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TIL researchers found that Americans spent nearly 90 minutes less per day, on average, outside of their homes in 2023 than they did in 2003.
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Submitted January 12, 2026 at 02:21PM by tyrion2024
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The Conversation
America is becoming a nation of homebodies
Even after the pandemic lockdowns were lifted, out-of-home activities and travel remained substantially depressed, far below 2019 levels.
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TIL that it's required to speak English to be a commercial airline pilot or air traffic controller...
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Submitted January 12, 2026 at 12:12PM by Illustrious_Bag_7323
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AEROCADET | Articles & Reviews
Why Is English Used as the Standard Language in Aviation?
Want to know why English is the standard language in aviation? Read this blog to learn how it became the global aviation language, by uniting pilots worldwide.
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TIL Ernest Hemingway survived 2 unrelated plane crashes within a 2 day period. The 2nd crash burnt parts of his right arm to the bone, and also parts of his left fingers to the bone.
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Submitted January 12, 2026 at 02:58PM by Destination_Centauri
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Smithsonian Magazine
Ernest Hemingway and His Wife Survived Two Plane Crashes Just One Day Apart
The novelist recounted the harrowing ordeal in a letter, which just sold for $237,055 at auction
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TIL that Gonorrhea, a sexually-transmitted disease (STD), is becoming increasingly resistant to many classes of antibiotics, including the ones that were previously used to treat it
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Submitted January 12, 2026 at 01:01PM by Forsaken-Peak8496
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TIL that Beverly Hills, CA was named after Beverly, Massachusetts, which was named after Beverly, England, which gets its name from Bevreli/Beverlac, meaning beaver-clearing or beaver lake
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Submitted January 12, 2026 at 04:22PM by Spirited-Pause
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TIL that baby carrots (baby cut carrots) are made from misshapen or broken full-sized carrots that are unmarketable, and were first introduced in 1986 as a way o reduce food waste. They're cut into 2-inch sections, shaped, and peeled to give them their appearance
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Submitted January 12, 2026 at 06:35PM by MrMojoFomo
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TIL that lawyer Richard Haynes asked his clients to thank the judge and jury for acquittal. But he ended the practice after one client said “ladies and gentleman, i want to thank each and every one of you. And I promise you that i will never ever do it again”
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Submitted January 12, 2026 at 07:39PM by longhorntrades
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TIL that researchers have quantified how quickly irregular verb forms “regularize”: the half-life of an irregular verb scales as the square root of its usage frequency. For example, the word "dreamt" is slowly being replaced by "dreamed".
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Submitted January 12, 2026 at 06:41PM by ilovemybaldhead
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PubMed Central (PMC)
Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of language
Human language is based on grammatical rules1–4. Cultural evolution allows these rules to change over time5. Rules compete with each other: as new rules rise to prominence, old ones die away. To quantify the dynamics of language evolution, we ...
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TIL Harold Davidson, known as the "Prostitutes' Padre", was defrocked, exhibited himself in a barrel, and ultimately died after being mauled by a toothless lion.
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Submitted January 12, 2026 at 10:39PM by pjwils
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TIL that certain bat species (notably Mexican free-tailed bats, Tadarida brasiliensis) jam each other’s radar whilst hunting by emitting broadband ultrasonic “jamming signals” to interfere with the echolocation calls of nearby bats during prey pursuit.
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Submitted January 12, 2026 at 09:02PM by Robbinit
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Science
Bats jamming bats: Food competition through sonar interference
Mexican free-tailed bats compete with one another for food by sonically interfering with the echolocation of competitors.
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TIL Jamie Siminoff, inventor of Ring, was rejected by the sharks in ABC's Shark Tank. Five years later, he appeared on the show as a guest shark after selling Ring to Amazon for $1.2 billion.
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Submitted January 12, 2026 at 11:48PM by Omer-Ash
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Missouri Partnership
How Ring Founder Jamie Siminoff Fell in Love with Missouri  - Missouri Partnership
"This city is awesome!" Siminoff says, with the same enthusiasm he had when he mounted his first tractor in La Belle. He starts talking about the diversity, the Midwestern values, the Fortune 500 companies that call St. Louis home, and the depth of the local…
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TIL that baby-cut carrots (commonly referred to as baby carrots) are made from misshapen or broken full-sized carrots that are unmarketable, and were first introduced in 1986 as a way o reduce food waste. They're cut into 2-inch sections, shaped, and peeled to give them their appearance
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Submitted January 12, 2026 at 10:37PM by MrMojoFomo
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From the todayilearned community on Reddit: TIL that baby-cut carrots (commonly referred to as baby carrots) are made from misshapen…
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TIL that just months after leaving office, Ulysses S. Grant set off on a world tour that lasted over two and a half years, becoming the first US president to circumnavigate the globe.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 01:56AM by mrkuzan
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TIL that in 2009 a 25-year-old Ukrainian chemistry student died after the chewing gum he’d accidentally coated in explosive powder detonated in his mouth, blowing off his lower jaw and killing him
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 02:37AM by Forsaken-Peak8496
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TIL that medieval pilgrims could deposit funds at London’s Temple Church with the Knights Templar and travel with a written letter of credit, redeemable at other Templar houses on the way to Jerusalem, thus avoiding the dangers of carrying cash and creating an early form of international banking.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 03:15AM by Upstairs_Drive_5602
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BBC News
The warrior monks who invented banking
Why did a 12th Century religious order start offering financial services?
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TIL that the U.S. Navy submarine USS Grayback was sunk during WWII with 80 sailors aboard and remained undiscovered for 75 years because of a single mistranslation in wartime records and was found within days once the error was corrected in 2019.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 04:02AM by SwordfishEither2516
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TIL that during WWII, Britain planned to drop anthrax-laced pellets into the German countryside, where they could spread among cattle, then humans via the food supply. The pellets were manufactured and tested, and the operation fully prepared, but it was abandoned after D-Day.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 03:10AM by xxwarlorddarkdoomxx
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TIL perfidy is a war crime.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 05:41AM by DrumpleCase
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TIL only a single Kmart store currently exists in the continental United States. During its peak in the 1980s, almost 2100 stores were operating in the US and Canada.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 06:07AM by strangelove4564
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TIL of Peter Feldmann, the former mayor of Frankfurt, Germany, who left office after a successful recall election against him. 95% of voters voted to recall him.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 07:27AM by ThreadbareAdjustment
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TIL that in 2017, a Chinese woman received a refund for her new iPhone X after it was discovered that her coworker was consistently able to unlock her phone using the Facial Recognition feature. A replacement iPhone X proved to have the same issue.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 09:29AM by eStuffeBay
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Mothership
Chinese woman discovers that her iPhone X can be unlocked by her friend's face
Apple says the chances of an imposter being able to trick the system are one in a million.
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