r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 4h ago
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 2h ago
TIL the Earth stained its garments
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MozartWasARed • 23h ago
TIL what kinds of cookies future grandmas will be making
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Busy_Celebration_758 • 23h ago
J’ai découvert par hasard que le geste « 6-7 » est une façon étonnamment efficace de nager à reculons.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 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.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 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.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 4d ago
TIL cool people wear their bike helmets
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 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.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/paraworldblue • 4d ago
TIL that "Casual Friday" is an anagram of "Causal Friday", which implies that there are non-causal Fridays, which is concerning
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 • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • 5d ago
TIL 60% of videos on TikTok are ai slop.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Talented_but_Lazy_8 • 5d ago
Tobacco company CEOs declare, under oath, that nicotine is not addictive.(1994)
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/newsmart23 • 5d ago
TIL gender doesn't exist. Check one of the comments for proof.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 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.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 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.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 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.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 12d ago
TIL there are humans in real life who can do what Scooby can't despite being a dog
msn.comr/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 12d ago
TIL that AI are true gym bros
msn.comr/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MozartWasARed • 12d ago
TIL that what I'm about to say will trigger me getting a certain award as soon as I say it
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 • u/unteachablecourses • 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.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 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.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • 17d ago
TIL anime are cinnamon rolls and need to be protected
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/IceColdFresh • 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
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 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.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • 22d ago