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TIL that during a fight in an NBA game, Kermit Washington punched Rudy Tomjanovich so hard he not only fractured Tomjanovich's skull but he could taste the spinal fluid leaking from his skull. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Wa… #til #todayilearned #today #learn #learning
#TodayILearned that former President Bill Clinton spoke at UC San Diego’s 1997 commencement, drawing a crowd of nearly 20,000 people. See this moment through the student newspaper in our Digital Collections: bit.ly/3Ht4FZW 📸 Courtesy of Special Collections & Archives
TIL diesel fuel was invented in 1892 and Rudolf Diesel, the inventor, demonstrated his engine at the 1900 Paris Exposition running on peanut oil. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_fu…. #til #todayilearned #today #learn #learning
TIL that the Boston Marathon has a retired number. Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run in it despite an unofficial ban on female runners. She wore bib #261. 50 years later when she ran in the 🧵[CONTINUED WITH SOURCE BELOW]🧵 👇👇👇 #til #todayilearned #today #learn
A few days back, traveling from Paris to Delhi, I realized that seat number 13 does not exist in Air India planes. There is number 12 and then number 14, no 13 in between. Don't know if it happens with other airlines also. #TodayILearned #AirIndia #trivia
Some iwi, including in Manawatū, use Puanga (also known as Rigel), to mark the new year rather than the Matariki constellation, as the Tararua Range blocks out most of the cluster from view. #TodayILearned
🤯 The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti. 🔁 Share! #winGalaxyM17 #TodayILearned #india
We’ve all seen this at shoe stores. Almost everyone has stood on it. Very few know its name. It’s called the Brannock Device, the tool that measures your foot length, width, and arch to get the fit right. #TodayILearned #DidYouKnow #BrannockDevice
It snows in Australia. I just assumed it was sweltering hot there all year long. #TodayILearned
New post by Marcos Henrique. Real-Time ALB Log Analysis for Proactive Integration Recovery via Datadog Monitors, Workflows and AWS Lambda dev.to/aws-builders/r… #aws #datadog #todayilearned
🤯 Chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time. #winGalaxyS25Ultra #TodayILearned #india
Change my mind. 👇 #Breaking #Trending #TodayILearned #WaitForIt #GrowthMindset #Productivity #MentalHealth #Motivation
Day 243 of #365DaysOfCode 🚀 Web Development:Started my Tailwind CSS journey & completed the installation DSA:Practiced arrays traversal, insertion, deletion, and passing arrays to functions #TodayILearned #WebDev #ReactJS #DSA #CPlusPlus #CodingJourney #DeveloperLife
TIL that a doctor named Richard Jarecki recorded over 20, 000 roulette spins by hand across European casinos, identified biased wheels, won the equivalent of $8 million, and was banned from every 🧵[CONTINUED WITH SOURCE BELOW]🧵 👇👇👇 #til #todayilearned #today #learn
TIL since 2009, Hangul, the Korean writing system, has been used to teach the language Cia-Cia, spoken on Buton island in Indonesia Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cia-Cia_l… #til #todayilearned #today #learn #learning
Hey @Gmail when were you going to tell me that swiping up or down on the top right profile icon is the fastest way to switch among accounts OR did everyone else knew it 😅. #TodayILearned
🤯 There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo. 🙌 Inspired? #SaiSudarshan #TodayILearned #india
TIL of 22 year old Lieutenant Alonzo Cushing, who held back a Confederate attack with his artillery during the Battle of Gettysburg. His abdomen was ripped open by shrapnel, but he continued directing 🧵[CONTINUED WITH SOURCE BELOW]🧵 👇👇👇 #til #todayilearned #today #learn
TIL The Nepali name for Mt Everest was coined by A Nepali historian in late 1930s, Decades after the English name Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baburam_A…. #til #todayilearned #today #learn #learning
TIL that during a fight in an NBA game, Kermit Washington punched Rudy Tomjanovich so hard he not only fractured Tomjanovich's skull but he could taste the spinal fluid leaking from his skull. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Wa… #til #todayilearned #today #learn #learning
🤯 The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti. 🔁 Share! #winGalaxyM17 #TodayILearned #india
🤯 Chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time. #winGalaxyS25Ultra #TodayILearned #india
A few days back, traveling from Paris to Delhi, I realized that seat number 13 does not exist in Air India planes. There is number 12 and then number 14, no 13 in between. Don't know if it happens with other airlines also. #TodayILearned #AirIndia #trivia
TIL of the Hooded Pitohui, the only poisonous bird was discovered to be so when researchers were preparing samples and kept finding their fingers going numb. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooded_pi… #til #todayilearned #today #learn #learning
TIL that the Boston Marathon has a retired number. Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run in it despite an unofficial ban on female runners. She wore bib #261. 50 years later when she ran in the 🧵[CONTINUED WITH SOURCE BELOW]🧵 👇👇👇 #til #todayilearned #today #learn
TIL that Earthworms are hermaphrodites and come from cocoons. Source: earthwormsoc.org.uk/lifecycle #til #todayilearned #today #learn #learning
TIL diesel fuel was invented in 1892 and Rudolf Diesel, the inventor, demonstrated his engine at the 1900 Paris Exposition running on peanut oil. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_fu…. #til #todayilearned #today #learn #learning
🤯 There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo. 🙌 Inspired? #SaiSudarshan #TodayILearned #india
TIL of 22 year old Lieutenant Alonzo Cushing, who held back a Confederate attack with his artillery during the Battle of Gettysburg. His abdomen was ripped open by shrapnel, but he continued directing 🧵[CONTINUED WITH SOURCE BELOW]🧵 👇👇👇 #til #todayilearned #today #learn
TIL that a doctor named Richard Jarecki recorded over 20, 000 roulette spins by hand across European casinos, identified biased wheels, won the equivalent of $8 million, and was banned from every 🧵[CONTINUED WITH SOURCE BELOW]🧵 👇👇👇 #til #todayilearned #today #learn
TIL the distinction between frogs and toads is informal and purely cosmetic, and does not reflect taxonomy or evolutionary history. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog #til #todayilearned #today #learn #learning
The chance of a laptop falling twice in 2 days is improbable but never zero. #todayilearned🙏
TIL that during WWII, the British military dressed a corpse in a fake officer's uniform, attached fabricated Allied invasion plans to it, and dropped it into the ocean off Spain to mislead Nazi 🧵[CONTINUED WITH SOURCE BELOW]🧵 👇👇👇 #til #todayilearned #today #learn #learning
TIL since 2009, Hangul, the Korean writing system, has been used to teach the language Cia-Cia, spoken on Buton island in Indonesia Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cia-Cia_l… #til #todayilearned #today #learn #learning
TIL The Nepali name for Mt Everest was coined by A Nepali historian in late 1930s, Decades after the English name Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baburam_A…. #til #todayilearned #today #learn #learning
🤯 Cats urine glows under a black light. ❤️ Resonate? #AIActionShot #TodayILearned #india
Kenapa sih konten hiburan lebih laku dibandingkan konten yang bermanfaat? Gimana sih bikin konten edukasi bisa naik kayak konten hiburan? #TodayILearned 👀
15 faits insolites, mais pourtant totalement véridiques #Reddit #TIL #todayilearned | bit.ly/47Qn1wG
#TodayILearned that former President Bill Clinton spoke at UC San Diego’s 1997 commencement, drawing a crowd of nearly 20,000 people. See this moment through the student newspaper in our Digital Collections: bit.ly/3Ht4FZW 📸 Courtesy of Special Collections & Archives
#TodayILearned: DC Comics asked readers whether or not Beast Boy should join the Teen Titans. What would your answer have been? (Teen Titans #6 - Bob Haney, Bill Molno, Sal Trapani, and Stan Starkman) #BeastBoy #TeenTitans #dccomics
#TodayILearned: As with Superman, Earth’s sun grants Hawkman and Hawkgirl unexpected powers. (Hawkman #12 - Gardner Fox, Murphy Anderson, and Gaspar Saladino) #Hawkman #Hawkgirl #dccomics
#TodayILearned: Larfleeze is not always in control of his ring’s constructs. (Threshold #2 - “Crime with Orange” - Keith Giffen, Scott Kolins, John Kalisz, and Dave Sharpe) #OrangeLantern #Larfleeze #Threshold #New52 #dccomics
#TodayILearned France was the first European country to introduce legislation on the "right to disconnect". Since January 2017, the French government has legally required employers to negotiate agreements with unions for a right to disconnect from technology after working hours.
A bit late to post this tweet, but yesterday I did not follow #TodayILearned path, but #TodayITaught! @DevrelUni I had an amazing opportunity to give a talk to the students at 42 School in Berlin about "How to Find a Job in Web3: First Steps" 🧵👇
#TodayILearned Kate Sessions, the "Mother of Balboa Park," planted 100 trees a year starting in 1892! 🌳💚 Her work shaped San Diego’s green spaces. 🌿✨ 🔗 bit.ly/4hTHN2K #UCSDLibrary #TILUCSD #WomensHistoryMonth #SanDiegoHistory #BalboaPark #LibraryFinds
Happy César Chávez Day! 🎉✊ #TodayILearned activist Herman Baca has fought for immigrant rights for decades. Here he is with Chávez in 1976. See more in our Digital Collection: bit.ly/3B6h12Y. #ucsdlibrary
#TodayILearned botanist Alice Eastwood worked with Kate Sessions for 50+ years identifying plants! 🌿 At 91, she led this botany trip to Point Reyes in 1950! 🏞️✨ 🔗 library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb83… #UCSDLibrary #TILUCSD #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #LibraryFinds
#TodayILearned: Blue Lanterns have the ability to charge up Green Lanterns. (Green Lantern Corps #20 - Peter J. Tomasi, Fernando Pasarin, Scott Hanna, Gabe Eltaeb, and Dave Sharpe) #GuyGardner #SaintWalker #GreenLantern #BlueLantern #WrathOfTheFirstLantern #New52 #dccomics
15 faits insolites, mais pourtant totalement véridiques (partie 2) #Reddit #subreddit #todayilearned | bit.ly/4a0fcp0
#TodayILearned: Aqualad can survive out of the water for only one hour. (Aquaman #3 - Henry Boltinoff and Nick Cardy) #Aqualad #dccomics
#TodayILearned that the 2016 UC San Diego commencement speaker was Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and pioneer of microcredit and microfinance. 💡🌍 Read our Digital Collections: bit.ly/4jLbRy0 📸 Courtesy of Special Collections & Archives
We’re continuing the #EarthMonth celebration into May! 🌍 #TodayILearned Victoria Falls, known as Mosi-oa-Tunya (“the smoke that thunders”), straddles Zambia and Zimbabwe and can be heard from 25 miles away. 💦 Explore more in our Digital Collections: bit.ly/4idfDzc 🔍
🌅 Good morning, curious minds! It's time for a new #TodayILearned 🌌 #TIL TIL about the extraordinary lifespan of Greenland sharks. These mysterious creatures of the deep can live up to 400 years, making them one of the longest-living vertebrates on Earth! 🦈🌊 #NatureWonders
Change my mind. 👇 #Breaking #Trending #TodayILearned #WaitForIt #GrowthMindset #Productivity #MentalHealth #Motivation
#todayilearned that the WWII rocket propelled anti-tank weapon commonly known as a bazooka, was so called because it resembled a jazz musical instrument invented by comedian Bob Burns 30 years earlier. The weapon concept originated with famous US rocket engineer Robert Goddard.
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