Today I Learned (TIL)

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Frisk-256 on 2024-10-11 13:41:56.

Original Title: TIL that in world war 2, English soldiers would use passwords that had sounds that the language of the people they where fighting against did not have, so that they could tell if an unidentified person was an enemy soldier tying to infiltrate them by if they said these sounds correctly.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2024-10-11 13:31:09.

Original Title: TIL no film has ever won all four acting awards at the Oscars (Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, & Best Supporting Actress) and only three films have ever won three out of the four: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Network (1976), and Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/superanth on 2024-10-11 12:10:18.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/AnthillOmbudsman on 2024-10-11 06:29:18.

Original Title: TIL the world's first hard drive, the IBM 350, was introduced in 1956. It was leased to companies for $37,600/month (adjusted to 2024), weighed one ton, and held 3.75 MB, about the size of a small PDF file.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/La_Quica1 on 2024-10-11 05:54:12.

Original Title: TIL that former President of Liberia Charles King has been awarded the Guinness World Record for the most fraudulent election in history. In the 1927 election, he secured victory with 234,000 votes in a country with a population of only 15,000.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/saravannan14 on 2024-10-11 05:05:15.

Original Title: TIL of FK Arkadag, a football club founded by the former Turkmenistan President in 2023. This non-corrupt team is so good that they were included in the Turkmenistan top flight right from its foundation and would go on to win 2 league titles and 1 Turkmenistan Cup, winning EVERY game along the way.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/The_Critical_Cynic on 2024-10-11 03:03:44.

Original Title: TIL a scene from The Color of Money, a movie that follows a trio as they hustle at pool halls while making their way to a nine-ball tournament in Atlantic City, and sequel to the 1961 film The Hustler, inspired the name for Doom, a popular first person shooter created by id Software in 1993.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/saravannan14 on 2024-10-11 02:02:05.

Original Title: TIL of the Malaysian version of rock paper scissors called One Two Som which uses Rock, Water and Bird. Water is a stretched out palm (same as paper), but a Bird is represented by all five finger tips held together to form a bird beak. Rock kills Bird, Bird drinks Water, and Water sinks Rock.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TapTheMic on 2024-10-11 01:36:57.

Original Title: TIL that while the country of El Salvador "The Savior" is named after Jesus (the name brought by Spanish conquistadors) the original name according to the indigenous Nahua Pipil people was Kuskatan. The name means "The Place of Precious Jewels."

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/DarthDiggler501 on 2024-10-11 01:19:35.

Original Title: TIL the sound a whip makes when you crack it is caused by a sonic boom created when the tip of a whip moves faster than the speed of sound. The whip was also the first man made object to break the sound barrier.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/jacknunn on 2024-10-11 00:21:16.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/WouldbeWanderer on 2024-10-11 00:11:35.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/symbolms on 2024-10-11 00:11:17.

Original Title: TIL that Bismuth, the active ingredient in Pepto-Bismol, technically has no stable isotopes - however its most stable and common isotope has a half-life more than a billion times the age of the universe. (Some more facts in the comments)

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/RazeTheIV on 2024-10-11 00:07:45.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/cuspofgreatness on 2024-10-10 22:09:22.

Original Title: TIL in 2023 a massive pumpkin named ‘Michael Jordan’ squashed the world record for the heaviest gourd at the World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in California. Travis Gienger, a Minnesota horticultural teacher, earned $30,000 in prize money. His 2,749lb pumpkin beat the previous record by 47lb.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/ConsciousPatroller on 2024-10-10 21:00:30.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/skulloflugosi on 2024-10-10 20:38:55.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Flurb4 on 2024-10-10 20:28:50.

Original Title: TIL that Comet Swift-Tuttle is the largest comet to make repeated close approaches to Earth. A collision would release 27 times the energy of the impact that caused the extinction of dinosaurs. It has been described as "the single most dangerous object known to humanity".

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/enad58 on 2024-10-10 18:59:04.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Colgatederpful on 2024-10-10 18:41:27.

Original Title: TIL that a man sued his own search warrant and won the case in the Supreme Court. Titled Marcus v. Search Warrant, he believed the warrant was too vague and was unable to sue any of the agents as they acted within the law.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/ChuckleBunnyRamen on 2024-10-10 17:30:01.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Lowfuji on 2024-10-10 17:16:40.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/BabyAffleck on 2024-10-10 16:32:56.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/banditta82 on 2024-10-10 15:36:40.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/JackThaBongRipper on 2024-10-10 15:31:39.

Original Title: TIL that a herbert box is a region of the tropical Atlantic Ocean that can be used as an indicator for powerful hurricanes that may strike south Florida. Storms that have passed through a herbert box have collectively killed over 5,000 people