Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Flubadubadubadub on 2025-07-20 01:41:05+00:00.

Original Title: TIL That in 1981 the BBC as part of it's 'Computer Literacy Project' launched the BBC Micro, within 3 years almost every school in the UK had at least one unit and it was a major contributor to the development of computer awareness and skills across the UK.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Successful_Wafer3099 on 2025-07-20 01:31:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/idiot_505 on 2025-07-19 22:39:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NewlyDiscoverdMe on 2025-07-20 00:43:06+00:00.

Original Title: TIL That A 26-year-old man in Peru was caught carrying an 800-year-old mummy in a food delivery cooler bag. The man, identified as Julio Cesar Bermejo, referred to the mummy as his "spiritual girlfriend"

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MeatUnusual2098 on 2025-07-20 00:39:53+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Bob Anderson, the legendary swordmaster who trained Viggo Mortensen for his role as Aragorn, also stepped into the Darth Vader suit to perform the lightsaber duels in "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi".

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/robaato72 on 2025-07-20 00:01:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/andrewscool101 on 2025-07-19 21:50:45+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SuvenPan on 2025-07-19 21:21:28+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Narender Yadav an Indian went to Everest where he claimed to have summitted the mountain but discrepancies were noticed which indicated he had faked the summit. He got a ban from the mountain for six years. He returned the day after his ban expired and reached the summit with ample proof.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/starberry101 on 2025-07-19 20:06:59+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/reallifepixel on 2025-07-19 20:43:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/One_Needleworker5218 on 2025-07-19 20:17:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2025-07-19 19:54:31+00:00.

Original Title: TIL One of Niccolo Machiavelli's many talents was improvised song writing: his friends would try to challenge his rhyming skills by opening a random page of any random Latin poet and asking him to translate and turn into into a song, which he was able to do on the spot while playing the lira

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Future_Usual_8698 on 2025-07-19 19:03:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NewlyDiscoverdMe on 2025-07-19 19:16:19+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/isUKexactlyTsameasUS on 2025-07-19 13:32:23+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MeatUnusual2098 on 2025-07-19 18:01:37+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1994, Pearl Jam canceled their summer tour after discovering Ticketmaster was adding unfair service charges. In protest, they began building their own venues in rural areas and sold tickets directly to fans to keep prices low and avoid corporate influence.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TheHabro on 2025-07-19 16:47:46+00:00.

Original Title: Til Sea otters influence the amount of C02 in the atmosphere by controlling population of sea urchins that in turn eat kelp. Annually, kelp forests store an equivalent of yearly emission of 4 million passenger cards.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MrVernonDursley on 2025-07-19 16:14:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/fearlessphosgene on 2025-07-19 15:35:14+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of William Mullens, who led the only intact unit of the 51st Division to escape France in June 1940. He led about 160 men to the beach, under heavy fire for 6 miles, and on the way captured a village with only revolvers. The Germans assumed it was a strong counterattack and fled the village.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-07-19 14:29:25+00:00.

Original Title: TIL $157K worth of stolen Magic: the Gathering and Dungeon & Dragons gaming cards were recovered after they were turned in by the party who bought them from the thieves for $4K. The cards had been stolen at Gen Con 2023 when 2 men simply walked out with a pallet that had 115 boxes of the cards on it

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/_Thermalflask on 2025-07-19 13:08:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-07-19 14:28:57+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in 2022 a chess-playing robot broke the finger of its 7-year-old opponent after the boy didn't give it enough time to respond & attempted to move again. The robot held his finger in place for 15 seconds before bystanders were able to pry it free. The boy then played with his finger in a cast.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Rufusisking on 2025-07-19 13:11:20+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Lizm3 on 2025-07-19 10:52:37+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/metapolitical_psycho on 2025-07-19 10:36:44+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1691, a man was called to testify as a witness to robbery and told the court that God turned him into a werewolf so he could raid Hell and fight the demons there. The judges took his claim seriously and banished him from Livonia for sorcery.

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