#TodayILearned

[taraross-1787]

This Day in History: George Washington Starts a War. Sort of.

On this day in 1754, a young George Washington receives a message as he leads a Virginian regiment in an area near modern-day Pittsburgh. The contents of that message would soon push him into his first combat.

The incident was one factor that helped trigger the French and Indian War.

That war occurred roughly two decades before our war for independence. The dispute in those days centered on the Ohio Country. Who would own and control that land? The French? Or the English?

Twenty-two-year-old George Washington sat squarely in the middle of the dispute.

FULL STORY: https://www.taraross.com/post/tdih-george-washington-first-combat

[crabnebuelar]

#todayilearned that boobs are called boob because of the way they boob up and down

[eric-sadahire]

I love how the ocean is 85% filled with weird little freaks...

Today I learned that there is such a thing as a Tasselled Wobblegong Fox Shark and I need to share it with you all.

[factretriever]

Weird animal facts! How many of these did you know?

[showfayjewel]

2 Piercing Styling! #earstack #todayilearned #piercingcheck #fashionhack

[reaverdasnack]

Amazon doesn't update your address on your wishlist when you change your default address for deliveries

[pianotrees]

i was so disappointed when i learned silverback gorilla backs had "hair" and not silver

what is this sh*t

[lostindamist]

i rlly hope my story isnt a tragedy

[slugass]

the advantages of hyperfixating on a character who is an anthropromorphic object/animal/whatever:

you google things about said object/creature/thingggg bc you like being reminded of that character, and you google fun facts about that thing and learn cool shit about it

[kountadjo]

"Blazing Fast, Bulletproof Secure: Your Ultimate VPN" #security #youtu...

[dracodoll]

two days ago i learned i have a half sister who’s 37 👍👍👍👍

[crtter]

OK so, Know Your Meme claims that the spread of Bouba and Kiki as a meme started in December 14th, 2020, right?

That, however, is not true. Bouba and Kiki had been discussed online before, I mean, obviously, given that it’s a linguistics experiment from the 1920s. For example, it was posted about on Reddit’s r/todayilearned as early as 13 years ago:

One of the things that definitely gave the terms more exposure was Tom Scott’s video on the experiment, dating from the 24th of August 2020:

However! If you search “bouba and kiki” meme online, you might come across an interesting result:

Which is a repost of a Tumblr thread on Instagram from 2021. You might recognize the handsome gentleman with the Iyami icon yapping without being invited to about a subject they sorta know about to @tilthat in the screenshot. That’s me.

Now, you won’t find this post on Tumblr itself because -and this is pretty ironic- @tilthat, a bot-ran blog that reposted threads from r/todayilearned on Reddit in Tumblr post form, eventually got banned for some unknown reason and, for some even more unknown reason, while you can still see some of their posts still around even with the OP having been deactivated, some of them have been completely nuked off Tumblr, this one being one of them. So I can’t check when exactly it was that I added my overenthusiastic reply to this post. But it got some traction with me in it. In fact, this is a repost of a repost. The OG repost was on r/Tumblr on Reddit:

That’s also where my favorite repost of it, on cheezburger.com of “can I haz” fame, came from:

And, hilariously enough, as you can see by the date, these reposts beat Tom Scott in shining a little spotlight over Bouba and Kiki by exactly one day. So he might have released the beast into the world, but I birthed it. Accidentally.

[astrobiscuits]

Astro observations part 6

🪻Individuals with Sun in Taurus degrees (2,14,26) are always thinking about money - how they can earn more money, what to spend it on. If it's in Scorpio or conjuncts Pluto, they'll often lie about how much money they actually have just to profit off of you. You'll often hear them say "I don't have any money" but secretly have stash of money hidden in their house

🪻Not only do Aquarius Suns have a lot of friends, they also befriend the shy/awkward/forgotten kid (me). I haven't noticed this with other Sun signs

🪻People with Venus in Leo/Leo degrees (5,17,29) often get complimented on their thick hair

🪻Asteroid Fraga (1105) conjuncting any of your planets/angles/nodes indicates your love for strawberries lol

🪻 Check your Moon in Webb (3041) Persona chart. It gives you more insight on the type of content you like to consume on the internet. You can also take into consideration the degree of your Moon

Aries 🌙 - *watches sports matches live*; *laughs at stupid, childish memes *

Taurus 🌙 - the one who always searches for tutorials; "how to bake lava cake", "how to remove a stripped screw"; hmm, maybe i should move *searches houses for sale*;

Gemini 🌙 - *watches memes*, doesn't care what kind of meme it is as long as it's a meme; *scrolls endlessly on r/todayilearned*

Cancer 🌙 - *watches baby videos*; the type that reads family drama posted on reddit, but also regularly checks what their own relatives post on social media

Leo 🌙 - the newest tea on their fav celebrities; they're the first to know what Zendaya ate this morning, where Tom Hanks went on vacation yesterday and if Kylie Jenner is pregnant again; awww a kitty *ends up in an endless loophole of cat videos*

Virgo 🌙 - "declutter with me" videos, "clean with me" videos; *checks their fav blog every day*; *watches workout videos while working out*; *checks e-mails 20 times a day*; ugh, i need to take a break *watches pet videos*

Libra 🌙 - "get ready with me for..." videos, "OOTD" videos, make-up tutorials; their pinterest is full of outfit inspo and aesthetic house decor; "red/green flags in a guy/girl" videos, "first date do's and don'ts" videos

Scorpio 🌙 - *watches every true crime documentary out there*; "Michael Jackson spirit box session"; time to do the deed *watches p8rn*

Sagittarius 🌙 - *saves bible verses all the time*; searches "how to manifest everything you want", obsessed with Neville Goddard content (i'm so sorry, i'm guilty of this); *decides to go on a spontaneous trip, so they end up watching travel videos*

Capricorn 🌙 - the type that doesn't use the internet for entertainment much; actually, you'd be surprised by how little they use their phone compared to the average person; probably has a daily time limit set on their phones, *reads memoirs and biographies*,

Aquarius 🌙 - twitch is their life basically; if they're not watching someone play a video game, then they're playing a video game; *follows LGBTQ+ content during pride month*

Pisces 🌙 - they're listening to music 24/7, has a playlist for every mood they're going through, *watches tangled for the 7th time in a row*; actually, they're always watching a tv series if not for a disney movie

🪻I noticed that most film directors (Hitchcock, Kubrick, Tarantino) have got Neptune in Gemini or Neptune in Gemini degrees (3,15,27). Besides Hitchcock, they also don’t have any aspect between Neptune and Mercury

[dervlaann]

This and more here: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1lfdmol/til_that_the_stanley_cup_has_been_pissed_in/

[lizbethborden]

Stupid women, you obviously haven't read enough facts on Reddit. 😏 if you even browsed r/TodayILearned for five seconds, you'd find out that the ACTUAL victims of domestic abuse, religious oppression, reproductive control, economic disenfranchisement, and political exclusion throughout history were MEN. You have no perspective because you only like pop feminism and don't think with nuance and you get all your information from streaming adaptations of Margaret Atwood books. Me? I'm on r/interestingasfuck, making sure to educate the masses on how the Salem witch trials were caused by ergotism.

[maaarine]

r/todayilearned: TIL that over 75% of girls who compete in cross country and track slow down after age 14, often peaking at age 12-13 before plateauing and declining.