Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/GetYerHandOffMyPen15 on 2025-02-12 03:24:30.

Original Title: TIL that in 1998, NATO translated Dr. Seuss’ “Sneetches and Other Stories” into Serbo-Croatian and planned to distribute 500,000 copies in Bosnia to teach children about tolerance. The plans were later scaled back because they did not meet NATO standards.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Cowguypig2 on 2025-02-12 03:24:35.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/sb206 on 2025-02-12 02:23:51.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/BeefsteakChuckies on 2025-02-11 23:51:22.

Original Title: TIL that George Metesky (aka the Mad Bomber) terrorized NYC over a 16 year span by planting a total of 33 explosives throughout the city, many in buildings like Penn Station, Grand Central & Radio City. He was caught in 1957 after responding to a newspaper that demanded he turn himself in.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/BeefsteakChuckies on 2025-02-11 23:36:22.

Original Title: TIL that even though September is not the most common birth month in the U.S., 9 of the top 10 most common birthdays fall between Sept 9th - Sept 20th. This correlates to abnormally high conception rates during the December holiday season aka “New Years Babies”

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/ScienceAcrobatic2895 on 2025-02-11 23:11:13.

Original Title: TIL Theodore Roosevelt was shot during a speech and kept talking for 84 minutes. He got shot in the chest, but because he had a thick speech manuscript in his pocket, the bullet was slowed. He refused medical attention, continued his speech, and said, "It takes more than that to kill a bull moose."

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Stauce52 on 2025-02-11 21:41:19.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/AngryBowlofPopcorn on 2025-02-11 21:28:40.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/bobstonite on 2025-02-11 21:13:53.

Original Title: TIL that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had bad handwriting, and before his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" was published, Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker had to puzzle out what was written on the scraps of paper smuggling out of King's jail cell

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Cranjis_McHockey on 2025-02-11 21:11:37.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/jurornumber1 on 2025-02-11 18:34:22.

Original Title: TIL of the largest general strike in history in May 1968, when 11 million French citizens spent 2 weeks on strike to protest the heavy-handed police response to student protests earlier that year, resulting in an early election call

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TCBear on 2025-02-11 20:04:41.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/LegerDomain on 2025-02-11 19:52:32.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/ercohn on 2025-02-11 18:30:53.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Ill_Definition8074 on 2025-02-11 18:20:00.

Original Title: TIL In 2002 German actor Günther Kaufmann confessed that he had fallen on his accountant and accidentally suffocated the man to death with his 260-pound body. But in 2005 it was discovered that Kaufmann was innocent and had confessed to protect his dying wife who had murdered the man.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Diligent_Mode7203 on 2025-02-11 16:43:19.

Original Title: TIL Tom Hanks owns more than 300 typewriters. His fascination runs so deep that he even developed an app, Hanx Writer, designed to emulate the feel and sound of a classic typewriter on modern devices.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/AlphatierchenX on 2025-02-11 16:36:49.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/justatheery on 2025-02-11 15:30:30.

Original Title: TIL Nicéphore Niépce was the inventor of photography, and the first photographer. He also invented one of the world's first internal combustion engines, an early bicycle, and the concept for a motor-cycle.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-02-11 15:23:10.

Original Title: TIL King Edward I (known as Longshanks) had at least 14 children (4 sons, 9 daughters and 1 unknown) with his first wife Eleanor of Castile, but 8 of them died by age eleven including 7 by age six and 5 by age three. The only son to survive past age eleven was eventual King Edward II.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/rezikiel on 2025-02-11 15:22:14.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Tracker-man on 2025-02-11 14:13:21.

Original Title: TIL about the Puckle Gun, an early automatic weapon designed to fire round bullets at Christians and square bullets at Muslim Turks. Square bullets were believed to cause more severe wounds than round ones.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/ApprehensiveBet6501 on 2025-02-11 13:19:35.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Space_Carmelo on 2025-02-11 12:28:10.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/OmegaCollector25 on 2025-02-11 11:38:30.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-02-11 10:50:02.

Original Title: TIL 6 years after Martha Stewart started her own catering company in 1976, a publisher (impressed with her chef skills) got her to write a cookbook which launched her career. By 1999, she consolidated her "media empire" & took it public which made her the first female self-made billionaire in the US

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