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Popular Themes in r/todayilearned
#1
News
: "TIL an entire squad of Marines managed to get past an AI powered camera, "undetected". Two somersaulted for 300m, another pair pretended to be a cardboard box, and one guy pretended to be a bush. The AI could not detect a single one of them."
10 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "TIL that the $2 bill is still being printed and circulated today. The reason it feels rare is because so many people believe it’s rare and end up hoarding it, which keeps it out of circulation."
3 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "TIL that all four major US airlines lose money flying passengers, but still turn a profit thanks to loyalty programs and credit card deals"
1 post
#4
Ideas
: "TIL That Tianducheng, a city in China that commenced construction just prior to 2007 and has a population of over 30,000 people, was modelled on Paris France. It includes a replica Eiffel Tower, neoclassical architecture and baroque features."
1 post
Popular Topics in r/todayilearned
#1
Til
: "Til "Weird Al" Yankovic never got permissions from Prince to record parodies of his songs. Once, before the American Music Awards where he and Prince were assigned to sit in the same row, he got a telegram from Prince's management company, demanding he not even make eye contact with the artist."
258 posts
#2
Today I Learned
: "TIL Bruce Willis lost two-thirds of his hearing in his left ear while filming Die Hard (1988) after he fired a gun next to his ear, that was reportedly loaded with extra-loud blanks, when he was pinned underneath a table."
16 posts
#3
History
: "TIL that a bedroom of a fallen soldier in WWI is currently a de facto museum which are intended to last for 500 years"
12 posts
#4
Tilt
: "TIL that the $2 bill is still being printed and circulated today. The reason it feels rare is because so many people believe it’s rare and end up hoarding it, which keeps it out of circulation."
7 posts
#5
Technology
: "TIL the last conviction for private and conseual homosexual acts in the USA was in 1998."
5 posts
#6
Doughnuts
5 posts
#7
Nazarenko
3 posts
#8
Entertainment
3 posts
#9
Biology
3 posts
#10
Nasa
: "TIL the Bell X-14 was an experimental VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) jet. Only one was ever made, and Nasa flew it for years to study thrust vectoring and vertical flight—research that helped pave the way for the Harrier and F-35B."
2 posts
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