Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/WF-2 on 2025-03-13 05:54:27.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Some-Scratch-6549 on 2025-03-13 03:54:31.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/mysteryofthefieryeye on 2025-03-13 03:50:02.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TriviaDuchess on 2025-03-13 03:24:40.

Original Title: TIL Connecticut’s 1662 charter from King Charles II gave it land from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Until 1786, it claimed territory between the 41st and 42nd parallels, including parts of what are now Utah, Nevada, and California. It wasn’t until 1800 that it gave up much of what became Ohio.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/kyrie43101748 on 2025-03-13 03:23:52.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/ICanStopTheRain on 2025-03-13 02:17:18.

Original Title: TIL that Galileo’s telescope wasn’t strong enough to tell what Saturn’s rings were, so he thought it was a larger central planet closely flanked by two smaller ones. He described the rings as Saturn’s “ears.”

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Morganbanefort on 2025-03-13 03:49:01.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/slhamlet on 2025-03-13 02:37:01.

Original Title: TIL when Japanese-American Norm Mineta was interned as a child, US authorities confiscated his baseball bat. Later elected to Congress, someone gifted him a $1500 Hank Aaron bat-- which he had to return, since it violated House rules on gifts. Said Mineta: "The damn government's taken my bat again."

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Firesondiego on 2025-03-13 02:02:18.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Ribbitor123 on 2025-03-13 01:23:44.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Super_Goomba64 on 2025-03-13 00:33:05.

Original Title: TIL that the Hindenburg (which was filled with flammable hydrogen gas) had a smoking lounge. The entrance to the lounge was pressurized, and the bartender had to make sure no hydrogen gas leaked, or if someone walked with a lit pipe or lit cigarette

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Razzore on 2025-03-13 00:27:52.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/jaknonymous on 2025-03-13 00:20:25.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/nuttybudd on 2025-03-13 00:19:19.

Original Title: TIL Apple's first CEO, Michael Scott, once personally fired forty Apple employees, believing they were redundant. Later the same day, he gathered employees around a keg of beer and stated, "I'll fire people until it's fun again." Following this event, he was demoted to vice chairman.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/LookAtThatBacon on 2025-03-12 23:45:56.

Original Title: TIL in 2015, Thomson Reuters experienced a "reply all" email storm when an employee located in the Philippines accidentally sent an email requesting his phone to be re-activated to over 33,000 coworkers. Seven hours later, the original email resulted in nearly 23 million emails.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TriviaDuchess on 2025-03-12 23:13:52.

Original Title: TIL Aaron Burr was the U.S. Vice President in July 1804 when he killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel and continued to serve until his term ended eight months later. Charges of murder were complicated by the fact that Hamilton was shot in New Jersey but died in New York.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Olshansk on 2025-03-12 22:31:25.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/SaltyPeter3434 on 2025-03-12 21:29:25.

Original Title: TIL while voice actor Tara Strong was recording crying noises for her character Dill Pickles on Rugrats, the producers stopped her because her crying was so real that she made a woman in the studio lactate

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/koala_on_a_treadmill on 2025-03-12 19:34:42.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Green_man_in_a_tree on 2025-03-12 18:56:40.

Original Title: TIL about the “Bonus Army,” WWI veterans who in 1932 marched to D.C. demanding their promised wartime bonuses. Under Hoover’s orders, U.S. troops led by Gen. MacArthur used tear gas, bayonets, and tanks to crush them, killing 2 and injuring many.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Wooden_Carpenter8043 on 2025-03-12 18:15:37.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/InmostJoy on 2025-03-12 15:58:15.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/No_Yogurtcloset1274 on 2025-03-12 15:12:59.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Legimus on 2025-03-12 14:15:48.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2025-03-12 14:08:23.

Original Title: TIL Goalkeeper Tommaso Berni spend 6 years under contract to Inter Milan, reportedly earning around €200,000 a year. During those 6 years, he never made a single appearance for the club but managed to get a red card on two occasions, one for sarcastically applauding the referee and one for dissent

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