Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Soorena on 2025-06-22 02:46:04+00:00.

Original Title: TIL United States, under President Eisenhower, initiated Iran's nuclear program through the Atoms for Peace program. In 1957, the U.S. provided Iran with its first nuclear reactor and nuclear fuel. Later, after 1967, the U.S. also supplied Iran with weapons-grade enriched uranium.

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

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JoeyZasaa on 2025-06-22 05:12:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2025-06-22 09:53:30+00:00.

Original Title: TIL studies of the archives of the "office of the night", a government office tasked with prosecuting homosexuality in Renaissance Florence, reveals that in a city of 40,000 inhabitants a whopping 16,000 men were implicated in sodomy accusations, although only around 3k cases ended up in convictions

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/HOLUPREDICTIONS on 2025-06-22 09:17:10+00:00.

Original Title: TIL an endocrinologist irradiated the testicles of Oregon and Washington prisoners. He gave them $5/mo, and $100 when they had to receive a vasectomy upon conclusion of the trial. The surgeon said it was necessary to "keep from contaminating the general population with radiation-induced mutants"

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NoxiousQueef on 2025-06-21 23:40:58+00:00.

Original Title: TIL While nicknames in English are mostly derived from the beginning of a name (Benjamin to Ben, William to Will), nicknames in Spanish are normally derived from the end (Benjamín to Mín, Ramón to Món, Enedina to Dina).

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/licecrispies on 2025-06-22 02:40:31+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the Doctor's Riot of 1788 in NYC, which left up to 20 dead and was a reaction to physicians and medical students stealing bodies from graves. It forced doctors in the city to go into hiding.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tessaemilybrown on 2025-06-21 21:13:34+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Spiders can fly using electricity in the air (a process called ballooning). They can release silk threads that catch an electric field, which then interacts with the Earth's electric field, providing lift and propulsion. This allows them to travel long distances, even across oceans.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ninesevenecho on 2025-06-21 19:22:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/jwvcjvc8xe72-hfui on 2025-06-21 18:08:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/peter_bolton on 2025-06-21 22:58:29+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Captain Cook's famous exploration ship HMS Endeavour was later purchased by a company and renamed Lord Sandwich, but since another ship already had that name, it had to be renamed to Lord Sandwich 2, which later became a prison ship for England during the American Revolution.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/peter_bolton on 2025-06-22 02:38:26+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the social media service Blue Sky (founded by Jack Dorsey years ago) currently has Lantian "Jay" Gruber as its CEO, and that by coincidence, the name "Lantian" (given to her by her Chinese mother) means "blue sky" in Mandarin Chinese.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Dans-les-bois on 2025-06-22 02:44:12+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/katubug on 2025-06-22 02:31:05+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Tim22Mt on 2025-06-22 01:26:12+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Douglas Bader, a British WWII ace who lost both legs before the war. He flew with prosthetics, scored 22 kills, and became one of Britain’s top pilots. After being captured, the RAF air-dropped him a new prosthetic leg behind enemy lines.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Money_Writer7469 on 2025-06-21 23:47:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Oh_My_Monster on 2025-06-21 23:25:10+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Kishōtenketsu, a 4 act narrative structure very common to East Asia that does not rely on conflict to drive a story but rather has a twist or shift in perspective and a conclusion that may or may not actually "resolve" the twist.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JoeChemoWasTaken on 2025-06-22 00:17:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BunnyBob77 on 2025-06-21 18:00:22+00:00.

Original Title: TIL after Britain's defeat in the American Revolution, King George III seriously considered abdicating the throne and retiring to Germany. He was talked out of it shortly before delivering a speech on abdication.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-06-21 23:29:16+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Marine Duane Dewey was being treated by a navy corpsman in Korea after a grenade exploded at his feet, when another grenade landed near them. Dewey immediately smothered it shouting "Doc, I got it in my hip pocket!" Dewey survived & won the Medal of Honor for saving the corpsman's life & others.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-06-21 23:25:51+00:00.

Original Title: TIL Pete Conrad said "Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me." after stepping onto a landing pad on the moon in order to win a $500 bet he made to prove NASA didn't script it. After stepping on the lunar surface, he said "Oooh, is that soft & queasy."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Serkr2009 on 2025-06-21 22:46:25+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/katxwoods on 2025-06-21 21:58:49+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BluddGorr on 2025-06-21 15:51:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/jtnft on 2025-06-21 14:47:38+00:00.