r/todayilearned

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300 posts · 300 comments sampled (22 Jun 2026 → 24 Jun 2026)

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Top posts (sampled)

18.4kTIL The Liver is the only vital organ in the human body that can fully regenerate. Even after two-thirds of its healthy tissue has been damaged or removed. With full anatomical restoration taking only 3 months.
16.9kTIL In 1837 a British woman named Caroline Newton bit off part of a man's nose when he tried to kiss her without her consent. He took her to court but lost with the judge saying "When a man kisses a woman against her will, she is fully entitled to bite his nose off, if she so pleases."
16.1kTIL a UK man drove for more than 70 years without a driver's license or insurance. It was finally revealed after he was pulled over for the first time ever in his 80s. He had never been in an accident, caused anyone an injury, or made anyone lose out financially by hitting them while uninsured.
13.7kTIL a Spanish public servant skipped work for 10 years, while still earning his €50K salary. He would go in to work at 7:30am to clock in & then leave, only returning to clock out at 3:30pm. He was fired in 2018 after coworkers raised suspicions. He was banned from holding a public post for 9 years.
11.1kTIL that there's an Indonesian dish called tempeh bongkrek, which is made from fermented coconuts. Its production was banned in 1975 because it was discovered to be associated with a highly toxic bacterial poison. However, because of how delicious it is, people still attempt to make it themselves.
10.6kTIL that McDonald’s “Grimace” is actually a taste bud.
9.6kTIL Chinatowns in Canada were largely “bachelor societies,” where men outnumbered women by a ratio of almost twenty‐eight to one in 1923. Many Chinese men came hoping to save enough money to bring over their families but died alone as the law basically made it impossible for them to marry someone
7.7kTIL that while on the run from law enforcement in 1974, serial killer Ted Bundy worked at the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Commission, where he actually wrote a pamphlet for women on how to avoid being hitchhiking victims.
7.6kTIL: The “Major Oak” in Sherwood Forest has died after 1200 years. It was the mythical meeting place of Robin Hood and the merry men. It put out no leaves this spring.
7.4kTIL Thomas More, coiner of the term Utopia and Catholic martyr, gave his wife tutelage in music and literature after they got married and ensured his daughters got such a high level of education it even impressed his friend Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus.

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