Today I Learned (TIL)

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/aerostotle on 2025-02-06 23:09:36.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Aggravating-Gap9791 on 2025-02-06 19:50:49.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/trbotwuk on 2025-02-06 19:32:43.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Missisizzuwaifubaobe on 2025-02-06 17:25:38.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TMWNN on 2025-02-06 11:57:20.

Original Title: TIL that author Len Deighton is also an expert chef and artist. In the 1960s his "cookstrips", simple recipes in cartoon form, appeared in newspapers. When they were collected in books, Deighton in 1965 became a best-selling author of spy novels and cookbooks at the same time.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/CursedHeartland on 2025-02-06 10:01:43.

Original Title: TIL that the first combat drones appeared in 1930-1940. These were radio-controlled unmanned tanks that could drive, shoot and even self-destruct at command from the outside. Usually they were controlled from another tank

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/GetYerHandOffMyPen15 on 2025-02-06 07:18:58.

Original Title: TIL that The Guess Who (best known for the song "American Woman") was originally known as Chad Allan & The Expressions. Their record label credited their first single to "Guess Who?" in a cheap ploy to make consumers think they were a popular British Invasion band hiding their identity.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Jake_Jacobson on 2025-02-06 21:35:06.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/orangeflyingmonkey_ on 2025-02-06 21:19:11.

Original Title: TIL that a curb in Hayward, CA, sat on the Hayward Fault and slowly split apart by 4mm per year. Geologists used it to track tectonic movement for decades—until the city unknowingly destroyed it in 2016.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-02-06 20:23:06.

Original Title: TIL in 2011 a wolf known as OR-7 was electronically tracked migrating more than 1,000 miles "presumably in search of a mate." He became the first confirmed wild wolf in western Oregon since 1947 & the first in California since 1924. By 2015, he, a mate & their offspring were called the "Rogue Pack."

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/eelikay on 2025-02-06 19:32:36.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Prestigious_Cake_192 on 2025-02-06 19:14:30.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/opalandolive on 2025-02-06 19:09:30.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/No-Community- on 2025-02-06 19:02:24.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/wimpykidfan37 on 2025-02-06 18:52:59.

Original Title: Today I learned that women's soccer was banned in many countries from the 1940s to the 1970s. In England, the ban began as early as 1921, with England's Football Association stating that "the game of football is quite unsuitable for females and ought not to be encouraged."

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2025-02-06 16:21:52.

Original Title: TIL Writer Nikolai Gogol slowly died of self starvation after refusing all food. His doctors tried to cure him through a number of brutal methods such as force feeding him bouillon, pouring a bucket of hot water on his head, applying half a dozen leeches on his nose and a soap suppository

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/ATSTlover on 2025-02-06 15:37:49.

Original Title: TIL the Steve Martin, Rick Moranis comedy, My Blue Heaven, and the Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas both came out in 1990, and were both based on the life mobster Henry Hill. Goodfellas was based on the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, while the screenplay for My Blue Heaven was written by his wife

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/rezikiel on 2025-02-06 13:24:06.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TMWNN on 2025-02-06 12:54:08.

Original Title: TIL that an actress pretended to be Polish her entire life. Olga Petrova spoke with a Polish accent, even in her private life, and said that she was born in Warsaw. She was really Muriel Harding, born in England.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TMWNN on 2025-02-06 12:42:27.

Original Title: TIL that pornography shut down a TV network in Scotland. When Grampian Television staff in northern Scotland were found watching Deep Throat in the studio, the manager was fired. His union called a strike, ending ITV broadcasts in the area. The strike ended when the manager resigned "voluntarily".

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/zahrul3 on 2025-02-06 07:31:06.

Original Title: TIL of the Tandy Model 100, the first commercially successful portable computer. It could type in 11 pages worth of unformatted text and nothing more. It was mainly used by journalists and people programming industrial/lab control systems due to its portability.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/zahrul3 on 2025-02-06 06:36:16.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Flares117 on 2025-02-06 02:10:13.

Original Title: TIL: In the "Battle of the 300 Champions" between Sparta and Argos in 546 BC. Rather than wasting the lives of their armies, both agreed to use 300 men and sent the rest home. 2 Argives and 1 Spartan survived. The Argives left thinking they won, so technically the Spartan was the last man standing.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Remote-Ad-3309 on 2025-02-06 05:04:20.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Flares117 on 2025-02-06 04:51:49.

Original Title: TIL: William Halsted was a famous surgeon and a founder of Johns Hopkins, but was addicted to cocaine and used it during surgeries. He would inject himself with cocaine to test it before using it on patients. Eventually his writings for the NY Medical Journal became incoherent.