Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/LookAtThatBacon on 2025-07-06 14:20:05+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Windows Task Manager was originally an external side project developed at home by Microsoft developer David Plummer. He donated the project to Microsoft to be used as part of the main product build of Windows in 1995.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Aiseadai on 2025-07-06 14:13:18+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-07-06 13:06:18+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in August 2007, 17-year-old George Hotz became the first person to remove the SIM lock on an iPhone. He then proceeded to trade the second (8GB) iPhone that he unlocked to Terry Daidone, the founder of CertiCell, for a Nissan 350Z and three more 8GB iPhones.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/almondjoybestcndybar on 2025-07-06 13:15:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ghtgsite on 2025-07-06 05:05:17+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that during WW2 Chinese Muslim Imam, Hu Songshan required the Chinese flag to be saluted during morning prayer, and wrote a prayer in Arabic and Chinese for the destruction of the Japanese and the support of the Kuomintang Chinese government.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/zrv8psgOS9AiWK6ugbt2 on 2025-07-06 11:06:32+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Rex 84, a scenario and drill developed by the Reagan Administration to detain (in FEMA-run concentration camps) large numbers of United States residents deemed to be "national security threats" under the guise of the president declaring a national emergency.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/comrade_batman on 2025-07-06 11:08:44+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Julian the Apostate (nephew of Constantine the Great) the last non-Christian ruler of the Roman Empire, who rejected Christianity & promoted Neoplatonic Hellenism, believing it necessary to restore ancient Roman values & traditions to save it from dissolution at the expense of Christianity.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Nmeri17 on 2025-07-06 09:24:19+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BadenBaden1981 on 2025-07-06 11:23:01+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Tim22Mt on 2025-07-06 06:33:11+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Gary Webb exposed CIA ties to the crack epidemic in 1996. Though discredited at the time, later reports confirmed parts of his story. He died in 2004 from two gunshot wounds to the head, ruled a suicide but many found it suspicious given his revelations.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MajesticBread9147 on 2025-07-06 09:18:43+00:00.

Original Title: TIL after hearing her employer and lover who admired the Marquis de Sade claim that a woman couldn't write an erotic novel; writer Anne Desclos wrote one that was both massively successful and caused the government to pursue obscenity charges because of the sadomasochistic themes therein.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/polopiko on 2025-07-06 06:44:24+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Göbekli Tepe in Turkey is the oldest known temple complex in the world, built over 11,000 years ago, thousands of years before Stonehenge or the Pyramids, and it was constructed by prehistoric hunter-gatherers before the invention of farming or writing.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/The_Critical_Cynic on 2025-07-06 04:20:46+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Silentó, who's 2015 debut single "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)" peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 when he was 17 years old, was arrested and charged with the murder of his cousin in 2021. He plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter in 2025, and was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/carboncopy95437 on 2025-07-06 03:26:24+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1987, a farmer in Argentina stumbled upon a giant tibia bone sticking out of the ground. It belonged to a massive dinosaur now known as Argentinosaurus, which some scientists consider the largest land animal to ever exist

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Calrimetre on 2025-07-05 23:16:05+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-07-06 00:05:56+00:00.

Original Title: TIL studies have found that Nobel Prize-winning scientists are about 25x more likely to sing, dance or act than the average scientist. They are also 17x more likely to create visual art, 12x more likely to write poetry, and 4x more likely to be a musician.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ToptextBottomtext420 on 2025-07-06 03:31:38+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that old Celtic, English, and Germanic folk would participate in an event called “flyting”: where two people would poetically throw insults and crude humor at each other in a duel of dictionary skill; it was essentially the earliest form of rap battling

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/VanGoghEnjoyer on 2025-07-06 03:19:47+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about a Chinese TV show called “Interviews Before Execution”, which aired from 2006 to 2012, where journalist Ding Yu interviewed convicted murderers just hours before their death sentences, and the program regularly drew up to 40 million viewers in Henan Province

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/PrimaryInjurious on 2025-07-06 02:51:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/haddock420 on 2025-07-05 23:01:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/drunkanddusky on 2025-07-05 22:49:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CapnFancyPants on 2025-07-06 00:46:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WouldbeWanderer on 2025-07-06 00:05:33+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the Oberammergau Passion Play has occurred every 10 years in Bavaria since 1634. The tradition began during an outbreak of bubonic plague, where the villagers vowed to perform the play if God would spare the village from the plague, during which half of the village's residents had died.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-07-06 00:02:44+00:00.

Original Title: TIL at his second exhibition, 7-year-old Kieron Williamson sold out all 16 of his paintings in 14 minutes for a total of £18,200. At a subsequent exhibition in 2010, his paintings sold out in 30 minutes for £150,000. By 2013, at the age of 10, he had earned an estimated £1.5m from his artwork.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/l__o-o__l on 2025-07-05 22:40:05+00:00.