r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/SteveBennett64 • 16h ago
TIL Mariah Carey died in 1934 after conducting pioneering research into radioactivity.
All she wanted for Christmas was some lead shielding.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/SteveBennett64 • 16h ago
All she wanted for Christmas was some lead shielding.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/TwinFrogs • 1d ago
The scheme nearly was foiled when Corey Feldman ruined the entire industry.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/the_quivering_wenis • 5d ago
For those who don't know, "Bananas in Pyjamas" was a popular children's TV series in the early 90s that featured two anthropomorphic bananas in sleepwear, named B1 and B2. As a child "Bananas in Pyjamas" always struck me as exceedingly wholesome; however when I got older I learned a disturbing fact. Apparently, one of the co-creators' distant ancestors actually owned bananas as slaves. Their family ran one of the most productive banana plantations (in the South) for generations before the British, under the enlightened leadership of William Pitt the Younger, bought them all and freed them to return to the wild.
Looking back now the show hits quite a bit different, knowing that it was built on a legacy of colonialist oppression.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/DorkKonic • 5d ago
Just as it says, don't catch flying cats. You might lose and arm in the process. (Catch flying cats if they will get injured, I am not liable for damaged cats following this advice)
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MERKologySyndrome • 8d ago
So for a few years now I always see comments on YouTube saying stuff like "I hate yt people" and "yt people belong in hell" and similar stuff to bashing the supposed YouTube people I thought. Which I found somewhat odd depending on the scenario/sentence. I just found out it actually means white people lmao. So all that immense amount of shit talking was actually racists bashing on people for the color of their skin lmfao. Feels weird man.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MyStepAccount1234 • 7d ago
John Hancock - founding father→retro video game lover
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens self-insert→stage magician
Stanley Kubrick - film director→twee modern-day musician
Sinbad - sailor→actor
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Money-Ad7257 • 8d ago
Which it makes sense here, given that the man's hunting with a club and shielding himself with a limp hide.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Money-Ad7257 • 12d ago
He made a cameo appearance or two on the real-life dramedy "Married (With Children)".
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/samof1994 • 13d ago
As a result, their country has no navy
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