Today I Learned - Ad Free – Telegram
Today I Learned - Ad Free
1.22K subscribers
3 photos
59K 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 before the breakup, AT&T didn't allow customers to use phones made by other companies, claiming using them would degrade the network.
https://ift.tt/hrub8V4

Submitted September 23, 2024 at 06:48PM by BadenBaden1981
via reddit https://ift.tt/TRQEIUp
🖕2🤬1
TIL that, in a resting state, the brain consumes about 20% of the body's energy. The sight and hearing parts of the brain consume far more energy than parts used for smell and memory. Also, white matter only uses 20-25% of energy as gray matter.
https://ift.tt/Bq5j47T.

Submitted September 23, 2024 at 05:45PM by Voyager_AU
via reddit https://ift.tt/JmScf7w
TIL that The Woman's Building, one of the twelve main buildings built for the Chicago's World Fair in 1893, was planned, designed, and decorated entirely by women. The purpose of the building was to highlight women's achievements and challenge traditional ways of thinking.
https://ift.tt/Ask1ZQI

Submitted September 23, 2024 at 06:52PM by gibsonvanessa79
via reddit https://ift.tt/6wHcIiU
🔥5🤡5👏2
TIL whale oil was used in transmissions until its ban in 1972, when less than 1 million transmissions failed each year; without whale oil, yearly transmission failures became more than 8 million by 1975. This led to thousands of transmission shops opening across the USA in the late 1970s and ’80s
https://ift.tt/fSU8J1i

Submitted September 23, 2024 at 07:39PM by Brutal_Deluxe_
via reddit https://ift.tt/yU7zAFx
1
TIL the town of Honiton, UK has a "Hot Penny Day" a recreation of a 13th century tradition where wealthy people would heat pennies on the stove, throw them into the streets and laugh at the poor people who picked them up.
https://ift.tt/YITQlgd

Submitted September 23, 2024 at 09:18PM by MONDAYCHICKENANDRICE
via reddit https://ift.tt/qZJkKT8
TIL that in Australia, horses were statistically responsible for more deaths (with 74 deaths directly attributable to them) between 2000 and 2013 than stinging insects or snakes. Over this period, no deaths were attributed to spiders.
https://ift.tt/EogXqaW

Submitted September 23, 2024 at 08:08PM by jenesuispashariselon
via reddit https://ift.tt/xA5VvZI
TIL that Blue Raspberry is largely Banana and Pineapple flavors. A bright blue dye was used because because the red food dye of the time had been banned.
https://ift.tt/Kas5qYB

Submitted September 23, 2024 at 09:31PM by IC-4-Lights
via reddit https://ift.tt/G8wnV3q
TIL that Morton, Illinois is known as “Pumpkin Capital of the World” since 85% of percent of the world's canned pumpkin is processed at the Libby’s plant in Morton.
https://ift.tt/rRpYX7Z

Submitted September 23, 2024 at 10:21PM by cuspofgreatness
via reddit https://ift.tt/FOuZDzm
TIL In 1609 the Kingdom Of Spain expelled hundreds of thousands of Moriscos, people of muslim ancestry who had converted to christianity, partialy because of a racial doctrine called "purity of blood". In some regions over 30% of the total population were expelled, devastating the local economy
https://ift.tt/u3LsJDG

Submitted September 23, 2024 at 11:09PM by Ainsley-Sorsby
via reddit https://ift.tt/HpCiaXL
🤡1121
TIL that Pete Absolon, the Rocky Mountain director of NOLS, was on a climb in Wyoming's Wind River Range, and died after being struck in the head by a rock due to other hikers throwing rocks off over a mountain cliff for fun.
https://ift.tt/l7J6W8k

Submitted September 23, 2024 at 11:11PM by Stauce52
via reddit https://ift.tt/pzyd8SP
🤬5
TIL that when Elton John married his wife Renate Blauel in 1984, Rod Stewart sent a wedding telegram that read "You may still be standing but we're all on the f**king floor"
https://ift.tt/9vROWU8

Submitted September 24, 2024 at 12:34AM by EssexGuyUpNorth
via reddit https://ift.tt/ngqTHRK
1
TIL Japanese government once banned imported skis because "The snow is different in Japan"
https://ift.tt/3NYeIJv

Submitted September 24, 2024 at 02:03AM by cutelyaware
via reddit https://ift.tt/Tv28Y6q
🥱2
Today I learned that in 2012, a contest was held online for Taylor Swift to perform a concert at your local school. Online trolls mass voted for Boston's Horace Mann School for the Deaf. Swift declined to go, and instead donated $50,000 to.the school.
https://ift.tt/vp4J2hk

Submitted September 24, 2024 at 04:19AM by Howtobe_normal
via reddit https://ift.tt/lRhP7jb
🤣113
TIL Warwick Davis is younger than Peter Dinklage
https://ift.tt/jP6ChNO

Submitted September 24, 2024 at 04:28AM by iSpccn
via reddit https://ift.tt/Z39Jsyv
TIL that during the peak of their powers about 10% of the entire Japanese population were samurais. Due to their large numbers nearly all Japanese alive today are descended from samurai
https://ift.tt/3cYFB85.

Submitted September 24, 2024 at 02:18AM by TheOSU87
via reddit https://ift.tt/uMcSdQj
👍5🥱1
TIL that during the Cephalonia massacre in WWII, after executing most of the Italian officers that had surrendered to them, the Germans forced 20 Italian sailors to take the bodies out to sea in rafts. They then blew up the rafts with the sailors still on them.
https://ift.tt/uBURaEF

Submitted September 24, 2024 at 04:24AM by MistoftheMorning
via reddit https://ift.tt/d2I8uDK
🤬5
TIL the actress who played Regina George's sister in Mean Girls (the girl who flashes the TV when Amy Poehler's character is introduced) is a physician specializing in otolaryngology—head and neck surgery. She also is a very talented artist who paints realistic pieces.
https://ift.tt/m6VL4EF

Submitted September 24, 2024 at 07:49AM by boobmeyourpms
via reddit https://ift.tt/8QuYNLJ
TIL the lyrics to the song Tutti Frutti, made famous by Little Richard, were originally about anal sex
https://ift.tt/kOpwjQL

Submitted September 24, 2024 at 03:20PM by Butthole_Alamo
via reddit https://ift.tt/5zq2FPk
🍓4🔥1