Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/bendubberley_ on 2025-05-07 05:42:18+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 2017 an 8 year old boy drove himself and his 4 year old sister to a McDonald's drive thru while following all traffic laws. He did this after learning how to drive on YouTube. No charges were ever filed by authorities and the two kids happily enjoyed their McDonald's

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ICanStopTheRain on 2025-05-07 03:51:37+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1975, after Gillette introduced a two-blade cartridge razor, Saturday Night Live aired a fake commercial for a three-blade razor. Gillette introduced one in 1998. In 2004, a satirical article in The Onion introduced a fictional five-blade razor. A real five-blade razor came out in 2006.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/pengweather on 2025-05-07 03:27:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/analoggi_d0ggi on 2025-05-07 03:07:36+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Xingtian, the God of Not Giving up. In Ancient Chinese Myth he fought vs. Huangdi for the title of Supreme God, lost, and got beheaded. However he turned his nipples & navel into eyes & a mouth and resumed battling for the top spot again

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ill_Definition8074 on 2025-05-07 03:07:22+00:00.

Original Title: TIL During a 2017 basketball game in Auckland, NZ, player Akil Mitchell's left eyeball popped out of its socket after an accidental collision with an opposing player. Mitchell could feel the eye on the side of his face and could still see out of it. Mitchell managed to make a full recovery.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MysteryBagIdeals on 2025-05-07 02:06:09+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Portugal fought a 13-year Colonial War to keep its African colonies long after the rest of Europe had given up theirs. Eventually the military got sick of dying in a pointless war, overthrew the dictatorship and installed a democracy

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Greene_Mr on 2025-05-07 00:52:01+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DangerNoodle1993 on 2025-05-06 23:21:16+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/mikechi2501 on 2025-05-06 21:54:57+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 1970, actress Patty Duke was sleeping with 3 men prior to the birth of her son. Desi Arnaz Jr, actor John Astin and promoter Michael Tell. She married Tell, told her son Arnaz Jr was the father and John Astin ended up adopting the child, who would go on to become actor Sean Astin.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 on 2025-05-06 21:45:56+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Norway’s stave churches, like the 12th-century one in Borgund, were built using cured pinewood, wooden pegs, and interlocking post-and-beam joinery - without nails - and resting on stone foundations to prevent rot.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/sniper91 on 2025-05-06 20:33:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/bnrshrnkr on 2025-05-06 19:18:35+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Flubadubadubadub on 2025-05-06 19:13:14+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ConcentrateOptimal18 on 2025-05-06 18:59:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Torley_ on 2025-05-06 18:38:16+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Underworld's "Born Slippy .NUXX" from the Trainspotting soundtrack had vocals recorded in one take after a night of drinking: Karl Hyde meant it as a "cry for help" from alcoholism, and repeated lines when he lost his place, resulting in the iconic "lager, lager, lager, lager".

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Super_Goomba64 on 2025-05-06 17:54:04+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that While filming his scenes, Anakin's actor would sometimes make lightsaber noises from his mouth, which caused Lucas to stop filming and tell him "Hayden, that looks really great, but I can see your mouth moving. You don't have to do that, we add the sound effects in afterward"

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/notprocrastinatingok on 2025-05-06 17:01:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Montag_Reader on 2025-05-06 16:42:25+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Sarah Wells, a black Wisconsin woman who earned her High School Diploma at 92 years old. "I want to take a course in Botany... I do not know where else I can go, but I am sure there is something else I can do."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/jc201946 on 2025-05-06 16:12:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/HYPERHERPADERP_ on 2025-05-06 16:08:15+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in February 2025 a group of 8 beavers constructed a dam in the exact location that the Czech government had planned to build one. The initial project had been in the planning stage since 2018 and would have cost over $1.2 million.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/No_Material3111 on 2025-05-06 15:07:05+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that when an Italian film called “The Miracle” was released in the U.S in Dec. 1950 that it led to so much religious controversy that the issue went directly to a 1951 Supreme Court Case ruling that finally declared the legal precedent of 1st and 14th Amendments protection for film.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/VegemiteSucks on 2025-05-06 13:57:19+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Nobel Prize-winning novelist Camilo José Cela was infamous for his scandalous remarks. He once claimed he could absorb liters of water via his anus and offered to demonstrate. He also called the Cervantes Prize, Spain's top literary award, "covered with shit," despite accepting it in 1995.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/innergamedude on 2025-05-06 13:34:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Guilty_Writer3165 on 2025-05-06 13:00:10+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Udzu on 2025-05-06 12:39:17+00:00.