TIL a finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into transferring $25 million to scammers after joining a video conference call where every single other participant—including the company's CFO and several of his recognized coworkers—was an AI-generated deepfake. (cnn.com)

14.1k · submitted 5 hours ago by Neebez to r/todayilearned

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TIL that in 2022, a 7-year-old boy, his brother, and their cousin discovered a rare juvenile T. rex fossil in North Dakota. Dubbed "Teen Rex," it is one of only four juvenile T. rex fossils ever found. (cbsnews.com)

4003 · submitted 8 hours ago by QueenOfNZ to r/todayilearned

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TIL Ambergris Was an Ice Cream Flavor in the 17th Century (tastingtable.com)

1253 · submitted 2 hours ago by TheVentiLebowski to r/todayilearned

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TIL in crowd wisdom, the 'surprisingly popular' answer can overcome ignorance of the masses (princeton.edu)

984 · submitted 2 hours ago by beasterne7 to r/todayilearned

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TIL that in 2020, Justin Montney lost his fiancée, Alexis-Athena Wyatt, in a car crash. When he attempted to get a refund from the photography company he had hired for their wedding, they not only refused but released a statement mocking him. (people.com)

23.7k · submitted 17 hours ago by Sebastianlim to r/todayilearned

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TIL in Medieval England, a form of football (also called mob football) was played between neighbouring villages/towns. Team sizes were unlimited. The teams had to move an item (for example an animal's bladder) to a particular geographical point, such as their opponents' church. (en.wikipedia.org)

1009 · submitted 5 hours ago by Double-decker_trams to r/todayilearned

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TIL about the “blob” slime mould. It has almost 720 sexes, can heal itself, and has no brain, but is able to transmit knowledge if merged with another blob. (abc.net.au)

13.1k · submitted 18 hours ago by RainyWanderlust to r/todayilearned

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TIL that the ‘high’ from gambling isn’t connected to winning - the dopamine rush peaks at exactly 50:50 probability. Gamblers get a rush when the roulette wheel is spinning but their pleasure is largely unaffected whether they win or lose. (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

7466 · submitted 18 hours ago by thebigchil73 to r/todayilearned

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TIL in 1948, when Satchel Paige was finally signed to pitch in the Major Leagues, The Sporting News named him Rookie of the Year—at (at least) 42 years old. (mlb.com)

335 · submitted 3 hours ago by RedditIsAGranfaloon to r/todayilearned

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TIL Sea Otter Skeletons Can Turn Purple If They Eat Enough Purple Sea Urchins (popsci.com)

692 · submitted 7 hours ago by gelatomancer to r/todayilearned

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TIL member of the Donner Party, Lewis Keseberg, was accused of killing and consuming multiple, including children, by the rescue party. He was found with the corpse of Tamsen Donner, and had hidden her remaining money. He later sued for defamation, insisting he only ate those who died of exposure. (en.wikipedia.org)

7844 · submitted 22 hours ago by kevlarbuns to r/todayilearned

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TIL that Checkers has been a solved game for almost 20 years. Optimal play is unbeatable, and two opponents playing optimally always reach a stalemate. (researchgate.net)

31.2k · submitted 1 day ago by PeasantLich to r/todayilearned

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TIL that before the Black Death in Europe, there was the Plague of Justinian. The plague weakened the Byzantine Empire's economy and caused the empire's decline. (en.wikipedia.org)

1298 · submitted 16 hours ago by Recent_Flounder6011 to r/todayilearned

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TIL Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has a well-known game-day superstition where he wears the same pair of red underwear for every game of his NFL career. (espn.com)

2265 · submitted 20 hours ago by Skaterose6 to r/todayilearned

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TIL that the pink plastic flamingo is the official bird of Madison Wisconsin. (en.wikipedia.org)

Hidden · submitted 14 minutes ago by OccludedFug to r/todayilearned

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TIL that ancient Greek and Latin texts were often written without spaces between words. This style of writing, known as scriptio continua, meant that a sentence could look likeone long stringofletters, and readers had to figure out where each word began and ended. (en.wikipedia.org)

3274 · submitted 1 day ago by an_aficionado to r/todayilearned

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TIL that the Moon moves about 3.8 centimetres farther away from Earth every year. (science.nasa.gov)

116 · submitted 7 hours ago by LakeM0bius_hunter to r/todayilearned

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TIL that in WW2, Poland declared war on Japan. Japan rejected there declaration of war. Quote: “We do not accept Poland’s challenge. The Poles, fighting for their freedom, only declared war on us under pressure from the United Kingdom.”A curious case: Poland only declared war on one country in WWII; (outono.net)

6270 · submitted 1 day ago by leafpool2014 to r/todayilearned

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TIL After the "Fight Of The Century" Muhammad Ali refused to admit defeat and sought to define the outcome in the publics mind as a "White Man's Decision". Ali later on defeated Frazier in their third and final bout at the Thrilla in Manilia in 1975 (en.wikipedia.org)

4932 · submitted 1 day ago by finza_prey to r/todayilearned

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TIL: Roosevelt is on the dime because he founded the March of Dimes foundation for polio research (en.wikipedia.org)

10.5k · submitted 1 day ago by Keobooks to r/todayilearned

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TIL that King George III originally planned to abdicate the throne in favor of his eldest son - the future King George IV - and exile himself to Hanover in March 1783 after Great Britain lost the American colonies in the Revolutionary War. However, he remained on the throne until his death in 1820. (thecrownchronicles.co.uk)

2793 · submitted 1 day ago by Obversa 5 to r/todayilearned

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TIL the oldest surviving liquid wine in the world was discovered in a first-century Roman glass urn containing intact wine. The urn was discovered in 2019 in Spain. (en.wikipedia.org)

1815 · submitted 1 day ago by AetheriaNox to r/todayilearned

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TIL Director Doris Wishman's film Nude on the Moon was banned in New York after the New York State Censorship Board determined that movies about nudist colonies on earth were permissible, but nudist colonies on the moon were not. (en.wikipedia.org)

1497 · submitted 1 day ago by MajesticBread9147 to r/todayilearned

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TIL of The Law School of Berytus (also known as the law school of Beirut), a center for the study of Roman law in classical antiquity. It flourished under the patronage of the Roman emperors and functioned as the Roman Empire's center of jurisprudence until its destruction in AD 551. (en.wikipedia.org)

250 · submitted 18 hours ago by TapFar687 to r/todayilearned

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TIL that the Battle of Big Dry Wash was the last major battle of the Apache War and 4 soldiers earned the Medal of Honor as a result of their actions during the battle. (en.wikipedia.org)

209 · submitted 17 hours ago by DrakeSavory to r/todayilearned

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