Today I Learned (TIL)

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/CosmicMando on 2025-03-02 15:48:33.

Original Title: TIL that the 1928 Summer Olympics was the first to allow women to race in the 800m, but after media coverage claimed women couldn’t handle the race, it was removed from the Olympics for 32 years, only returning in 1960.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/thesunjrs on 2025-03-02 08:36:36.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/lynndotpy on 2025-03-02 15:44:16.

Original Title: TIL the term "fragging" originated during the highly unpopular Vietnam War, when U.S. soldiers would kill a fellow soldier, usually a superior, using a fragmentation grenade to make it look accidental.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Capital_Tailor_7348 on 2025-03-02 15:05:54.

Original Title: TIL that First Lady of the United States does not have to be the President’s wife and other women have held the title when the President was a widower or single. Most commonly a daughter, niece, or sister of the President.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Morganbanefort on 2025-03-02 14:54:56.

Original Title: TIL that a nuclear worker in Japan was exposed to 17 Sieverts of radiation (twice the amount that should kill a person). He was kept alive for 83 days, suffering serious radiation burns to his body, severe organ failure, and an almost zero white blood cell count.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Dog_Weasley on 2025-03-02 14:09:24.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/FullOGreenPeaness on 2025-03-02 13:50:50.

Original Title: TIL that Dr. Seuss wrote a training film for the US military called “Our Job in Japan,” meant to train soldiers for the military occupation of the country. It was suppressed by Douglas MacArthur for being too sympathetic to the Japanese.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/jacknunn on 2025-03-02 13:15:28.

Original Title: TIL because the Arctic mammal the Pika doesn't hibernate, they must store food for winter by making hay piles. Pikas choose some plants that inhibit bacterial growth and act as a hay-pile preservatives

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/trey0824 on 2025-03-02 11:59:10.

Original Title: TIL that in 1999, Jim Henson’s children bought Charlie Chaplin’s historic 1917 studio in Hollywood for $12.5M as the new home of The Jim Henson Company. Once Chaplin’s and briefly Hanna-Barbera’s first studio, it later housed A&M Records. A Kermit statue as Chaplin’s Tramp now stands at the entrance

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/unclear_warfare on 2025-03-02 11:38:26.

Original Title: TIL that in 1917 the USA granted citizenship to Puerto Ricans, and 2 months later imposed conscription for entry into WWI, applicable to all male citizens which now included Puerto Ricans. About 20,000 served in WWI

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/GDW312 on 2025-03-02 11:18:34.

Original Title: TIL about 'information hazards'—true information that can be dangerous to know, such as how to build a nuclear bomb, DNA sequences of deadly pathogens, or even knowledge that once got people accused of witchcraft.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2025-03-02 10:52:52.

Original Title: TIL Male to female anal sex was illegal in renaissance Florence. In 1510, in an attempt to damage N.Machiavelli's rising career as a bureaucrat, someone filed an anonymus report, which was posted publicly: "N.Machiavelli is fucking Lucretia, known as Riccia, in the ass". The charge was dropped

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/thesmartass1 on 2025-03-02 10:43:57.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/cherrysundaedream on 2025-03-02 08:01:46.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Giff95 on 2025-03-02 07:11:04.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Flares117 on 2025-03-02 06:09:50.

Original Title: TIL: The MEDUSA weapon was created in 2004 and designed to incapacitate crowds of people using auditory pulses. It was purchased by SNC which had contracts with the DoD and Navy. However in 2008 SNC claims the weapon was discontinued as it may cause permanent brain damage.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/CosmicMando on 2025-03-02 05:49:08.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/waitingforthesun92 on 2025-03-02 05:34:05.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/notprocrastinatingok on 2025-03-02 05:00:27.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/FullOGreenPeaness on 2025-03-02 03:43:21.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/fap_fap_fap_fapper on 2025-03-02 02:27:02.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/katscarlettx on 2025-03-02 02:12:24.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Minardi-Man on 2025-03-02 01:55:07.

Original Title: TIL that the last ever original Mini to leave the factory was a car that was used by workers to get around the plant, had a shipping container dropped on it, stripped of its engine and gearbox, and abandoned in one of the service tunnels. It was recovered and sold at an auction in 2013.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/makeitbab3 on 2025-03-01 22:58:20.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/NapalmBurns on 2025-03-01 22:34:09.

Original Title: TIL of Edgar Nollner, who, upon his death in 1999, was the longest surviving musher of The Serum Run - a mission to deliver diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled to an Alaskan town of Nome. During his later years, Edgar was married twice, had 23 children and over 200 grandchildren.