Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/santropedro on 2024-01-18 11:56:55+00:00.

Original Title: TIL for American food labeling, 1 fl oz=30 ml EXACTLY, and the related units cup=240ml, teaspoon=5ml, tablespoon=15ml, are also perfectly round numbers in metric. "Weight" ounces, though, are exactly 28g.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ok-Indication-5121 on 2024-01-18 06:44:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/garamond89 on 2024-01-18 05:25:08+00:00.

Original Title: TIL despite committing suicide in 1945, Adolf Hitler was not issued a death certificate until 1956, after a lengthy investigation to collect testimony from 42 witnesses. Hitler's death was entered as an assumption of death based on this testimony.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SappyGilmore on 2024-01-18 08:15:59+00:00.

Original Title: TIL until 2001 workers at Disneyland had to wear "communal underwear" while in character because normal undies would bunch up and become visible. After several outbreaks of pubic lice, the performers got the Teamsters Union involved and Disney finally agreed to employees wearing their own underpants

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Party_Pangolin on 2024-01-18 07:58:49+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SpatulaFlip on 2024-01-18 07:32:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/-Appleaday- on 2024-01-18 04:21:24+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that lots of famous artists have died in plane crashes, including Glenn Miller when his military plane fell from the sky, Buddy Holly while on an airplane, Patsy Cline who's manager flew in bad weather and John Denver who piloted a home-built aircraft he had recently purchased.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/waitingforthesun92 on 2024-01-18 04:19:46+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Frank Zappa intended his 1982 song “Valley Girl” to be a mocking satire of California’s teen culture, but ironically, the song’s success instead popularized the “valley girl” accent nationwide. So much so, that a film titled “Valley Girl” was released a year later.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ethereal3xp on 2024-01-18 03:38:19+00:00.

Original Title: TIL January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. Prior to this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other. A new communications protocol was established called Transfer Control Protocol/Internetwork Protocol (TCP/IP).

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GetYerHandOffMyPenis on 2024-01-18 03:25:23+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Grumplogic on 2024-01-17 17:39:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Apeshaft on 2024-01-17 17:38:44+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/lovelycontributer on 2024-01-17 16:58:50+00:00.

Original Title: Today I Learned that millennial dads are spending 3 times as much times with their kids than their fathers spent with them. Back in 1982 43% of fathers admitted they'd never changed a diaper. Today that number is down to about 3%.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Chemical-Elk-1299 on 2024-01-17 16:50:25+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of George Pickering, who in 2014 held a team of doctors hostage to save the life of his son, declared brain dead after a stroke. He forced them at gunpoint to keep his son on life support during a 3 hour standoff with police, until he felt his son squeeze his hand.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/fhkbkhgb on 2024-01-17 16:11:59+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/laterdude on 2024-01-17 14:56:18+00:00.

Original Title: TIL there was a craze amongst American foodies for guinea pigs. At one company in Connecticut, imports nearly doubled since 2008 — from 600 guinea pigs per year then to more than 1,000 in 2013. The animals, called cuyes in Spanish, are usually cooked whole, often grilled, sometimes deep fried.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/c_h_a_r_ on 2024-01-17 13:58:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GarysCrispLettuce on 2024-01-17 12:40:16+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the psychiatrist Henry Cotton would sometimes extract all of a patient's teeth as he believed infected teeth to be the cause of psychiatric disorders. If that didn't work, he'd remove testicles, ovaries, gall bladders, stomachs, spleens, cervixes and colons.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ohdearitsrichardiii on 2024-01-17 10:02:09+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Abdullah733 on 2024-01-17 06:34:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CaptainFiasco on 2024-01-17 04:36:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/poseidonofmyapt on 2024-01-17 04:08:21+00:00.

Original Title: TIL The first man to finish the 1904 Olympic marathon rode in a car half the race. The actual winner had to be carried across the finish line after his coaches gave him a mix of brandy, eggs and strychnine. 4th place stole 2 peaches from a spectator, ate rotten apples from an orchard and took a nap.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Freezair on 2024-01-17 04:05:11+00:00.

Original Title: TIL The Simpsons' show-within-a-show, "The Itchy and Scratchy Show", isn't actually based on Tom and Jerry. It's based on a more obscure cartoon called "Herman and Katnip," which was notorious for being violent and mean-spirited.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/HumungousDickosaurus on 2024-01-17 03:39:29+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/xxwarlorddarkdoomxx on 2024-01-17 03:35:01+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the Eastern Front alone is enough to make WWII one of the, if not the single deadliest war of all time. Of the approximately 80 million deaths caused by WWII, about 40 million were on the eastern front.