Thought-Provoking ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove There Is No Age Limit For Education And Learning

In a fast-paced world like ours, it's practically impossible to keep up with the flow of knowledge that increases by the second every single day. We are constantly learning new things and making knowledge accessible to as many people as possible, as long as they are willing to seek it out.

The surprises never end, and even the things that we thought were facts in the past sometimes turn out to be something completely different that we misunderstood. It is never too late to start learning because education has no age; you learn new things randomly every day without even making an effort, but you can always learn much more by actively seeking knowledge.

The more we learn about life, the more we realize how truly creepy and strange it really is. Sometimes, you wish you could unlearn some things after they ruin your life just by knowing them.

Scroll down and check out some of the weirdest and creepiest facts that were posted on the 'Today I Learned' subreddit, where people share the latest things they learned as long as they are thought-provoking and informative. It is never too late to learn, and the people below proved it with their contributions.

1. "TIL 2010 Vancouver luge gold medallist Felix Loch had his medal melted into 2 discs and gave one to the parents of a deceased competitor who died in a practice run on the day of the opening ceremony."

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2. "TIL a female reporter attempted to recreate the famous novel "Around The World In 80 Days.""

Not only did she complete it with eight days to spare, but she also made a detour to interview Jules Verne, the original author.Reddit

3. "TIL Martin Luther King Jr. was a huge fan of Star Trek."

He loved that it showed a future with people of all colors working together in harmony. He bumped into Uhura, Nichelle Nichols, at a convention. She said she was quitting, but she ended up staying after MLK urged her to, saying she was a role model.Reddit

4. "TIL Hisako Koyama, a female Japanese astronomer, hand-drew sunspots every day for more than 40 years. Her detailed sketches aid researchers in studying solar cycles and the sun's magnetic fields."

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5. "TIL Leonard Nimoy refused to join Star Trek: The Animated Series without George Takei and Nichelle Nichols, claiming they were proof of ethnic diversity in the 23rd century."

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6. "TIL that since Brazil could not afford to send a team to the 1932 Olympics, they sent the athletes on a ship full of coffee. The athletes sold the coffee along the way to fund their journey."

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7. "TIL an FBI whistleblower reported multiple problems in forensic cases."

After years of the FBI seeking to ruin him, his claims were investigated, and a report showed that forensic hair analysis was flawed or inaccurate over 90% of the time.Reddit

8. "TIL thought destroyed by Nazis, a priceless mosaic owned by Roman Emperor Caligula ended up as a coffee table for 50 years in a NYC apartment."

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9. "TIL that breast milk can adapt to a baby's illness and produce more milk with illness-specific antibodies."

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10. "TIL that the work of Charles Drew, a pioneer in preserving blood, led to large-scale blood bank use, U.S. blood donations to Britons in WWII, and the use of bloodmobiles."

He resigned as chief of the first American Red Cross blood bank over a policy that separated the blood of Black and white people.Reddit

11. "TIL that Loving Day in June celebrates the day that interracial marriage became legal in the U.S."

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12. "TIL Emerson Romero was a silent film actor who was deaf."

When movies with sound were invented, deaf actors received fewer roles, and the intertitle text was removed. This led him to create an early form of movie captioning in 1947 so that movies would still be accessible to deaf people.Reddit

13. "TIL of The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902."

The French wanted rats exterminated from the sewer system. They set a bounty for each dead rat tail. Thousands of tails were submitted per day, but the rat problem only grew worse. They found that the hunters were breeding, not hunting, rats for their tails.Reddit

14. "TIL that to save the Hawaiian culture and people from disappearing, Kalākaua, the last king of the Hawaiian kingdom, went on a world tour in 1881 and traveled to Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, becoming the first reigning monarch to circumnavigate the globe."

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15. "TIL that in 1604, King James I wrote ‘A Counterblaste to Tobacco,’ in which he described smoking as a ‘custom lothesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.’"

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16. "TIL that Mississippi did not make child-selling illegal until 2009, after a woman tried to sell her granddaughter for $2,000 and a car, and it was discovered that there was no law to punish her under."

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17. "TIL that in the 1950s, a psychiatrist had three paranoid schizophrenic patients who each believed they were Jesus Christ."

He put them in a room together to see if their beliefs would change after confronting each other. They did not change their beliefs; instead, each individually concluded that the other two men were insane. They made a movie about it called Three Christs.Reddit

18. "TIL Thankful Villages (also known as Blessed Villages) are those few villages in Britain that suffered no casualties in the First World War."

These villages had lost no men in the war because all those who left to serve came home again when the war ended.Reddit

19. "TIL Black Panthers are not a real species."

They are jaguars and leopards that have “melanism,” which causes them to have black skin. It's the opposite effect of having albinism.Reddit

20. "TIL that Willie O'Ree, the first Black man to play in the NHL, was blind in one eye."

It was caused by a ricocheting puck that hit him in the face when he was 18, and he kept it a secret for his entire 21-year career.Reddit

21. "TIL More than 30 million viewers in Britain tuned in to watch the BBC “Royal Family” documentary in 1969, such that during the intermission, the flushing of toilets all over London caused a water shortage."

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Life is so weird that it sometimes feels fake; there must be many strange historical events that happened and never made it to the history books. Unless they invent some sort of time-traveling device, we will, unfortunately, most likely never learn about those historical events.