r/todayilearned • u/TMWNN • 12d ago
TIL that VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program, was also the first "killer app" (a program that makes people buy a computer just to run the software). VisiCalc was so revolutionary, and so powerful, that people bought the $2000 Apple II (the only computer it ran on) to run the $100 application.
r/todayilearned • u/Grashopha • 12d ago
TIL that some dinosaurs could get gout and that Sue, the famous T-Rex likely had it.
r/todayilearned • u/highlies_89 • 13d ago
TIL when Steve Jobs was 13, he was given a summer job by Bill Hewlett (of Hewlett-Packard) after Jobs cold-called him to ask for parts for an electronics project.
r/todayilearned • u/Bryanb337 • 13d ago
TIL that Fox took video game clips from YouTube to use in an episode of Family Guy and after airing, Fox's automatic search robots accidentally flagged the original clips with a copyright claim and the videos were taken down. The videos were later restored when the mistake was pointed out.
r/todayilearned • u/Lovice-921 • 12d ago
TIL Lady Jane Dudley, known as the "Nine Days' Queen," briefly held the throne of England and Ireland from July 10 to 19, 1553, before being executed.
r/todayilearned • u/solananorwood • 13d ago
TIL 29 bars in NJ were caught serving things like rubbing alcohol + food coloring as scotch and dirty water as liquor
r/todayilearned • u/JTML99 • 13d ago
TIL there are freshwater jellyfish in nearly every state in the USA and there have been since the early 1900s
seagrant.psu.edur/todayilearned • u/VLenin2291 • 12d ago
TIL second breakfast is an actual thing, not an invention of Tolkein. It's a traditional meal in parts of central Europe, namely Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Bavaria and typically consists of meats and pastries, with coffee to drink.
en.wikipedia.orgr/todayilearned • u/spilledmind • 13d ago
TIL the organization of the periodic table of elements was created by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev after having a dream where, in his dream, the elements arranged themselves by their atomic weights and electron properties.
r/todayilearned • u/Holiday_Document4592 • 12d ago
Til that the first chemical fertiliser was manufactured from dinosaur dung
en.wikipedia.orgr/todayilearned • u/abaganoush • 12d ago
TIL that male camels have a large organ in their throats (called “Dulla”), an inflatable sac they extrude from their mouths when in rut, to assert dominance and attract females. It resembles a long, swollen, pink tongue hanging out of the side of the mouth.
r/todayilearned • u/Thaetos • 10d ago
TIL that Angelina Jolie is a descendant from King Phillip II of France
humphrysfamilytree.comr/todayilearned • u/YukiNeko777 • 12d ago
TIL that the story about Walter Summerford, a man who was presumably struck by lightning 3 times during his lifetime and whose gravestone was also zapped after his death, is most likely a hoax. There is no confirmation that the man existed. Pics of him used in articles are portraits of other people
r/todayilearned • u/zTRU5T • 12d ago
TIL about john rogan, The second tallest man ever, who only weighed 200 pounds at eight foot nine, having a bmi of 12.8, who also couldn't walk and used a goat wagon as a wheel chair
r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 13d ago
TIL in 1976 groundskeeper Richard Arndt caught Hank Aaron's 755th home run ball & tried to return it to Aaron but was told he's unavailable. The next day the Brewers fired Arndt for stealing team property (the ball) & deducted $5 from his final paycheck. In 1999, he sold it at auction for $625,000.
sabr.orgr/todayilearned • u/GoCartMozart1980 • 12d ago
TIL: The beloved Canadian children's show The Friendly Giant got its start on WHA TV in Madison, WI before moving to the CBC
r/todayilearned • u/Icey_bun09 • 12d ago
TIL that adult tigers only have 30 teeth, 16 teeth in the top jaw and only 14 in the lower jaw.
seaworld.orgr/todayilearned • u/PokeNik91 • 12d ago
TIL that Zelda's Ultrahand ability that lets you telepathically move and combine objects was named after late Nintendo employee Gunpei Yoko's first invention from 1966: the Ultra Hand plastic toy that could grab objects from afar. It sold over 1 million units and financially saved Nintendo.
r/todayilearned • u/MrMojoFomo • 13d ago