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/Banglophile on 2025-01-31 15:10:01.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/FlynnPatrick on 2025-01-31 14:39:11.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Double-decker_trams on 2025-01-31 14:28:08.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Joeskis on 2025-01-31 11:58:56.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/MaidenlessRube on 2025-01-31 11:48:52.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/ImNobodyInteresting on 2025-01-31 10:04:19.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Sanguinusshiboleth on 2025-01-31 09:00:43.

Original Title: TIL that when reconstructing the Khufu Ship, a funery boat buried next to the Great Pyramid, Ahmed Youssef Moustafa spent years researching ancient egyptian boat building from reliefs in tomb walls, modern wooden boating techniques and model boats found in egyptian tombs.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/FigureTopAcadia on 2025-01-31 02:44:23.

Original Title: TIL about Joseph Jumonville, a French officer in the French and Indian War who was killed by George Washington’s forces in 1754. Jumonville’s younger brother vowed revenge on Washington, and successfully made Washington surrender at Fort Necessity only five weeks later.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Flares117 on 2025-01-31 08:52:38.

Original Title: TIL: There is an infamous 1855 book, "English as She Is Spoke" which a very poor Portuguese to English guidebook which became popular for it's unintentional humor due to the broken English. Examples include, "What do him?", "I have mind to vomit", and "The walls have hearsay."

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/joe_h on 2025-01-31 08:17:53.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/J_Bear on 2025-01-31 08:09:01.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/zahrul3 on 2025-01-31 08:04:16.

Original Title: TIL that mosquitos cannot withstand the smell of geraniol (from geranium) and linalool (from lavenders). When released into the air by perfume diffusers, geraniol repels 97% of mosquitos and linalool repels 93%.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/KowzuThe on 2025-01-31 05:50:33.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/GetYerHandOffMyPen15 on 2025-01-31 05:27:30.

Original Title: TIL that MGM execs referred to Judy Garland as an “ugly duckling” and "little hunchback," made her wear caps on her teeth and rubber disks in her nose, often fed her a diet of chicken soup and coffee to ensure she didn’t gain weight, and allegedly gave her amphetamines and barbiturates as a child.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Giff95 on 2025-01-31 05:09:47.

Original Title: TIL before Theodore Roosevelt came to office in 1901, the White House wasn't called the White House. People called the building the President's Palace, the President's House, and the Executive Mansion. Roosevelt officially named it the White House.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/hookums on 2025-01-31 04:38:13.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/NateNate60 on 2025-01-31 04:17:06.

Original Title: TIL when East Germany reunified with West Germany in 1990, the German government withdrew East Germany banknotes from circulation, but instead of burning them, they let them rot in a concrete bunker until two people broke in and stole a large quantity of notes in 2001. Then what was left was burned.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TriviaDuchess on 2025-01-31 03:40:27.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/SappyGilmore on 2025-01-31 03:25:48.

Original Title: TIL Chef Boyardee's canned Ravioli kept WWII soldiers fed and he became the largest supplier of rations during the war. When American soldiers started heading to Europe to fight, Hector Boiardi and brothers Paul and Mario decided to keep the factory open 24/7 in order to produce enough meals

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Reformed_Lothario on 2025-01-31 00:54:06.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Money-Ad7257 on 2025-01-31 00:32:25.

Original Title: TIL that the first two hockey goalies to wear a mask did so in 1899. They used baseball catcher's masks almost 60 years before Jacques Plante became the first to regularly use a mask in the NHL in 1959.

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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Headpuncher on 2025-01-30 22:24:27.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Malthesse on 2025-01-30 22:15:24.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/dwartbg9 on 2025-01-30 22:13:01.
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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Giff95 on 2025-01-30 21:37:29.
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