Today I Learned - Ad Free – Telegram
Today I Learned - Ad Free
1.22K subscribers
3 photos
58.8K links
The 'Today I Learned' or TIL channel, forwards hot posts from /r/todayIlearned. This channel doesn't add advertisements to the source url.
Learn more, without ads.

Now open to invites and shareable with link:
t.me/TodayILearnedAF

Admin: @ZeroByMiesOne
Download Telegram
TIL the term "Ass Clown" is credited to be from the movie "Office Space."
https://ift.tt/ZY7wVoe

Submitted April 02, 2024 at 06:38AM by SuperMcG
via reddit https://ift.tt/pr8owUb
😁2
TIL Club Penguin was sold to Disney for $350 million
https://ift.tt/KmUc9Z5

Submitted April 02, 2024 at 08:10AM by mankls3
via reddit https://ift.tt/mr6gf8B
TIL Andres Serrano once faced extreme controversy for his work, "Immersion (Piss Christ)" (1987), which shows a crucifix of Jesus dunked in urine. In 2023, Pope Francis blessed Serrano and gave him a thumbs up gesture of approval.
https://ift.tt/eoGfXZn

Submitted April 02, 2024 at 08:04AM by Torley_
via reddit https://ift.tt/6T9UdZM
👎4🔥4😁1🤨1
TIL - Red Cell was formed in 1984 by the creator of Seal Team 6 to demonstrate the vulnerabilities of military installations. In 1986 they kidnapped and tortured a man for 30 hours as part of an operation.
https://ift.tt/9etbw48

Submitted April 02, 2024 at 03:43PM by ThePainCrafter
via reddit https://ift.tt/Bkn1oEL
TIL, five parrots at a wildlife park have been removed from public display after they started swearing at visitors.
https://ift.tt/LbicSyO

Submitted April 02, 2024 at 02:58PM by Lvexr
via reddit https://ift.tt/xbvtpuC
8😁2
TIL that King Ranch, the largest ranch in the U.S., is larger than both Rhode Island and Luxembourg
https://ift.tt/SqIzCge

Submitted April 02, 2024 at 08:47AM by horsepoop1123
via reddit https://ift.tt/M8flCjQ
TIL a skydiver had a seizure while 9,000 feet in the air and was saved by his instructor pulling his ripcord
https://ift.tt/UqZsKYX

Submitted April 02, 2024 at 04:12PM by Blood_Incantation
via reddit https://ift.tt/xwQc0Kv
😱3
TIL, children born in the early to mid-1980s are called "The DuckTales Generation" in Hungary, because their first encounter with politics happened in 1993, when a DuckTales episode they've been waiting for all week was cut short to announce the death of Prime Minister József Antall.
https://ift.tt/dMthzOI

Submitted April 02, 2024 at 05:48PM by Pe45nira3
via reddit https://ift.tt/e5B6DRh
😁5
TIL that the little hook at the end of a tape measure is kept intentionally loose!!
https://ift.tt/CIcJKqd

Submitted April 02, 2024 at 04:32PM by VastCoconut2609
via reddit https://ift.tt/2GtraoF
TIL Larry Bird Once Played A Game Mostly With His Left Hand Because He Wanted to Save His Right for the Next Game Against the Lakers.
https://ift.tt/rxESuVT

Submitted April 02, 2024 at 06:56PM by CheesyOverEasy
via reddit https://ift.tt/rVpaNlg
TIL Active Listening is listening with the intent to understand the other person fully rather than listening to respond. However, it was criticized by John Gottman's "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work" as being of limited usefulness.
https://w.wiki/9Vg4

Submitted April 02, 2024 at 05:37PM by BobbeeZee
via reddit https://ift.tt/kZ0LJIg
🤡1
TIL Winston Churchill would attend Shakespeare plays and recite the lines along with the actors from the front row. Richard Burton, playing Hamlet at the Old Vic theatre, tried to shake Churchill by changing the speed of his delivery, but Churchill stayed with him the whole way.
https://ift.tt/1w6mplz

Submitted April 02, 2024 at 08:28PM by abraca-debra
via reddit https://ift.tt/wJUsBYg
TIL Bill Nye quit his job at Boeing to be a stand up comic after winning a Steve Martin look alike contest in 1978.
https://ift.tt/i4SaNgH

Submitted April 02, 2024 at 09:28PM by maybebatshit
via reddit https://ift.tt/fR6YJIV
TIL Women are faster than men in 'ultra' long distance races of over 195 miles
https://ift.tt/72roMDs

Submitted April 02, 2024 at 10:29PM by Odd-Web-2418
via reddit https://ift.tt/pvkOaFX
🤷1
TIL the brand name Rolex doesn't mean anything, but rather is a completely made-up word that the founder thought is easily pronounced in any language.
https://ift.tt/rRCShld

Submitted April 03, 2024 at 12:01AM by ladyermine
via reddit https://ift.tt/PEX9pxI
TIL, in 2000, the April issue of the Romanian edition of Playboy magazine published an article noscriptd 'How to Beat Your Wife Without Leaving Marks on Her Body' as an April Fool's joke. It backfired, and women's organizations in Romania spoke up in protest.
https://ift.tt/j2nDO7d

Submitted April 03, 2024 at 01:23AM by Lvexr
via reddit https://ift.tt/FeQW3Bq
🔥1
TIL for 2 years the US had a 100 year old man as president of the senate; being 3rd in line for the presidency
https://ift.tt/Bm82gx3

Submitted April 03, 2024 at 03:11AM by zTRU5T
via reddit https://ift.tt/7lfx0HZ
🤡2
TIL While MTV has filmed over 101 Unplugged performances, fewer than 30 of them have been released as albums.
https://ift.tt/JFD6eVW

Submitted April 03, 2024 at 03:48AM by drainodan55
via reddit https://ift.tt/t5X4OlY
TIL that Radithor was a "medicine" sold in the 1920s that consisted of water with a bit of dissolved radium. One user, Eben Byers, drank so much of it that most of his jaw literally fell off.
https://ift.tt/3Qf5mBC

Submitted April 03, 2024 at 03:20AM by mucubed
via reddit https://ift.tt/w6cFj1s
😱2