Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BeekyGardener on 2025-06-23 00:00:26+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the deer around Nara, the ancient early capital of Japan, are sacred in Shintoism for being messengers of the gods. They have been tame for centuries from humans not hunting them. They are popular with guests who buy “deer cookies” to feed them.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Dans-les-bois on 2025-06-22 22:59:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/J0hnEddy on 2025-06-22 22:56:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SocraticTiger on 2025-06-22 19:48:16+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DCFVBTEG on 2025-06-22 22:18:17+00:00.

Original Title: TIL there was a literary subgenre in the 1850s dubbed "Anti-Tom literature" created in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The books would attempt to justify slavery and paint blacks as being content in servitude.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/delano1998 on 2025-06-22 22:06:54+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Napoleon Dynamite actor Efren Ramirez sent a cease and desist letter to his brother Carlos after finding out that he had been impersonating his character Pedro at parties and other events that Efren was too busy to attend, hitting him a 10 million dollar lawsuit had he continued.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/edgeofdawn32 on 2025-06-22 20:54:43+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Hungarians originally wrote their language using a system of runes appearing similar to runes once used in Germanic languages. The runes fell out of use after the Christianization of Hungary under Stephen I but have seen some revival in modern times.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Temnodontosaurus on 2025-06-22 21:56:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Regular_Eggplant_248 on 2025-06-22 21:37:58+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that actor Michael Rapaport publicly feuded with NBA player Kevin Durant on Twitter, leading to a series of heated exchanges and eventually Rapaport exposing private DMs he received from Durant containing threats and homophobic and misogynistic slurs.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Fitz_cuniculus on 2025-06-22 20:47:51+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/teamstep on 2025-06-22 20:03:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/skateboardjim on 2025-06-22 19:54:36+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Murderhands on 2025-06-22 19:19:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/IDoLikeMyShishkebabs on 2025-06-22 19:09:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/centaurquestions on 2025-06-22 18:35:54+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Flubadubadubadub on 2025-06-22 18:28:56+00:00.

Original Title: TIL That in 2009 the BBC introduced a nominally children's TV show call Horrible Histories based on the popular book of the same name. It told irreverent stories from Western History back to the Stone Age. It became a sleeper adult hit and ran for over 70 episodes.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ill_Definition8074 on 2025-06-22 16:21:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Giff95 on 2025-06-22 14:18:10+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Fenceypents on 2025-06-22 14:42:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/pichipichipoco on 2025-06-22 16:36:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/southofakronoh on 2025-06-22 15:19:19+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sound_Aware on 2025-06-22 14:43:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/EconomyPrompt2004 on 2025-06-22 14:01:05+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Cooper's Law. The law states that the maximum number of voice conversations or equivalent data transactions that can be conducted in all of the useful radio spectrum over a given area doubles every 30 months.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ijustwannanap on 2025-06-22 13:05:39+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of David Kelly, a British weapons expert. Two days after being publicly named as the source behind a BBC report questioning the UK government's claim about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, Kelly committed suicide a short walk from his home.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/haloarh on 2025-06-22 12:48:21+00:00.