TIL that the guy who played Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs is also the guy who played Captain Stottlemeyer in Monk. 13yr ⋅ Neon25 ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL I learned that the 5 golden rings in the classic christmas song The 12 days of Christmas aren't actually rings at all.14yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL Listerine was an antiseptic, then a floor cleaner, then a cure for gonorrhea. Oh, then mouthwash.14yr ⋅ rauxboat ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL KFC's Honey Sauce only has 7% Honey. (Honey is the 5th Ingredient!)13yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL Benjamin Franklin was the youngest son.... so was his father, grandfather, great-grandfather....14yr ⋅ maicull ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL there's a bunch of planets just beyond Neptune that I've never heard of. Makemake? Quaoar Weywot? It's like something out of Sci-Fi14yr ⋅ One_Giant_Nostril ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL That you can type \\quadratic in MS Word and it will put the quadratic equation in for you.14yr ⋅ Kitosaki ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL who that girl is whose face is all over the 'net with Breaking News14yr ⋅ HeavyPetter ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that in 1988 Ralston Cereals made a cereal called Nintendo Cereal System. It consisted of a Mario bag of cereal and a Zelda bag of cereal.14yr ⋅ dcusher2006 ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL asparagus will continue growing if you stick it in water. These were all the same height three days ago. 14yr ⋅ housepaint ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL pressing Shift+Esc in Chrome brings up a task manager for the browser. Am I way behind on finding this?14yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL facebook isn't ruining quite everything; videos embedded in comments13yr ⋅ Vainmatt ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL when I drink a 20 ounce bottle of Coke I am drinking 1.77 shots of sugar.13yr ⋅ ifuonlyknew ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that there are families in India who have to live in 2 m2 small fishing boats because they're so poor13yr ⋅ DangerousDetlef ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that Carlsberg beer used to have a Swastika in its logo before it became associated with the Nazis in the 1930's.14yr ⋅ inari87 ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL Stephen Colbert was on the 2004 Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode The Saint13yr ⋅ HeavyTank ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL Jimmy Stewart was a fucking general in the air force. Today's movie stars are pathetic compared to him. 14yr ⋅ pylit ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that is is indeed possible to be too fast and/or too furious.15yr ⋅ jhontheunmortal ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL the peace symbol comes for the semaphore symbols for N and D. N for Nuclear, D for Disarmament15yr ⋅ murderlicious ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that western beer bottles fit perfectly inside pilsner glasses (repost from r/til :S)14yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL you can purchase 16TB of extra space for emails, docs and pictures from Google for USD$4096 per year15yr ⋅ andrewinmelbourne ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that Google really seems to care about your privacy...well at least your social networking privacy...15yr ⋅ hong_kong_phooey ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL: The probability that you exist, as you, today is estimated to be about 1 : 10^2,685,000.13yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL You can type tracking numbers into Google and it will bring up your shipment.14yr ⋅ brn2drv99 ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that Macho Man Randy Savage played minor league baseball for the Reds [xpost from r/baseball]14yr ⋅ HanshinFan ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL if Greenland's ice were to be removed, there would be a massive lake in the center.13yr ⋅ NorthByNorthwest ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL Google just e-mails me every once in a while to remind me about which services have access to sensitive information, such as my location. Thanks, Google! 13yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that the address bar in Google Chrome can do simple arithmetic 14yr ⋅ UNDIAGNOSEDTOURETTES ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that Family Radio has bought billboard advertisements in Germany, The UK and the Netherlands to announce the End of the World on May 21st.14yr ⋅ loubandy ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL: The Scots and Irish carve jack-o-lanterns from turnips (rutabagas) which look much scarier than the USA's pumpkins. Very skullish indeed.14yr ⋅ moneybadger ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL Waldo (of Where's Waldo? fame), is named 'Charlie' in France.14yr ⋅ carbohydrate ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL if you press cmd-ctrl-D while hovering over a word in OS X, you get a pop-up dictionary (and thesaurus).14yr ⋅ fluffyguy ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building has a fresco depicting Washington becoming a god 13yr ⋅ n8quick ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL in Back to the Future the name of the mall changes due to Marty's actions in the past13yr ⋅ Jakeysuave ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL: George Takei starred in a movie about the Vietnam war with John Wayne.13yr ⋅ theghoul ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that in french ads these girls were supposed to have fat complex.13yr ⋅ Apone426 ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that Brad Garret from Everybody Loves Raymond was also the voice of the larger dog on the 1990's tv show '2 Stupid Dogs'.13yr ⋅ Plastic_Indian ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL The tops of UPS trucks are white to prevent the inside from heating up.13yr ⋅ Bamx32 ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that you can remove text formatting (color, size...) in GMail (from copied text, etc.)14yr ⋅ etnik ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL the snow fortress in Inception was designed after a real building, the Geisel Library at UCSD14yr ⋅ BJH1412 ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Bruno, Ali G) is playing Freddie Mercury in an upcoming film about his life.13yr ⋅ madeanewaccountt ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL there's a plaque in Iowa for the future birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk 14yr ⋅ roger_ ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL The origins of Ridley Scott's Alien...from HR Gigers Necronomicon (PIC)14yr ⋅ hi_im_nick ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL George Lucas put an C-3PO/R2-D2 Easter Egg into the hieroglyphics of a scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. 15yr ⋅ roland19d ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that it took 28 attempts to photograph Dali Atomicus. Poor kitties!14yr ⋅ dishie ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that Googling ascii art changes the Google logo to actual ascii art14yr ⋅ Neil_Tyson_is_god ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL Donnie Wahlberg played 'Vincent Grey', the character who shoots Bruce Willis at the beginning of The Sixth Sense.14yr ⋅ sandy_balls ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL a moth found in a computer at Harvard in 1947 is where we get the term Debugging14yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/todayilearned
When I learned that these were edible, I made a point of eating every single one.14yr ⋅ mouseteeth ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL That Reddit rule over a HUGE part of the Sci-Fi MMO galaxy of EVE online, with over 4500 members, under the name TEST ALLIANCE PLEASE IGNORE14yr ⋅ k0kak0la ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that Rolling Stone Magazine was actually named after the song Rollin' Stone by Muddy Waters14yr ⋅ pwnzzz ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL if you double-click the solitaire icon fast enough you can open two games with the exact same deal.14yr ⋅ tededit ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that the icon for TextEdit on mac has the here's to the crazy ones ad written on it.14yr ⋅ avsa ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL in 1995 Taco Bell rejected the idea of the Dorito Taco. The world wasn't ready.10yr ⋅ harris0n11 ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL Ridley Scott originally planned to end Alien by having the alien bite off Ripley's head in the escape shuttle, sit in her chair, and then start speaking with her voice in a message to Earth. 14yr ⋅ thesilent30 ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL than a pinned Gmail tab has a subtle animated glow to it when there's new mail. 14yr ⋅ bluehsh ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that the Michelin Man is 117 years old and used to look even more unsettling14yr ⋅ theodolite ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that staplers have two settings. One for permanent fastening and one for temporary binding (called pinning) e.g. for working with fabrics.14yr ⋅ SubversiveLove ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL If you click the name of the month on the calendar that pops up in Windows VISTA, it becomes a list of months, then years, then decades.14yr ⋅ thebigbradwolf ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL Korean writing uses a system that illustrates how to pronounce the character. Very neat.14yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL scratch tickets have codes that can reveal you have lost before fully scratching.14yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL learned Facebook's phone number. In case you are as annoyed with them as I am right now (pick any of a slew of reasons) , here it is...15yr ⋅ drewbic ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that the original Ronald McDonald was possibly the scariest clown I have ever seen...15yr ⋅ Brain_statiC ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that Asian women never age, this is my college professor in a span of 20 years14yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL what happens to a glass pitcher when you pour boiling water into it14yr ⋅ ToBlayyyve ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that H.R. Giger, the designer of the Alien in Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic, sketched a new scissor-like Batmobile for Batman Forever that was not used.13yr ⋅ rubix_evans ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL Max from 'Kazaam' is 28. Here's a more recent photo. God, he's fucked.14yr ⋅ ramynoodles ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL: There are huge patches of garbage floating in the ocean, called 'gyres'!14yr ⋅ brockadile ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL You can remove items from your browsing history on Amazon. This means that you can stop the suggestions for that thing you looked at just one time.13yr ⋅ deadlywoodlouse ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that actress Julia Roberts was once almost raped by an Orangutan.13yr ⋅ frozey91 ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that the Fiat factory in Turin had a test track on its roof.14yr ⋅ sonordrums135 ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL when you turn 18, on facebook, instead of it saying Tim is now 18 is says Tim is now a man.14yr ⋅ Sagerian ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that the candy Smarties is made in Canada. They're pretty good, eh?14yr ⋅ atonyatlaw ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that if you let M&M's melt in your mouth, blue is the dominant color14yr ⋅ nick898 ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that it would take 2.5 days to drive around the Texas border.13yr ⋅ discipula_vitae ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL there is a museum in Spain that shows two T. Rex skeletons having sex11yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL that James Bond's family crest motto (from Her Majesty's Secret Service) reads The World is Not Enough14yr ⋅ cyborgcommando0 ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL Young people in the Soviet Union would record Western music on discarded x-ray plates, called rock on bones. This is Heartbreak Hotel. (x-post from r/pics)14yr ⋅ strangenotastranger ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL the logo for Tostito's chips has two people sharing a chip and dip15yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL you can drag files from the download bar to file upload controls on webpages in Chrome15yr ⋅ ZoFreX ⋅ r/todayilearned
TIL there is an obelisk commemorating the Trinity Nuclear Test Site. 14yr ⋅ Weakgrip ⋅ r/todayilearned
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