Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/thousandthisland on 2024-09-16 17:46:30+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Pfeffer_Prinz on 2024-09-16 17:43:58+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Mt. Vesuvius is still active, having had 4-6 relatively severe eruptions every century for the past 500 years (last one in 1944). It's also the world's most densely populated volcanic region, with 3 million people living nearby.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/HumanNutrStudent on 2024-09-16 17:15:00+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Montgomery's memoirs criticised many of his wartime comrades harshly, including Eisenhower. After publishing it, he had to apologize in a radio broadcast to avoid a lawsuit. He was also stripped of his honorary citizenship of Alabama, and was challenged to a duel by an Italian lawyer.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ExtremeAstronomer852 on 2024-09-16 16:25:44+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/wendycomet on 2024-09-16 16:14:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/jenesuispashariselon on 2024-09-16 14:54:34+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Henryk Siwiak was killed on a street of Brooklyn shortly before midnight. He is the only victim on the list of murders in New York on September 11, 2001, since the city does not include the deaths from the 9/11 attacks in its official crime statistics. His murder has never been solved.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/teruteru-fan-sam on 2024-09-16 15:11:33+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Charmin_Mao on 2024-09-16 14:32:03+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Dromeoraptor on 2024-09-16 14:13:30+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that there are multiple species of cotton. The most common species today came from Central America, Mexico, and the Carribean, with the other three commercially grown species from are from South America; South Asia; and Africa and Arabia. There are even Australian species of wild cotton.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/sunlightFTW on 2024-09-16 14:02:36+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Dog_Weasley on 2024-09-16 12:43:30+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BezugssystemCH1903 on 2024-09-16 12:17:33+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the twin towns of Laufenburg, split by the High Rhine, built a bridge in 2004. Different sea level references—Mediterranean for Switzerland, North Sea for Germany—led to a 270 mm difference, which a sign error doubled to 540 mm in the middle of the bridge.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/PillowManExtreme on 2024-09-16 09:56:21+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the longest straight border in Australia, the WA/SA-NT border, isn’t straight at all. It moves 127 metres from the 129° E parallel halfway. 40yrs after two marked obelisks were placed on other sides of the continent, it was realised one was entirely in the wrong place—but kept the border anyway.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/knakworst36 on 2024-09-16 10:27:36+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Johannes_P on 2024-09-16 11:20:49+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the Bazacle Milling Company was a joint-stock company of watermills founded in Toulouse, France. Starting from the 14th century, shares of the capital were freely bought and sold, and dividends were paid in flour until 1840. The company was nationalised in 1946

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/St_Gregory_Nazianzus on 2024-09-16 07:41:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CreditorOP on 2024-09-16 07:40:37+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Dreammy_Sassy on 2024-09-16 06:33:10+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Texas didn’t have safety regulations on natural gas until after a school blew up and killed hundreds of children. Nobody was held accountable, but they passed strict regulations afterwards. It was so bad that even Hitler sent a letter of condolence.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WhatsUpLabradog on 2024-09-16 02:49:00+00:00.

Original Title: TIL That a medieval list of appropriate dog names, compiled around 1460 and named "The Names of All Manner of Hounds", contained fan favorites such as: Nosewise, Hosewife, Spowse, Baby, Childe, Mistirman, Go-bifore, Go-byhynde, Havegoodday, Bere-awey, Salmon, Dragon, Flame and... Nameles!

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/mankls3 on 2024-09-16 03:52:57+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Jim Carey spoke to someone who trained operatives at the CIA who was an expert on resisting torture since Carey was forced to sit in makeup chairs for hours everyday while they applied the Grinch makeup and prosthetics on him for the movie.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sexy_BabyLOve003 on 2024-09-16 02:08:25+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Subutai also known as 'The Demon Dog of war' A Monggol general and the primary military strategist of Genghis Khan, regarded by many as the single greatest military commander in history, instrumental in the conquests of Genghis and Ögedei Khan.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ubcstaffer123 on 2024-09-16 02:29:25+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/OperationSuch5054 on 2024-09-15 20:14:24+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the fastest spinning celestial object in the universe is a Neutron star called PSR J1748-2446. It rotates 716 times every second and it's equator moves at about 25% the speed of light. It is also has a magnetic field a trillion times stronger than the Sun’s.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/HumanNutrStudent on 2024-09-16 02:04:21+00:00.

Original Title: TIL physicist Ludwig Boltzmann also taught philosophy and his lectures on the subject became so popular that the Austrian Emperor invited him for a reception. He suffered from bipolar disorder and died by suicide at 62. His tombstone bears the inscription of his own entropy formula: S = k*log W.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Tenderr_Serrrenadee on 2024-09-15 19:30:05+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Henrietta Wood who was enslaved in the American South until her owner, Jane Cirode, took her to Ohio in 1844. After being re-enslaved in 1853, Wood successfully sued her captor, Zebulon Ward, in 1869 and was awarded $2,500 – the largest slavery restitution in U. S. history.