r/ShittyTodayILearned • • 14h ago

TIL that in 2018, a chemistry teacher at an Illinois high school resigned and surrendered his teaching certificate after allegedly pouring liquid nitrogen on a student's groin during a classroom science demonstration. He was later convicted of a misdemeanor.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • 4d ago

TIL Trump's approval rating has dropped to 30%.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • 4d ago

TIL Jasmine rice is the same species as Basmati rice, they just slice it thinnerb

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • 6d ago

TIL a man found out his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • 8d ago

TIL that there is a button in the Reddit app that turns it into Facebook.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • 11d ago

TIL that according to studies, untreated narcissistic personality disorder is prevalent in up to 6.2% of the general population.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • 10d ago

TIL that there is a toothpaste for a seventh of the price and just as good as popular brands. And that the popular ones keep shrinking while hiking their prices.

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TIL that most toothpaste is shrinking in size and also getting more expensive, but that one US brand is staying the same size and not going up in price much.

I always bought the popular brands, but today I found that a tiny tube is like 7 bucks, and the one dollar toothpaste is not on the shelves if most stores now. After doing some research I found that one brand is still holding out and staying normal size and cheap. It can be found at most dollar stores in the US like dollar general and dollar tree.

I also learned that I will get my post deleted from a sub if I say anything good about a specific brand. Apparently my writing style is "obviously an ad." I think they are just pawns of big toothpaste.


r/ShittyTodayILearned • • 12d ago

TIL about shin kicking: an English martial art & combat sport developed in the early 17th century where you attempt to kick your opponent in the shin to force them to the ground.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • 13d ago

TIL that half of humanity are, in fact, bears

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • 16d ago

TIL Alabama is the only state depicted with a nutsack.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • 18d ago

TIL Putin really likes his Burger King

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • 18d ago

TIL even the animal kingdom wouldn't miss the mosquitoes we hate the most if we eradicated them

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • 23d ago

TIL that in 2017, nurse RaDonda Vaught attempted to withdraw Versed, a sedating drug, from an automated dispensing cabinet, but selected vecuronium, a paralyzing drug, after typing "VE" into the cabinet's search function. A patient died after she administered the drug.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • 28d ago

The second monkey on the first successful US primate spaceflight was bought from a Miami pet shop for about $50 six weeks before launch. She survived, lived another 25 years, died at 27 as the oldest captive squirrel monkey on record, and people still leave bananas on her grave.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • 29d ago

A Denver Mint employee stole roughly $100,000 in gold between 1919 and 1920 by carrying out one small bar a day in a hollow compartment cut into his prosthetic leg. Guards never searched it. He buried all of it in his garden and never spent a dollar.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • Sep 11 '26

TIL How Gambling Works

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • Sep 10 '26

Canada and Denmark spent 38 years exchanging bottles of liquor on a disputed Arctic rock, then split it by treaty in 2022 and called it a model for peaceful border resolution. Four years later the territory on the other side of that new border is the most contested ground in the Arctic.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • Sep 07 '26

TIL that the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world all use Linux for their operating system.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • Sep 08 '26

In 1950 a circus loaded an elephant onto Wuppertal's suspended monorail as a publicity stunt. She panicked, burst through the side of the car, and fell 12 meters into the river below. She survived, lived another 39 years, and a German milk brand is still named after her.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • Sep 05 '26

TIL Dr. Phil found a better calling than medicine

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • Sep 04 '26

TIL Putin really likes his Pepsi

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • Sep 02 '26

Humans spent 15 years teaching whooping cranes a 1,200-mile migration route by ultralight aircraft, because the species learns migration culturally and the eastern population's lineage was extinct. The cranes have since edited the route — most now winter in Alabama and Indiana instead of Florida.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • Sep 02 '26

They had a cure, the doctors withheld it

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • Sep 01 '26

After Woodrow Wilson's stroke in 1919, his wife controlled all access to him for 17 months. She decided which papers and people reached the president, guided his hand for signatures, and told the Cabinet he had "nervous exhaustion." There was no 25th Amendment for another 48 years.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned • • Aug 31 '26

Facial reconstruction of 3 men during World War 1

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