Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/gaypenisdicksucker69 on 2025-07-11 01:00:20+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/zahrul3 on 2025-07-11 12:58:45+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/stealthynotion on 2025-07-11 12:53:19+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Due-Cryptographer913 on 2025-07-11 20:43:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/JoeyZasaa on 2025-07-11 04:03:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MrMojoFomo on 2025-07-11 20:08:21+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of the bliss point; a point where, in processed foods, the levels of salt, sugar, and fat cause people to feel the food is "just right." Bliss point foods commonly produce cravings, and can bypass the body's satiety signals and lead to overeating

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/alphabeticdisorder on 2025-07-11 18:42:54+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DangerNoodle1993 on 2025-07-11 18:18:50+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the city of Melbourne in Australia was briefly known as Batmania in 1835, named after one of its founders, John Batman. It was officially renamed Melbourne in 1837 after the British Prime Minister at the time, Lord Melbourne.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/DangerNoodle1993 on 2025-07-11 18:10:00+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the invention of the bicycle was sparked by the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora. The resulting Year Without a Summer caused crop failures and horse die-offs, which pushed Karl Drais to create the first bicycle as an alternative to horse travel.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ModenaR on 2025-07-11 16:51:30+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/RaccoonCityTacos on 2025-07-11 16:39:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/VanGoghEnjoyer on 2025-07-11 01:21:43+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1870, Thomas Boulton and Frederick Park, were arrested after being found in public dressed as women, put on trial for conspiracy to commit sodomy, and acquitted because prosecutors couldn’t prove any sexual activity. The trial was widely discussed in the press.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/TooOldToBePunk on 2025-07-11 01:07:28+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AlabamaHotcakes on 2025-07-10 23:53:10+00:00.

Original Title: TIL after the Crimean War, Queen Victoria praised soldiers’ facial hair as the mark of "real fighting men". Mustaches became mandatory until 1916, mainly because gas masks required a proper seal, prompting the army to drop the almost 60 year old rule and made them optional.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BoazCorey on 2025-07-11 07:07:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Z3temis on 2025-07-11 15:44:18+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AlabamaHotcakes on 2025-07-11 03:49:46+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the Lombard queen Rosamund. Taken as a prisoner after her father, last king of the Gepids, lost a war to the Lombardic king Alboin who took her as his wife. He was notably cruel to her, making her drink from her fathers skull at a banquet and she later instigated his assassination.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/OccamsDragon on 2025-07-12 06:33:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AlabamaHotcakes on 2025-07-11 03:33:28+00:00.

Original Title: TIL during Leon Trotskys assisination he fought back fiercely, breaking the assasins hand. But was struck in the head with an ice axe. When guards rushed in, they nearly killed the assasin, but Trotsky insisted he be interrogated. Despite emergency surgery, Trotsky died the next day from blood loss.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Vegetable-Orange-965 on 2025-07-11 03:26:25+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that medical students dissected the donated body of a 78-year-old man only to discover that he had three penises. The two extra penises were small, nonfunctional, and completely concealed within his scrotum, so it’s possible he lived his entire life without knowing his anatomy was different.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Alternative-Cake-833 on 2025-07-11 01:47:29+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BaconReceptacle on 2025-07-10 17:55:18+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/stopitsgingertime on 2025-07-10 17:37:45+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Fordlândia, Henry Ford's failed rubber utopia in the Amazon jungle. In the 1920s, the colony was home to hundreds of workers living a mandatory alcohol-free "healthy lifestyle," including square-dances, poetry readings, and golf, but ended up totally abandoned after riots and crop failure.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BezugssystemCH1903 on 2025-07-11 08:48:23+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the Corona Muralis was a golden battlement-shaped crown awarded to the first Roman soldier or centurion who climbed the wall of a besieged city and to successfully place the standard of the attacking army upon it.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CybergothiChe on 2025-07-11 06:04:24+00:00.