Today I Learned (TIL)

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/zahrul3 on 2025-03-03 14:14:36.

Original Title: TIL a group led by a real estate agent and a luxury car dealer managed to break into an airport and stole €38,000,000 worth of diamonds being loaded onto a plane, without firing a single shot and without plane passengers knowing what happened.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/ChangeNarrow5633 on 2025-03-03 13:15:06.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Patient-Freedom-9284 on 2025-03-03 13:01:57.

Original Title: TIL that in the past decade, some obese patients were sent to zoos for MRI and CT scans because standard hospital machines couldn't accommodate their weight. Zoos have larger scanners designed for big animals, making them a practical solution in these cases.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TMWNN on 2025-03-03 12:59:56.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TMWNN on 2025-03-03 12:50:06.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TMWNN on 2025-03-03 12:37:55.

Original Title: TIL that when designing the Hewlett-Packard 9100A desktop calculator, Bill Hewlett insisted that it be small enough to fit on his desk's typewriter stand. The prototype was slightly too large. A HP carpenter secretly modified the desk so the calculator would fit.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/jacknunn on 2025-03-03 12:21:39.

Original Title: TIL Julian of Norwich was an English anchoress of the Middle Ages. Her writings are the earliest surviving English-language works attributed to a woman. They are also the only surviving English-language works by an anchoress

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TMWNN on 2025-03-03 12:16:28.

Original Title: TIL that in the German-language version of 'Airplane' (1980), the Barbara Billingsley jive scene was dubbed in a Bavarian dialect that other German speakers have difficulty understanding. The joke is as effective in the dubbed version as in the English original.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/RealTeslaFan on 2025-03-03 11:22:31.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Johannes_P on 2025-03-03 09:47:54.

Original Title: TIL from 1961 to 1965, Mossad operative Eli Cohen spied in Syria as Kamal Amin Thaabet, managed to integrate the highest ranks of military and government and was considered to become deputy minister for defense until caught by counterintelligence

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/gullydon on 2025-03-03 07:50:00.

Original Title: TIL the British pet massacre was a week-long event in 1939 in which an estimated 400,000 cats and dogs, a quarter of England's pet population, were killed so that food used for animals be reserved to prepare for World War II food shortages.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/misogichan on 2025-03-03 04:53:25.

Original Title: TIL In the 16th century upper class women wore Visards when outside. The black, oval masks kept their faces from getting tanned, which was associated with the poor. Attached to it was a string with a glass bead a woman would hold in her mouth to keep the mask on.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TriviaDuchess on 2025-03-03 04:53:25.

Original Title: TIL John Young is the only astronaut to walk on the Moon and fly the Space Shuttle. He also flew in the Gemini and Apollo programs, commanded the first Space Shuttle flight, and participated in the Spacelab program. He left NASA after criticizing its safety following the Challenger disaster.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/No_Pianist3260 on 2025-03-03 04:03:12.

Original Title: TIL that Adrien Brody originally portrayed the main character, Geoffrey Fife, in Terrance Malick's Thin Red Line (1998) However in post production he was replaced without his knowledge with Jim Caviezel who portrayed another character entirely. Brody found out after taking his family to the premiere

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Moskeeto93 on 2025-03-03 02:09:13.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Apart-Bid-6033 on 2025-03-03 01:23:48.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/ihaveacrushonmercy on 2025-03-03 01:16:04.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/ebksince2012 on 2025-03-03 00:26:35.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Cultural_Magician105 on 2025-03-02 23:01:51.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Stephen_1984 on 2025-03-02 22:22:22.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-03-02 22:48:50.

Original Title: TIL UK teenager Olivia Farnsworth has a rare condition known as chromosome 6 deletion, which causes her to not feel hunger, pain, or a sense of danger. She is the only known person in the world who possesses all three of these symptoms together.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/FootballPizzaMan on 2025-03-02 22:06:28.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/old-guy-with-data on 2025-03-02 20:52:36.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Hotlikestott on 2025-03-02 19:43:07.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/unclear_warfare on 2025-03-02 17:23:48.

Original Title: TIL that the Spanish flu epidemic was especially severe in Alaska, causing 51% of all deaths there in 1918-19. It was particularly severe for the natives, which was one reason a diphtheria outbreak there in 1925 was treated as such an emergency