r/todayilearned • u/NiceTraining7671 • 4h ago
TIL that male Ohio residents have to pay out-of-state tuition fees at Ohio universities if they aren’t registered with Selective Service, and some states like Alabama and Tennessee won’t admit men into state colleges at all if they haven’t registered.
r/todayilearned • u/ubcstaffer123 • 10h ago
TIL In Germany a driver's license costs over $2000 after a minimum of 25-45 hours of professional instruction plus 12 hours of theory
german-way.comr/todayilearned • u/newleafkratom • 9h ago
TIL that life expectancy at birth probably averaged only about 10 years for most of human history
r/todayilearned • u/Scruffy_Nerf_Hoarder • 15h ago
TIL that Abraham Lincoln was so convinced that he was going to lose the election of 1864 that he asked Frederick Douglass to lead scouts into the South to free as many slaves as possible before the new president took office.
r/todayilearned • u/IllustriousDudeIDK • 12h ago
TIL, at first, Andrew Johnson wanted the Confederate leadership to be tried for treason, but Ulysses S. Grant threatened to resign and Johnson backed down.
r/todayilearned • u/25inbone • 6h ago
TIL there’s an abandoned Six Flags in New Orleans that was shut down after heavy damage from Katrina. It’s been used for various films such as Percy Jackson, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and Jurassic World.
r/todayilearned • u/Fluffy_WAR_Bunny • 8h ago
TIL During the opening Blitzkrieg of WW2, that while the German Army possessed motorized vehicles and an impressive tank strategy, the majority of her forces relied on horse-drawn transport and supply
r/todayilearned • u/QuintenMc • 16h ago
TIL that among the top 50 drunkest counties in America, 41 are in Wisconsin
bringmethenews.comr/todayilearned • u/metapolitical_psycho • 3h ago
TIL that in 1932, Fritz Gerlich, a German journalist, made fun of Hitler’s bigotry by publishing a satire article “proving” that Hitler was Mongolian. Later, Gerlich was taken to Dachau and murdered.
r/todayilearned • u/bloob_appropriate123 • 20h ago
TIL that Mariah Carey bought Marilyn Monroe's childhood piano for $662500 in 1999. When Marilyn's mother was institutionalized, Marilyn was sent to an orphanage and the piano was sold. It would take years of searching for Marilyn to find the piano and buy it back. Mariah wants it to go to a museum.
r/todayilearned • u/jatfield • 8h ago
TIL Throughout recorded history, a wild orca has never killed a human, even though they are capable of ending even a greath white shark. Captive orcas have however have killed 4 people, out of which 3 were done by the same specimen.
r/todayilearned • u/JoeFalchetto • 9h ago
TIL that in 1967 a referendum was held in Gibraltar asking citizens to decide whether to pass under Spanish sovereignty; 2 people out of 12,233 voted yes
r/todayilearned • u/SlothSpeed • 7h ago
TIL Robert A. Wardhaugh, a Canadian historian is known as host of the longest uninterrupted Dungeons & Dragons campaign; going on for 42 years. "Perhaps 3 weeks has been the longest we've ever gone without a session".
en.wikipedia.orgr/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 15h ago
TIL according to US Census data, the state of New York in 2023 had both: the largest population decline in pure numbers (almost 102,000 residents) and the highest rate of population decline (0.5%) among all 50 states.
r/todayilearned • u/mankls3 • 22h ago
TIL the man who killed Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip, was only 19 and also killed Franz Ferdinand's wife Sophie. This occurred when their convertible unexpectedly stopped 5 feet in front of the assasin.
r/todayilearned • u/Sal21G • 1d ago
TIL Rachel McAdams who plays 17 year old Regina George was 25 years old at the time. Her mother on film Amy Poehler was was only 8 years older at 33.
r/todayilearned • u/FortuneQuarrel • 6h ago
TIL in 1954 a Hurricane hit Canada at a category 1 despite traveling all the way inland from the Carolinas. It killed 81 people in the Toronto area, 95 in the US, and 469 in Haiti.
r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 1d ago
TIL a 22-year-old high school JV girls basketball coach in Virginia lost her job after she played in a game by posing as a 13-year-old on the team who was out of town. Upon being reported, the team forfeited the game and the players (both JV & varsity) voted to cancel the rest of their seasons.
r/todayilearned • u/UndyingCorn • 1d ago
TIL Not only did the YMCA use to offer dormitory housing at most of it's US locations, it boasted over 100,000 rooms in the 1940's. This was more than any hotel chain at the time.
r/todayilearned • u/Zaorish9 • 1d ago
TIL that George Rose, winner of 7 Tony Awards, was tortured and murdered by his adopted son and his family, and buried in an unmarked grave.
r/todayilearned • u/Distinct-Exercise417 • 1h ago
TIL that Gregor Mendel (famous for his pea plant experiment in genetics) was taught physics and astronomy by Christian Doppler, who the Doppler effect in weather is named after, and Mendel founded the Austrian Meteorological Society.
doi.orgr/todayilearned • u/VegemiteSucks • 21h ago
TIL of the Juukan Gorge in Western Australia. It is known primarily for a cave that was the only inland site in Australia with evidence of continuous human occupation for over 46,000 years, including through the last Ice Age. The cave was permanently destroyed by mining company Rio Tinto in May 2020
r/todayilearned • u/Coffee_Lipsticks • 18h ago
TIL Tiny crystals within the ear's jelly-like membrane help maintain balance. If the ear is damaged, these crystals can shift to another part of the ear, causing dizziness and imbalance.
r/todayilearned • u/CookieMoon11 • 4h ago