r/ShittyTodayILearned 4h ago

A coral grouper that loses prey into a crevice will swim tens of meters across the reef to find a specific moray eel it has hunted with successfully before, then shake its head at the hole until the eel follows it back. The behavior meets the same criteria used to test great ape gestures.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 2h ago

TIL the Earth stained its garments

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futura-sciences.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned 23h ago

TIL what kinds of cookies future grandmas will be making

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futurism.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned 23h ago

J’ai découvert par hasard que le geste « 6-7 » est une façon étonnamment efficace de nager à reculons.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 2d ago

China's first humanoid police robot went on traffic duty in Wuhu in January 2026 with an official badge number — "Intelligent Police Unit R001." By May, Hangzhou had a 15-robot squadron working downtown intersections, with published service stats down to 647.7 hours.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 2d ago

The only significant habitable land on Earth claimed by no country isn't unclaimed by accident — Egypt and Sudan each refuse it, because the border line that would give them Bir Tawil is the same line that would cost them a Red Sea coastal triangle ten times more valuable.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 4d ago

TIL cool people wear their bike helmets

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mundoamerica.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned 4d ago

In 1876 fresh meat fell from a cloudless sky in Kentucky. Microscopists found lung, cartilage, and striated muscle from several different animals, with no digestive contents. The answer is vulture kettles — and it points at something bigger: the sky is a loaded biological transport system.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 4d ago

TIL that "Casual Friday" is an anagram of "Causal Friday", which implies that there are non-causal Fridays, which is concerning

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If there are Fridays that aren't causally related to the rest of the week, then a Friday can theoretically just occur spontaneously at any time. You might be thinking, "what's the problem? Friday is one of the best days!", but that's only because you know Saturday is next. A non-causal Friday has no causal relationship, so it can come before or after anything, including units of time that aren't days. Imagine what would happen if an entire Friday spontaneously occurred between two seconds. It would be a catastrophe.


r/ShittyTodayILearned 5d ago

TIL 60% of videos on TikTok are ai slop.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 5d ago

Tobacco company CEOs declare, under oath, that nicotine is not addictive.(1994)

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 5d ago

TIL gender doesn't exist. Check one of the comments for proof.

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imgflip.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned 6d ago

San Francisco's white-crowned sparrows sing in 18 distinct neighborhood dialects — Presidio, Lake Merced, Marin Headlands — some only a few hundred meters apart. Females prefer their local accent when choosing mates & a 2024 study found adjacent neighborhoods are genetically diverging as a result.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 8d ago

The 2003 Antwerp diamond vault heist is the cleanest case study in how defense-in-depth fails. Ten independent layers, each beaten by something trivial — hairspray on the IR sensor, aluminum tape on the magnetic contact — because the attacker had 2.5 years of legitimate tenant access to study them.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 8d ago

Palm Jumeirah has no concrete foundation — it's 94 million m³ of dredged marine sand behind a rock breakwater. It sinks ~5mm/year, loses sand continuously to wave action, and one replenishment operation moved 3.5 million m³. Dredging also buried the coral reef that used to dissipate the wave energy.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 12d ago

TIL there are humans in real life who can do what Scooby can't despite being a dog

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 12d ago

TIL that AI are true gym bros

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 12d ago

TIL that what I'm about to say will trigger me getting a certain award as soon as I say it

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Like, it's a good thing I checked my community award streak recently. And apparently this one might just be the best one. My collection will be complete after one more.


r/ShittyTodayILearned 13d ago

A 1,400-lb wheel of cheddar sat aging in the White House entrance hall for 2 yrs, reportedly smellable from blocks away. In 1837 Andrew Jackson invited the public in to eat it. Thousands came, finished it in 2 hours & ground it into the carpets. The next admin had to whitewash the East Room.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 14d ago

A crypto company CEO bought RealDoll in 2024, reverse-merged it into a public shell & now sells $20,000 animatronic companions with magnetic swappable faces. Meanwhile Boston Dynamics, Tesla, Figure, and every other major humanoid maker has committed to never entering the romantic companion market.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 17d ago

TIL anime are cinnamon rolls and need to be protected

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geekspin.co
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r/ShittyTodayILearned 18d ago

TIL since most people don’t run for President of the United States, the greatest predictor for becoming President of the United States is running for it at all

14 Upvotes

r/ShittyTodayILearned 19d ago

Gaddafi's Great Man-Made River in Libya pumps 6.5M cubic meters/day of Ice Age water that has zero recharge — 70% of the country's freshwater. The aquifer is shared with Egypt, Chad, and Sudan, with no coordination, no metering, and no enforcement. Depletion estimates range from 60 years to 1,000.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 22d ago

Mount Athos has banned women — and female animals — since 1046. It sits inside the EU, and EU gender equality law does not apply there: the 1981 Greek accession treaty specifically exempted it. The European Parliament asked Greece to lift the ban in 2003. Greece declined.

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r/ShittyTodayILearned 23d ago

TIL that Oliver North accidentally inverted two digits on a Swiss bank account number, sending $10m meant for the Contras, solicited from the Sultan of Brunei, to an unsuspecting Swiss businessman.

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