Today I Learned (TIL)

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/huninnuvna69 on 2024-12-03 19:14:59.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Abian36 on 2024-12-03 19:07:42.

Original Title: TIL about Frederick Roberts, British General and the only other person of the 20th Century apart from Winston Churchill to lie in state in Westminster Hall that wasn't a member of the British Royal Family

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Bluest_waters on 2024-12-03 18:53:26.

Original Title: TIL George Lucas originally envisioned Indiana Jones as a nightclub going womanizer. But his writing partner nixed that and suggested making the Ark of the Covenant as the goal of Indiana's quest as his hematologist told him about it. Spielberg agreed to direct only after losing out on James Bond.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/NOWiEATthem on 2024-12-03 18:52:30.

Original Title: TIL that actor Raymond Burr (Perry Mason, Rear Window) refused to ever appear on The Tonight Show because Johnny Carson often told fat jokes about him, and Burr would feel compelled to confront Carson about "the bad jokes he does about everybody who can't fight back because they aren't there."

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Ozem_son_of_Jesse on 2024-12-03 18:34:20.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Rock540 on 2024-12-03 18:08:56.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Purehealthclinic on 2024-12-03 17:50:53.

Original Title: TIL that NAFLD non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is now called MASLD. Stands for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease. Affects more than 30% of the population globally and rising. Key risk for heart disease. Main cause is insulin resistance. Weight loss of 5-7% can reduce it.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/RangoTheMerc on 2024-12-03 17:38:23.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/westondeboer on 2024-12-03 17:09:42.

Original Title: TIL about the Danish Protest Pig, a breed created in the early 1900s by Danes under Prussian rule. Unable to display their red-and-white national flag, they bred pigs with a similar color pattern as a symbolic act of rebellion. The breed is now recognized as a cultural symbol of resistance.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Briggykins on 2024-12-03 16:29:49.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/hosseinhx77 on 2024-12-03 15:40:47.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/drak0bsidian on 2024-12-03 14:48:09.

Original Title: TIL a town in Colorado had an unelected mayor serve for over 50 years. He was appointed mayor pro tem because the then-mayor didn't want to sign liquor licenses, and inherited the post when the mayor died. The town considered doing an election in 1974, but it was too expensive.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/plexxer on 2024-12-03 14:30:58.

Original Title: TIL that, early in the AIDS epidemic, an executive of the company that made a popular weight loss drug named 'AYDS' was quoted as saying "The product has been around for 45 years. Let the disease change its name."

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/d41mm on 2024-12-03 14:01:12.

Original Title: TIL FBI agent John O’Neill, who left his federal position because his attempts to warn of an imminent al-Qaeda attack on U.S. soil in early 2001 were ignored, got hired as the WTC chief of security three weeks before 9/11 and was killed in the attack.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TMWNN on 2024-12-03 13:13:18.

Original Title: TIL that an NFL player simultaneously served in the US Navy. Napoleon McCallum played for the LA Raiders while assigned to a ship in Los Angeles; the military allows outside jobs that don't interfere with service. After one year he was reassigned; McCallum returned to the NFL after leaving the Navy.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/UndyingCorn on 2024-12-03 11:32:53.

Original Title: TIL While Charles Darwin and the Captain of the HMS Beagle Robert FitzRoy mostly got along well together, they still had quarrels sometimes "bordering on insanity", as Darwin later recalled. The captain had such a violent temper, his outbursts gained him the nickname "Hot Coffee".

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Personal-Umpire-1196 on 2024-12-03 10:51:52.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TCTriangle on 2024-12-03 10:50:56.

Original Title: TIL that Mammoth Cave was used as the site of an experimental hospital to treat tuberculosis. 16 patients lived in darkness in buildings constructed underground. 5 patients died and the experiment was ended within 5 months.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/astarisaslave on 2024-12-03 10:37:33.

Original Title: TIL that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was inspired by the rivalry between candymakers Cadbury and Rowntree's during Roald Dahl's childhood. Both sent spies to each other to steal trade secrets and eventually became highly protective of their respective chocolate-making processes.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/UndyingCorn on 2024-12-03 10:34:13.

Original Title: TIL The first reference to files in the context of computing was in 1940 when a computer function was stored in a “file of punched cards”. The idea of a file system that managed virtual "files" on a storage device was introduced in 1961 by the Burroughs MCP and the MIT Compatible Time-Sharing System

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Sol33t303 on 2024-12-03 06:42:46.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/zahrul3 on 2024-12-03 04:50:16.

Original Title: TIL that the most advanced semiconductors (as of 2023) are manufactured by precisely shooting a beam of plasma at a droplet of (molten) tin, creating an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) beam necessary to manufacture a 5nm transistor.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/HauntedFrigateBird on 2024-12-03 02:04:08.

Original Title: TIL That most female cheetahs go their entire lives without raising a single cub to maturity. The species is dependent on "supermoms" that are particularly adept at raising cubs. One such supermom, Eleanor, has mothered at least 10% of all adult cheetahs in the southern Serengeti.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/appalachian_hatachi on 2024-12-03 00:58:43.

Original Title: TIL: That when cast as a child prostitute in the movie Taxi Driver; Jodie Foster had to undergo psychiatric assessments and was accompanied at all times by a social worker on set. Her older sister Connie acted as her stand-in when it came to sexually suggestive scenes.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/reCaptchaLater on 2024-12-03 00:16:15.