61TIL how to block all posts containing the words Trump or Vance. c/todayilearned · by Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world · 1y · 40 comments
52til - hexagons are the basis of the human visual system and the brain’s navigation system sciencedirect.comc/todayilearned · by originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · 1y · 16 comments
10[Meta] Any reason to have this community when there is !til@lemmy.world? c/todayilearned · by Blaze@sopuli.xyz · 1y · 1 comments
60TIL: The Canadian shield is in fact not an item but a region in Canada that is mostly rock en.wikipedia.orgc/todayilearned · by atro_city@fedia.io · 1y · 6 comments
89TIL about the Guarana plant, which looks like a cluster of eyes when ripe. This is fitting because it's full of caffeine. en.wikipedia.orgc/todayilearned · by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 1y · 29 comments
31TIL that in 1956 during the Olympic torch relay, a veterinary student staged a protest and made a fake flame by lighting a pair of underpants on fire in a can and handing it over to the next runner web.archive.orgc/todayilearned · by stoy@lemmy.zip · 2y · 4 comments
-5[TIL] Soil did not exist before Cenozoic period (the period since the Dinosaur mass extinction event) en.m.wikipedia.orgc/todayilearned · by ccunning@lemmy.world · 2y · 10 comments
77TIL there's a company in Indiana that makes custom vinyl records for bands that contain things like liquid and sand (and even weirder stuff) inside two sides of a transparent playable 33 1/3 disc. romanusrecords.comc/todayilearned · by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 2y · 13 comments
44TIL the S.S. Minnow had an eighth passenger. c/todayilearned · by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 2y · 9 comments
51TIL people used to clean their clothes with gasoline as a form of 'dry cleaning.' And yes, lots of people died. youtube.comc/todayilearned · by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 2y · 8 comments
62TIL Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO carved the world's largest ruby into the shape of a turd. greyartmuseum.nyu.educ/todayilearned · by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 2y · 2 comments
34TIL in 2023, Israel announced an amazing archaeological discovery, only to announce a few days later that it was created by a scholar showing students what it would have looked like if it existed. apnews.comc/todayilearned · by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 2y · 3 comments
31TIL about Crabbie, the world's largest (fake) horseshoe crab. It has a very weird history. atlasobscura.comc/todayilearned · by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 2y · 2 comments
79For centuries, the only way to get purple dye in Europe was by harvesting tens of thousands of murex snails from the ocean. TIL the Mayans discovered this independently mayaincaaztec.comc/todayilearned · by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 2y · 4 comments
80TIL a genus of vine named boquila is the only type of plant that can mimic its host organism regardless of the species of host (one vine can mimic multiple hosts) and no one knows how it does it en.wikipedia.orgc/todayilearned · by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 2y · 9 comments
-9TIL larry davids annual masturbation record c/todayilearned · by originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · 2y · 2 comments
17TIL the company Identity Digital owned about 30% of all generally-available TLDs en.m.wikipedia.orgc/todayilearned · by callmepk@lemmy.world · 2y · 3 comments
44TIL Not only did Marvel Comics do radio drama adaptations of early Fantastic Four comics in 1975, The Human Torch was played by a young Bill Murray! archive.orgc/todayilearned · by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 2y · 0 comments
66Ballistics evidence not reliable nor based on science, Maryland Supreme Court says wusa9.comc/todayilearned · by MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com · 2y · 11 comments
