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/r/todayilearned/

r/todayilearned

40.4M members
r/todayilearned is a subreddit with 40.4M members. Its distinguishing qualities are that the community is massive in size, and has crazy activity.
You learn something new every day; what did you learn today? Submit interesting and specific facts about something that you just found out here.

Popular Themes in r/todayilearned

#1
Pain & Anger
: "TIL that the more you hear a lie, the more you're likely to believe it. It's called the illusory truth effect. Some study in 1977 figured it out. Basically, if you hear something enough, your brain's like, "Yeah, that sounds right.""
3 posts

Popular Topics in r/todayilearned

#1

Til

: "Til when Great British Bake Off hosts Mel and Sue would see a contestant crying out of frustration or disappointment, they would use their coats to block the person from cameras, or start swearing a lot, so the footage was unusable"
285 posts
#2

Interesting

: "TIL that the term "FOMO" (Fear of Missing Out) was coined by Harvard MBA student Patrick J. McGinnis in a 2004 article. FOMO is recognized in psychology as a phenomenon linked to anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem."
33 posts
#3

Hard Time

21 posts
#4

Worst

19 posts
#5

Website

13 posts
#6

History

: "TIL that when Victor Hugo died in 1885, some Parisian brothels reportedly closed for a day to mourn his passing."
12 posts
#7

Struggle

11 posts
#8

Tool

10 posts
#9

Trivia

: "TIL that the term "FOMO" (Fear of Missing Out) was coined by Harvard MBA student Patrick J. McGinnis in a 2004 article. FOMO is recognized in psychology as a phenomenon linked to anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem."
10 posts
#10

Frustrated

8 posts

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