Today I Learned (TIL)

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You learn something new every day; what did you learn today? Submit interesting and specific facts about something that you just found out here.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/dabmandan on 2025-02-03 14:32:26.

Original Title: TIL that every Texas Ranger's badge is carved from Mexican silver, rather than cast like most other badges. Standard issue badges are all made almost exclusively using 1947 or 1948 Cinco Peso coins by only three master silversmiths and engravers.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/nuttybudd on 2025-02-03 12:42:20.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/jacknunn on 2025-02-03 12:03:42.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/rawrsthehusky on 2025-02-03 11:15:46.

Original Title: TIL Ted Fujita, meteorology scientist and father of the Fujita tornado scale, had his life saved by the weather. He was in Kokura on the day of the second atomic bombing. Kokura was the first target, which couldn’t be done due to bad weather, they went with the secondary target of Nagasaki.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Johannes_P on 2025-02-03 10:23:58.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/zahrul3 on 2025-02-03 09:15:46.

Original Title: TIL that early semiconductors, before CAD, were made by hand drawing the circuit design on graph paper at an extremely enlarged scale, then cutting that design onto a film called Rubylith, which was used to create the final photolithographic mask. Repeat for all layers on a chip.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/MajesticBread9147 on 2025-02-03 09:21:11.

Original Title: TIL "I've Never Met a Nice South African" was a 1986 anti-apartheid song where the songs narrator states that despite the numerous unlikely things they've seen they've never met a nice South African. The chorus has South Africans describing themselves as "arrogant bastards who hate black people"

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TriviaDuchess on 2025-02-03 04:06:42.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/BrickHerder on 2025-02-03 03:48:53.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/ProudReaction2204 on 2025-02-03 02:45:28.

Original Title: TIL the achilles tendon on an ape is short or non-existent whereas humans have long ones. Computer models suggest that energy stored in the tendon increases top running speed by over 80% and reduces energy consumption by more than 3/4

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/the2belo on 2025-02-03 01:16:33.

Original Title: TIL Charles Lindbergh's flight, while being the first solo transatlantic nonstop crossing, was not the first ever; that was achieved 8 years earlier by British pilots John Alcock and Arthur Brown in 1919

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Flares117 on 2025-02-02 22:22:37.

Original Title: TIL: For All Moonkind is a nonprofit working with the UN to preserve human heritage in space to protect damage to historical sites by tourists or errant explorers. It consists of Space Lawyers, policymakers, and space archeologists. It receives bipartisan support in the US.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Future_Green_7222 on 2025-02-02 18:21:09.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/1poundbookingfee on 2025-02-03 03:26:27.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/ReturnOfTheRover on 2025-02-03 02:40:43.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Critical_Reveal6667 on 2025-02-03 02:32:10.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/LukeD1992 on 2025-02-03 02:11:19.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Trender_man on 2025-02-02 23:31:05.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TriviaDuchess on 2025-02-02 22:15:36.

Original Title: TIL that under New York City, on the lower concourse of Grand Central Station, there’s a windowless, 440-seat oyster and seafood bar that has been serving customers since the terminal’s opening in 1913. Except for brief closures for a fire in 1997 and COVID-19 it has operated continuously.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Arstotzkanmoose on 2025-02-02 21:32:41.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/syn_vamp on 2025-02-02 20:20:35.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Tall_Ant9568 on 2025-02-02 19:20:33.

Original Title: TIL that before Chris Hansen worked on To Catch a Predator, he was an NBC correspondent and investigative reporter that covered, through means of hidden cameras, corruption involving child slave labor and U.S citizen’s collusion with terror groups surrounding the September 11th attacks

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Ill_Definition8074 on 2025-02-02 18:59:32.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Comfortable_Ad2908 on 2025-02-02 18:22:34.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/No_Acanthaceae6880 on 2025-02-02 18:18:38.
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