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r/todayilearned 39,687,600 subscribers — You learn something new every day; what did you learn today?
Submit interesting and specific facts about something that you just found out here.
Top posts this week The 10 highest-scored posts from the last 7 days — ranking by real score over a week naturally filters out posts that got removed shortly after posting.
Post Score Posted TIL that Patrick Stewart and his wife were married in a Mexican restaurant by Ian McKellen. 43869 6d ago TIL Google pays Mozilla roughly $400 – 500 million USD a year to be Firefox’s default search engine, a deal that makes up over 80% of Mozilla’s revenue and that its executives have testified Firefox might not survive without. 37284 4d ago TIL There's a golden statue of Buddha in Thailand weighing 5.5 metric tonnes. For nearly 200 years, it was covered with stucco and coloured glass to conceal its value. It remained that way until 1955 during relocation when the plaster was accidentally chipped, revealing the gold underneath. 27393 3d ago TIL a woman in England was refused drive-through service due to being on horseback, determined, she went inside, where her horse proceeded to defecate. 25978 4d ago TIL the last time a supernova was unquestionably visible with the naked eye was in 1604. Known as "Kepler's Supernova", it was so bright it was seen during the day for a period of three weeks. Records of its sighting exist in European, Chinese, Korean, and Arabic sources. 24376 4d ago TIL Patrick Stewart considered his work on The Simpsons (where he voiced the leader of the Stonecutters secret society) and Sesame Street (where he was in a skit praising the letter B) the “most distinguished” work he did in the US. 21654 2d ago TIL NASA sent a spider named Anita to space to see if spiders could spin webs in zero gravity and her body is kept by the Smithsonian. 19331 7d ago TIL that sailors used to pour oil into the ocean during storms to calm the waves, and ships were required to carry "storm oil" for this purpose until the late 20th century. 18751 5d ago TIL that the legendary zombie movie director George Romero had his first filmmaking job in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Fred Rogers later privately complimented Romero for his horror movie career, and called Dawn of the Dead "a lot of fun". 18622 2d ago TIL that at age 15 Jennifer Connelly lost part of a finger whilst filming the 1985 movie Phenomena. Whilst filming the climax, the chimp Tanga attacked Connolly biting off part of one of her fingers and continued to act aggressively toward her thus necessitating a body double for some scenes. 17183 6d ago
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curl "https://api.threadsnoop.com/v1/posts?subreddit=todayilearned&limit=25" \
-H "x-api-key: ts_live_YOUR_KEY"See /docs/posts for pagination, filtering with q=, and full response shape, or /docs/subreddits for the rules endpoint used above.
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