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TIL That The Top 50 Oldest Living People Are All Females. The oldest known living person is Tomiko Itooka of Japan, aged 116 years, 186 days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_living_people
https://redd.it/1gzkxbb
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TIL that the Korean Alphabet was made because the King at the time didn't like how only the rich could learn to read. So he decided to take matters into his own hands and create a new writing system from scratch that can be "learned before lunchtime." You can actually learn to read it in 20 minutes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Hangul
https://redd.it/1gzcuzb
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TIL when Mongol fleets under Kublai Khan attacked Japan in 1274 and 1281, typhoons struck both times, causing significant damage to the fleets. Japan successfully repelled the invasions, and the Mongols never attacked again. The typhoons are called "kamikaze" and are said to have saved Japan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze_(typhoon)
https://redd.it/1gzn540
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TIL that the misconception that the Glock pistol can get through an X-Ray machine without being flagged, is linked to the film Die Hard 2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock#Glock_17
https://redd.it/1gzsmtu
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TIL that during one July, 2007 segment of Fox & Friends they described the children's TV host Fred Rogers as evil for supposedly encouraging generations of children to grow up with a sense of self-entitlement. They also used titles such as "Blame Mr. Rogers," and "Was Mr. Rogers Wrong?"
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fox-fred-rogers-evil/
https://redd.it/1gzvlwc
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TIL Rapid ejaculator rats are more susceptible to anxiety compared with normal ejaculator rats
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38622269/
https://redd.it/1gyw062
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TIL about the campaign to ban Water. The dihydrogen monoxide parody is a parody that involves referring to water by its unfamiliar chemical name and is attributed to "Coalition to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide" by UCSC.
https://www.dhmo.org/
https://redd.it/1gymtam
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TIL that boxing rounds were changed from 15 to 12, after the match between Ray Mancini and Kim Duk-koo, which would result in the death of the latter. Mancini was heartbroken after the fight and considered quitting boxing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Duk-koo
https://redd.it/1gz14gm
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TIL In 1910, a Spanish shepherd named José María Grimaldos López disappeared. Two men, León Sánchez and Gregorio Valero, confessed to his murder under torture and spent 12 years in prison. In 1926, Lopez returned home, alive and well. He had been living in a village 70 miles away the entire time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_of_Cuenca
https://redd.it/1gyx1d9
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TIL Danny Lloyd (the child actor from The Shining) wasn't told that he was making a horror film in order to protect the actor. Danny was led to believe he was making a drama. He accidentally walked in on Jack Nicholson carrying an axe during one scene.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/27/danny-lloyd-the-kid-in-the-shining-i-was-promised-that-tricycle-after-filming-but-it-never-came
https://redd.it/1gyqi6e
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TIL that scientists weren't able to synthesize human growth hormone up until the mid 80s, so the hormone was extracted from the deceased.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30378778/
https://redd.it/1gyaing
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TIL the Japanese government gifted Dr. Yamanaka, known for his work on induced pluripotent stem cells, 160,000 yen for a washing machine after he won the Nobel Prize, as he mentioned in an interview, "I was in the middle of repairing my washing machine when I heard the news."
https://ja-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E4%B8%AD%E4%BC%B8%E5%BC%A5?_x_tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc#%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E8%B3%9E%E5%8F%97%E8%B3%9E%E5%BE%8C
https://redd.it/1gxt675
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TIL about Operation Tiger, a training exercise that was supposed to prepare U.S. troops for the D-Day invasion of Normandy and resulted in the deaths of 946 American servicemen.
https://wargaming.com/en/news/disastrous_exercise_tiger/
https://redd.it/1gy0dq6
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TIL all 3 children of french striker Antoine Griezmann were born on the same date but different years
https://www.marca.com/en/football/barcelona/2021/04/08/606f139dca47414e1c8b4571.html
https://redd.it/1gxxjv8
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TIL that Martha Stewart did not go to prison for insider trading. She was charged and found guilty of lying to the FBI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Stewart
https://redd.it/1gy7mzt
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TIL Sir Ridley Scott was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 for his contributions to British cinema and, in 2024, was appointed a Knight Grand Cross by King Charles III, the highest rank of knighthood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridley_Scott
https://redd.it/1gzm0gy
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TIL about Dyers Burgers, who have been using the same grease to cook for over 100 years
https://www.southernliving.com/travel/tennessee/dyers-burgers-memphis-history
https://redd.it/1gzujel
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TIL that despite the popularity and huge cult following of the movie Idiocracy it only made $495,303 gross at the box office, with a production budget of $2.4M.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy#:~:text=Despite%20its%20lack%20of%20a,since%20become%20a%20cult%20film
https://redd.it/1gze5wf
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TIL Stephen Hawking’s speech-generating device used a default American accent because he preferred it over a British one. Even when offered a modernized voice, he stuck with it, calling it his “trademark” and joking it made him sound more authoritative.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking
https://redd.it/1gzmpjg
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TIL there is a plane that flies above Los Angeles every single day releasing tens of thousands of sterile fruit flies to combat the invasive Mediterranean Fruit Fly.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/millions-of-fruit-flies-will-be-dumped-on-los-angeles/
https://redd.it/1gzoem6
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TIL of the phenomenon known as "Twin Films," in which two movie studios simultaneously release the same type of movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_films
https://redd.it/1gyhttj
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TIL the 1994 to 1998 North Korean Famine (AKA The Arduous March or March of Suffering) killed between 240,000 and 3.5 million people and lead to the terms "Hunger" and "Famine" being banned in NK Media
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s_North_Korean_famine
https://redd.it/1gytrls
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TIL in order to inform shoppers in Mexico about poor nutritional content in prepackaged foods, the law states that packages containing foods with excess levels of calories, sugars, saturated fat, or containing caffeine or sweeteners must be labeled with large octagonal warnings exposing these facts.
https://www.nycfoodpolicy.org/mexico-to-require-nutritional-warnings-on-front-of-package-labeling/
https://redd.it/1gywrnk
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TIL at the 2005 London Marathon, Paula Radcliffe, in desperate need of a toilet break during the race, stopped by the roadside in full view of the crowd and live TV cameras to defecate. She still won with a time of 2:17:42, a world's best time for a women's only race by over a minute at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Radcliffe#2005:_Marathon_World_Champion
https://redd.it/1gyozs4
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TIL of Pedro Filho, a vigilante serial killer who is the inspiration behind Dexter Morgan in the Books and Series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Rodrigues_Filho
https://redd.it/1gywuum
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TIL that Christopher Lee holds the record for most on-screen character deaths at 61, out of 200 appearances. Sean Bean has only died on-screen 25 times
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/559335-most-deaths-in-a-movie-career
https://redd.it/1gy6jed
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TIL that the method of counting how many weeks a woman is pregnant starts from the first day of a woman's last period, *not* the date of conception, which can differ by up to 5 weeks.
https://www.parents.com/how-many-months-pregnant-am-i-2760090
https://redd.it/1gy2d0q
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TIL Pinkerton detective agency, the main antagonists is Red Dead redemption 2, are a real company founded in 1850 that still exists today, and they tried to sue Rockstar games for copyright infringement for using their name. Companies like Amazon and Starbucks have used Pinkerton for union busting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_(detective_agency)#Modern_era
https://redd.it/1gycohd
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TIL that in the Polish edition of Scrabble, the letter "Z" is only worth 1 point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions
https://redd.it/1gy4p2k
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TIL: A site manager's failed attempt to free a stuck flatbed truck resulted in it rolling off a cliff, blocking a railway tunnel just as an express train was approaching, leading to a crash that killed 49 people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Hualien_train_derailment
https://redd.it/1gx3own
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