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15 Bits Of Knowledge Recently Discovered In The Subreddit 'Today I Learned'

Every day brings a new opportunity to learn something new, which is exactly what the following people are admitting to on the subreddit /r/TodayILearned. But let's be honest, you probably didn't know these things either. For example, did you know that Oprah's "You get a car!" episode apparently taxed all of the audience members thousands each just to get the car that was gifted to them? Neither did I, and it certainly makes that episode a lot less exciting.

Hopefully, the online community can still be used for learning in these difficult times, because the things we see on here every single day are so corrupted and concerning that it would be a nice break from the nightmare. And hopefully, these facts can teach you something new about this strange world we live in. Below is a collection of random but brand-new facts people have discovered and felt the need to share with the rest of the world.

You get a car, you get a car, and you get more taxes!

r/todayilearned u/nicenicenicesq 16 days ago TIL After Oprah's famous "You get a car" episode, where she gave away 276 cars at a total cost of $7.6 million, many of the recipients sent in complaints to the show as they had all been charged a $6-7k "gift tax"

(Source: Reddit)

Time to open up a bakery

r/todayilearned u/derawin07 2 days ago TIL: Tom Cruise is obsessed with sending his co-stars cakes, even ones he worked with decades ago. Louis Theroux, documentary maker, even went to his grandmother's 100th Birthday Party to find 100 cupcakes from Tom Cruise, after Tom worked with his cousin

(Source: Reddit)

Extremely wholesome and necessary

r/todayilearned u/Tokyono 12 days ago TIL when Beethoven first performed his Ninth Symphony, as he couldn't hear the rapturous applause it received due to his deafness, one of his singers approached him and turned him around so that he could see the standing ovation he was receiving.

(Source: Reddit)

Please provide number of said monk, because I need some guidance

r/todayilearned u/dorkmax 10 days ago TIL David Bowie briefly considered becoming a Buddhist monk. After a few months' study at Tibet House in London, he was told by a Lama, "You don't want to be Buddhist. ... You should follow music."

(Source: Reddit)

Kind of feel like those teachers should be in jail?

r/todayilearned u/ae51 5 days ago TIL that the final science exam for 8th grade students in Ketchikan Alaska is a 2 night survival trip on an uninhabited island

(Source: Reddit)

And it will remain that for another 50

r/todayilearned u/Beerbrewing 16 days ago TIL The song "Mr. Blue Sky" by the Electric Light Orchestra was found to be the happiest song ever using a formula made by studying songs from a period of 50 years.

(Source: Reddit)

Congrats to you, Marge!

r/todayilearned u/DannyBoy77 83 14 hours ago TIL that the model for Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Marge Champion, is still alive and turned 100 this year.

(Source: Reddit)

You don't say…

r/todayilearned u/amansaggu26 2 hours ago TIL A psychology study of more than 4,000 millionaires found that people with more wealth are indeed happier with life. They also found that people who earned their wealth were happier than those who inherited it.

(Source: Reddit)

Would very much like a Netflix documentary on this immediately

r/todayilearned u/literally12sofus 4 hours ago TIL while on the set on Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Nicholas Cage had a stalker who also happened to be a mime. When talking about the experience Cage said, ""I was being stalked by a mime-silent, but maybe deadly."

(Source: Reddit)

Can't think of a worse match in my life

r/todayilearned u/TrendWarrior101 1 hour ago TIL The Walt Disney Company had a deal to acquire Twitter in 2017, but decided to back off, saying "the nastiness is extraordinary" on the platform and thus hurting its family- friendly image. They opted out to instead buy 75% ownership in video-streaming technology provider BAMTech.

(Source: Reddit)

Hasn't Grey's Anatomy done the same?

r/todayilearned u/cobaltcollapse 1 hour ago TIL the ninth season of Spongebob Squarepants ran for four and a half years

(Source: Reddit)

And the rent was probably still extremely high

r/todayilearned u/Mark2285 1 hour ago TIL Venice Beach California was once covered with oil drilling derricks

(Source: Reddit)

And yet probably still less expensive than Yeezy sneakers

r/todayilearned u/berkshirefifer 8 hours ago TIL that despite later banning the game for inciting riots, Henry VIII owned the first pair of custom football (soccer) boots!

(Source: Reddit)

Ok but can I eat them?

r/todayilearned u/Tokyono 11 hours ago TIL there is a PEZ museum in California that claims to have every PEZ dispenser ever sold. It opened in 1995, and the couple running it had been collecting PEZ dispensers for more than a decade

(Source: Reddit)

What took everyone so long?

r/todayilearned u/ryandmc609 - 1 hour ago TIL the very first use of the word fk on television was on November 13, 1965 by literary agent Kenneth Tynan during a satirical discussion show entitled BBC3. I

(Source: Reddit)




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