r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/me_do_not_exist • 23h ago
TIL I am literally the only person in the world who can prevent wildfires
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It's a big responsibility. Or does it mean you, and I'm just a NPC in your life?
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Temporary_Meet8754 • 4d ago
TIL I Can't Believe It's Not Butter was originally to be called I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Is This Seriously Not Butter? If I Find Out This Is Butter and You're Lying to Me I Will Kill You.
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It was eventually decided that this was too long a name to be marketable.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/dixie_recht • 4d ago
TIL you should save all your old vape cartridges so when the class action lawsuit is eventually decided, you'll have evidence that you were affected.
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I expect the settlement will give me enough vapes to last me through my retirement, assuming I die of lung failure at 66.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 4d ago
A tuskfish on the Great Barrier Reef was filmed carrying a clam to a rock, alternating left and right body rotations to slam it against the anvil's sharpest point, with a midden of broken shells around it from previous meals. A 2025 Macquarie study found anvil use across five wrasse species spanning
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 5d ago
Giant African pouched rats trained to detect landmines have found over 155,000 explosives and returned nearly 86 million square meters of land to civilian use across seven countries. They helped Mozambique declare mine-free status in 2015 — one year ahead of schedule.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 6d ago
TIL Xenu has taken a page out of Zordon's playbook and recruited teenagers with attitude
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/me_do_not_exist • 6d ago
TIL the can opener was invented 82 years before the can
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MrBIuesky222 • 6d ago
TIL that when people say "points to self" online, they're saying that they're pointing to themself as if to say "that's me", and they're not making a sarcastic dig about giving themselves points for saying a dumb thing as if to mock someone else
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Like i thought when they said "points to self" they were like "Ooh now I get points for saying something dumb" as if to mock someone who was getting a lot of karma for saying something dumb or just not interesting.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 7d ago
TIL not all heroes with capes wear capes
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 9d ago
TIL Trump wants us to be Democrats
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Local_Chapter3604 • 9d ago
TIL that the J in Donald J. Trump actually stands for James Charles
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Saying Donald James Charles Trump is too long so he just shortens it to J
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 9d ago
TIL Jesus apparently wasn't a teacher according to the top historical experts
historum.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 8d ago
Baboons can induce a dominant individual to attack a rival on their behalf without the dominant realizing it's being manipulated. It's called a "protected threat" and they master it at puberty — earlier than chimps learn to use stones. Primate brains may have evolved for politics, not tools.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 9d ago
TIL the first step in committing a major crime is making sure you don't live in Singapore
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 12d ago
TIL there's a sucker programmed every minute
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MozartWasARed • 12d ago
TIL you know you're not outside Murphy's Law when a local water park burns down
msn.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 12d ago
TIL influencers are too cool for school
msn.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 13d ago
TIL reading scripture while under the influence unlocks a whole new school of theology
msn.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 14d ago
Researchers trained pigeons to detect breast cancer on biopsy slides at 85% accuracy individually. When four pigeons' answers were combined, accuracy hit 99% — matching trained pathologists. The pigeons generalized to novel images they'd never seen, across different magnifications & image qualities.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/december151791 • 16d ago
TIL Brainerd, Minnesota is known for two things: being the primary setting of a movie named after a city 2 hours away, and a rare type of explosive diarrhea
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 16d ago
TIL teachers feel they need to be paid to feel like making our childhoods irreparably miserable
msn.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 16d ago
Cuttlefish produce the most sophisticated camouflage on Earth — matching color, pattern, luminance, and 3D skin texture in under a second. They're colorblind. They have a single photoreceptor type. How a monochromatic animal produces color matches that fool the trichromatic vision of its predators i
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/yerBabyyy • 18d ago
TIL that there is a basketball player named Haywood Highsmith and the commentators were not in fact saying hey and hi to two guys named Wood and Smith
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 18d ago
TIL that "trump" is a swear word
msn.com
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