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Popular Themes in r/todayilearned
#1
News
: "TIL that While filming his scenes, Anakin's actor would sometimes make lightsaber noises from his mouth, which caused Lucas to stop filming and tell him "Hayden, that looks really great, but I can see your mouth moving. You don't have to do that, we add the sound effects in afterward""
10 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "TIL In Tug of War, there are at least two mechanisms of injury that can result in amputation"
2 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "Today I learned that there is a restaurant in New York that doesn’t employ professional chefs, instead they have every day a grandmother from a different country designs a menu that honors her native cuisine"
1 post
#4
Advice Requests
: "TIL about Sarah Wells, a black Wisconsin woman who earned her High School Diploma at 92 years old. "I want to take a course in Botany... I do not know where else I can go, but I am sure there is something else I can do.""
1 post
#5
Money Talk
: "TIL after Post Malone found out that other patrons at the Houston bar he was in had covered his check, he asked the waitress to charge him for anything so he could leave a tip. The waitress then rang him up for a $1 bill, and in return, he tipped her $20,000, leaving a total of $20,001."
1 post
Popular Topics in r/todayilearned
#1
Til
: "Til in 2009 a man hid a bomb inside his anus in an attempt to assassinate saudi prince Muhammad bin Nayef, which was described as "a novel technique". Even though he got within hand-shake distance from the prince, his body absorbed most of the blast, so Bin Nayef was only slightly injured"
241 posts
#2
History
: "TIL Benedict IX is the only person to have been Pope more than once. He was forced out, managed to regain the throne, only to resign because he wanted to marry his cousin. He soon changed his mind and became Pope for the third time. He is the youngest Pope in History (aged 20 when first elected)"
26 posts
#3
Fact
: "TIL all USPS (United States Postal Service) Mail Trucks were designed and manuFactured by Grumman Aerospace Corp (now Northrop-Grumman, designer of the A-10 Warthog and B-2 Spirit bomber) up until 1994."
13 posts
#4
Factoid
: "TIL the Secret Service was originally created in 1865 to combat counterfeiting. At that time, nearly 1/3 of currency in the U.S. was fake."
13 posts
#5
Pope
: "TIL that at the time of Pope Sisinnius' election, he was so weakened by gout that he was unable to feed himself with his hands. His papacy lasted just 20 days, from January 15 until his death on February 4 of 708."
7 posts
#6
War
: "TIL that in 1912, a boy named Bobby Dunbar went missing. Eight months later, he was found with another family who claimed that he was their son, Bruce Anderson. The Andersons didn't have the money to fight in court, so they lost custody. In 2004, DNA testing confirmed that the boy wasn’t Bobby."
6 posts
#7
Music
: "TIL Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers. Playing the Music video "Rhythm Nation" on one laptop even caused a laptop sitting nearby to crash. It turns out that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives."
5 posts
#8
Dg Ispr
5 posts
#9
Military
: "TIL that Navajo language was used to carry top-secret messages during the Pacific campaign, WW2. Navajo, a native american language, is incredibly complex and obscure, it was thought to be impossible to decipher by the Japanese Army"
4 posts
#10
Religion
: "TIL that Navajo language was used to carry top-secret messages during the Pacific campaign, WW2. Navajo, a native american language, is incredibly complex and obscure, it was thought to be impossible to decipher by the Japanese Army"
4 posts
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