The 'Today I Learned' Online Community Shares Some Cool And Interesting Facts Which Will Blow Your Mind

We often don't have much time for ourselves in today's fast-paced world. While we rarely forget to nourish our bodies, if we do, we're on the verge of burnout!

We frequently fail to refresh our minds. But the good news is that it's never too late to strengthen that brain muscle!

According to philosophers, facts are opposed to theories and values and must be separated from things, particularly complex objects, complexes, wholes, and relations. They are the subjects of specific mental states and actions, make truth-bearers true, correlate to truths, and are part of the world's furniture.

So, to feed our curious inner child hidden deep beneath first-world troubles, we're about to feast on some 'Today I Learned' bits and pieces of information from the subreddit 'Today I Learned.' For instance, the existence and story of a Titanic survivor who spent six hours waist-deep in frigid water and subsequently won the Wimbledon Men's Doubles in 1920, and the story of a Costa Rican fisherman who became best friends with a crocodile after treating it for a gunshot wound: these are things you don't learn in traditional ways.

Put on your thinking caps, for it's time to broaden your horizons! It's time for another heartfelt presentation of 'Today I Learned,' a list of everything wonderful, interesting, and truly shocking that internet users recently discovered about the world.

1. Pet crocodile.

A local fisherman in Costa Rica nursed a crocodile back to health after it had been shot in the head and released the reptile back to its home. The next day, the man discovered “Pocho” had followed him home and was sleeping on the man’s porch. For 20 years, Pocho became part of the man’s family.

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2. Nepalis building paths in the Norwegian mountains.

Norway hires shepherds from Nepal to build paths in the Norwegian mountains. They have completed over 300 projects, and their pay for one summer equals 30 years of work in Nepal.

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3. Infrastructure helped decrease crime.

Architect Alejandro Echeverri was approached by the mayor of Medellin, one of the most dangerous cities in the world, to revitalize the city. He focused on building in the poorest areas first to bring people and infrastructure into these neighborhoods. Crime dropped substantially.

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4. Survived the Titanic crash and went on to win Wimbledon Men's Doubles.

Richard Norris Williams was a Titanic survivor who spent over six hours waist-deep in freezing water. After his rescue, doctors wanted to amputate both his legs, but he refused and went on to win the Wimbledon Men's Doubles in 1920.

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5. Plant-based plastic alternatives.

Chemists have developed two plant-based plastic alternatives to current fossil fuel-made plastics. Using chemical recycling instead of mechanical recycling, 96% of the initial material can be recovered.

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6. Helen Keller.

Helen Keller was accepted to Harvard in 1900. Mark Twain introduced her to Standard Oil magnate Henry Rogers, who paid for her education. In 1904, she became the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor's degree.

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7. The oldest living elephant.

The oldest living elephant is Vatsala, residing at an elephant camp in a tiger reserve. At 105, she has lived for more than double the average age of an Asian elephant. Though losing her vision to cataracts, she has been able to navigate using her trunk and support from her herd members.

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8. River Phoenix's untimely demise.

River Phoenix passed away right before he was to film his role as the interviewer in Interview with the Vampire. The part was recast with Christian Slater, who donated his earnings to Earth Save and Earth Trust, two of Phoenix's favorite charities.

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9. Wear seat belts.

While only 9.7% of Americans don't wear seat belts, 47% of those who pass away in car crashes were not wearing seat belts.

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10. The dying grammar Nazi.

Thomas de Mahy, Marquis de Favras, was a French aristocrat whose last words were, "I see that you have made three spelling mistakes," upon reading his sentence warrant.

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11. Jimmy Carter!

Jimmy Carter is the longest-lived president, the longest-retired president, the first president to live forty years after his inauguration, and the first to reach the age of 95.

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12. The changed ending of 'The Emperor's New Groove.'

In the original ending of the Inca-inspired animated film "The Emperor's New Groove," the titular emperor demolishes a rainforest to create a theme park. Sting—who spent 20 years defending the rights of indigenous people—threatened to leave the project unless the ending was changed.

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13. The umbrella.

TIL in WWII, Major Digby Tatham-Warter led a bayonet charge while wielding an umbrella and wearing a bowler hat. He later disabled a German armored car with his umbrella. When saving the chaplain from enemy fire, he said, "Don’t worry about the bullets; I’ve got an umbrella."

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14. Smartwatch worked smart this time.

A 59-year-old woman's smartwatch correctly recognized tachycardia, alerting her to seek help. She was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation and treated, reducing her chances of suffering a severe stroke. In 2017, the FDA approved the use of this technology for medical purposes.

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15. Indian tribesmen catching over 25 pythons in just a month.

Florida brought in two Irula tribesmen from India to catch the invasive Burmese pythons. While 1,000 hunters managed to catch just 106 snakes, the duo caught 27 snakes in just four weeks, including a 16-foot-long female.

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16. Free 2D and 3D images for commercial purposes.

The Smithsonian Museum has over 3 million 2D and 3D images that anyone can use for free for any commercial purpose.

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17. Roundabouts reducing accidents.

The city of Carmel, IN, has the most roundabouts per city in the US, with a total of 138. Since regular intersections were replaced with roundabouts, the number of accidents here has reduced by 40%.

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18. The Satanic Temple.

The Satanic Temple offers academic scholarships to elementary through college students.

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19. Trapped sailors.

When the USS West Virginia battleship was finally salvaged six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a calendar was found in an airtight room where three trapped sailors had marked off 16 days until they passed away.

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20. Doubled the pay to have "zero unlikability" in a global poll.

For the film Stargate, Kurt Russell was paid twice his going rate because he was the only actor at the time to have "zero unlikability" in a global poll.

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21. Chandra's theory of exploding stars.

In 1930, Chandra, an Indian student, showed mathematically that massive stars explode into a supernova and then collapse into neutron stars or black holes. Before that, scientists assumed that all stars collapsed into white dwarfs. Chandra's theory was ridiculed as 'absurd.'

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22. Hong Kong gangster dug his own grave.

In 1996, a Hong Kong gangster known as "Big Spender" kidnapped the son of the richest man in Asia and demanded a ransom of $160 million for his return. After receiving the money, the gangster later called and asked for advice on how to invest the money.

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23. Bill Cosby trying to fire queer people from TV.

In 1966, Bill Cosby tried to get 16-year-old folk singer Janis Ian blacklisted from TV because he thought she was a lesbian and therefore unsuited for family entertainment.

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24. Troubles during the worst flood in history.

In 1927, during the worst flood in the history of the Mississippi River Valley, Herbert Hoover and the Red Cross set up "concentration camps" comprised of African Americans forced to work at gunpoint on the levee and created a media campaign to cover it up.

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25. VJs of East Africa.

In East Africa, movies are often watched with a "VJ" or "video joker" who provides live narration over the movie for translation, contextualization, or comedic purposes.

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26. Artificial O2.

Masks on airplanes generate oxygen by triggering a chemical reaction. If pressure in the cabin is disturbed and masks drop, tugging the mask causes a firing pin to ignite a small explosion in an ‘O2 candle’ where sodium chlorate and potassium perchlorate combine to make oxygen gas.

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27. Alexa, play 'Another Brick in the Wall.'

In 1995, a policy known as “the Wall” was created. It discouraged information sharing between the CIA and FBI, playing a critical role in the inability to stop 9/11. It got so bad that agents played a CD with Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" into the phone as they were told their access was denied.

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28. Wrong calculations.

A British man was surprised to be urgently contacted by the NHS about his health when they calculated his BMI as being 28,000. They had written his 6'2" height as being 6.2 cm tall.

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29. The communication problem.

Arthur Tudor, the older brother of Henry VIII, exchanged letters with his fiancée, Catherine of Aragon, in Latin. When they met in person, however, they were unable to communicate, as they had mastered different pronunciations of the language.

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30. Ronda Rousey and her bio.

Bronze medal Olympian, UFC champion, and WWE wrestler Ronda Rousey used to be a moderator on a Pokémon forum. In her bio, it said, "I also spend a lot of time doing judo... right now I'm ranked #1 under 20; if you don't believe me, look it up."

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31. The infamous game of roulette.

There was an infamous game of roulette played in Monte-Carlo on August 18, 1913, where the ball fell on black 26 times in a row. Gamblers lost millions expecting it to land on red along the way, making "the gambler's fallacy" famous.

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32. Oops, the woman should have filed for bankruptcy instead.

In 2018, a woman accidentally paid a Swiss café $7,709 for coffee because she entered her PIN number as the dollar amount. When she called to get the money back, nobody answered because the café had filed for bankruptcy.

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33. The job of an artist can be really interesting sometimes.

The Tour de France has a team that drives each day's route and turns genitals graffitied on the road into owls and butterflies.

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34. The English Mozart.

Thomas Linley was called "The English Mozart." Mozart called him "a true genius" and said, "he would have been one of the greatest," but he drowned in a lake at age 22, and most of his compositions were lost or burned in a fire.

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Certain situations appear to draw significantly more lies than usual when it comes to conspiracy theories, and people tend to believe in misinformation. So, before accepting any truth or information at face value, conduct a thorough study.

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