Today I Learned (TIL)

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/blossomtia on 2024-10-10 15:12:38.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/sirabaddon on 2024-10-10 14:14:58.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/jimi15 on 2024-10-10 11:43:35.

Original Title: TIL DVD started out as two competing standards by Sony/Phillips and Toshiba/Time Warner. The two ended up unifying into a single project after IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Compaq and Hewlett Packard said they would boycott booth unless they did so.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/DangerNoodle1993 on 2024-10-10 11:22:20.

Original Title: TIL of Bess Myerson who was the first Miss America, to be Jewish, in 1945. Reactions to her win were mixed, while Jews hailed her a hero and compared her to Queen Esther, 3 out of the 5 sponsors of Miss America refused to have her represent them. She later became a politician

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/tomekzak on 2024-10-09 16:07:45.

Original Title: TIL there’s a secret material called FOGBANK that is used in nuclear warheads. "The material is classified. Its composition is classified. Its use in the weapon is classified, and the process itself is classified.”

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/giuliomagnifico on 2024-10-10 09:38:00.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/hariseldon2 on 2024-10-10 09:32:07.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/swz on 2024-10-10 09:19:18.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Idontknowofname on 2024-10-10 08:11:33.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/PinheadLarry2323 on 2024-10-10 07:58:01.

Original Title: TIL Dictator Muammar Gaddafi had a strange obsession with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He had Libya's most famous composer write her a song called "Black Flower in the White House." A photo album full of pictures of her was also found next to his bed by opposition fighters

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/tomekzak on 2024-10-10 06:20:28.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/AST_XS1S on 2024-10-10 04:56:04.

Original Title: TIL humans can have a form of echolocation.Just by clicking their tongue or simply snapping their fingers they can know where they are, or where to go.About 30 percent of blind people use this with their stick that most use. Even people who aren't blind can do this with lots of patience and training

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/LookAtThatBacon on 2024-10-10 03:36:29.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2024-10-10 03:24:25.

Original Title: TIL when bowler Peter Weber famously exclaimed "Who do you think you are I am?" after he won the 2012 US Open on ESPN, what he meant to say was "Who do you think you are rooting against me? I am the man in this tournament!" He directed it at a young heckler who would jeer him during his approach

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Double-decker_trams on 2024-10-10 02:43:07.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/enjoyyournight on 2024-10-10 02:17:29.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/GeneralIronsides2 on 2024-10-10 01:09:14.

Original Title: TIL that a group of American sugar plantation owners with support of the US Government overthrew the last Queen of Hawaii, Queen Liliuokalani to make Hawaii a US Protectorate. Hawaii would later be annexed.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TheSanityInspector on 2024-10-10 00:34:49.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Fishblaster69 on 2024-10-09 23:02:42.

Original Title: TIL US president Benjamin Harrison was widowed while in office in 1892. Four years later, Harrison married his dead wife's niece and had a daughter with her. His adult children who were around 40 years old, were horrified that their father married their cousin and didn't attend the wedding.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/A_Mirabeau_702 on 2024-10-09 20:49:06.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/EtOHMartini on 2024-10-09 20:41:51.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/AutomaticInfluence64 on 2024-10-10 00:17:36.

Original Title: TIL in 1874, Mary Rafferty came to Dr. Roberts Bartholow at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati for a lesion. The lesion was diagnosed as cancerous and surgery was attempted. Bartholow saw her lesion as terminal so decided to experiment on her exposed brain. He was condemned by his peers for this.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/LadyWarrior73 on 2024-10-09 23:53:44.

Original Title: TIL about The Million Dollar Highway in Colorado. It was built in 1883 as a toll way and operated as such until the 1920s when it was rebuilt. Legend has it that an early traveler was so overcome by vertigo on the steep, winding road that he said he would never travel it again even for a million $.

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/jacknunn on 2024-10-09 23:23:05.

Original Title: TIL about Sigfox, a global network operator founded in 2010 that built wireless networks to connect low-power devices over large areas and to reach underground objects. As of November 2020, the network covered a total of 5.8 million square kilometers in 72 countries

The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Robb_Banks on 2024-10-09 22:34:19.