Today I Learned (TIL)

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Away-Lynx8702 on 2025-02-28 01:53:22.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/LookAtThatBacon on 2025-02-28 01:35:44.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Flares117 on 2025-02-28 00:51:31.

Original Title: TIL: Egyptian burial sites also have "meat mummies" which is mummified meat so the rulers have something to eat along with their mummified servants. In Ancient Rome, funeral banquets were held in front of the tomb and the mourners would pour alcohol into the corpse's mouth.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/tornedron_ on 2025-02-27 23:38:48.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/brain_of_salt on 2025-02-27 21:48:05.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/rcmaehl on 2025-02-27 21:01:32.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/ClownfishSoup on 2025-02-27 20:55:37.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2025-02-27 20:47:35.

Original Title: TIL Under pressure from catholic circles, laws against the exploitation of Native Americans in the colonies were in place as early as 1512, and eventually the Pope entirely outlawed their enslavement, which produced an even more pro-native set of laws. They were largely ignored/opposed by settlers

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/pm_me_BMW_M3_GTR_pls on 2025-02-27 19:40:42.

Original Title: TIL of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret society during the American Civil War that aimed to create a new country based in Havana, by expanding the Confederacy around the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/OfficerRexBishop on 2025-02-27 19:40:12.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/No_Inevitable_4893 on 2025-02-27 18:30:57.

Original Title: TIL longer passwords are considered more secure than more complex passwords. A password of length 20 using only letters and numbers is much more secure than a password of length 15 that uses letters, numbers, and symbols

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TriviaDuchess on 2025-02-27 18:02:15.

Original Title: TIL in a very early conflict of the Revolutionary War, a contingent of North Carolina militia battled British Loyalists armed only with swords in the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge. In less than an hour, the militia inflicted 50 British casualties and captured 850, while suffering only 2 casualties.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TeeTeeElla on 2025-02-27 17:47:49.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/nuttybudd on 2025-02-27 17:32:00.

Original Title: TIL the seemingly random string of letters and numbers "ji32k7au4a83" is a common password to use with online accounts because it spells out ""my password" in Chinese when using the Zhuyin keyboard layout to type.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Unique-Ad9640 on 2025-02-27 17:10:54.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/WouldbeWanderer on 2025-02-27 16:43:41.

Original Title: TIL about Ovicula, a plant discovered in 2024 by Big Bend National Park botanist Debra Manley. Named "wooly devil" because of its hairy leaves and ray florets resembling devil horns, it is the first new plant species discovered in a U.S. National Park since 1976.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Feed_Your_Curiosity on 2025-02-27 15:46:51.

Original Title: TIL that during WWII, Japan launched over 9,000 balloon bombs toward the U.S. mainland, carried by the jet stream across the Pacific. These balloon bombs were the first intercontinental weapon system in history and caused the only civilian deaths in the continental U.S. from enemy action during WWII

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/HijikataZenno on 2025-02-27 15:45:54.

Original Title: TIL Chinese film Director Hu bo killed himself shortly after completing his first feature film 'An Elephant Sitting Still' because of the stress created by producers to reduce the runtime of the movie which was almost 4 hours long.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/NoTePierdas on 2025-02-27 15:42:46.

Original Title: TIL Michelin (the tire/food rating company) produced maps so accurately, that the US military in WWII (and thus the western allies) simply updated an older edition, and printed them to sheets to be distributed to officers, NCOs and obviously command positions.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/SamsonFox2 on 2025-02-27 15:05:41.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Mortifine on 2025-02-27 14:13:38.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Pleasant_Scar9811 on 2025-02-27 13:52:11.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/BadenBaden1981 on 2025-02-27 13:45:16.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Obajan on 2025-02-27 11:50:51.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/FullOGreenPeaness on 2025-02-27 12:52:02.

Original Title: TIL that the Pubic Wars was a rivalry between Playboy and Penthouse magazines in the 60s and 70s to gradually show more pubic hair on their models without drawing obscenity charges. The “war” ended when Hustler magazine launched and immediately showed more graphic photographs.