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What did you learn today? Share it with us!

We learn something new every day. This is a community dedicated to informing each other and helping to spread knowledge.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)

Rule 1- All posts must begin with TIL. Linking to a source of info is optional, but highly recommended as it helps to spark discussion.

** Posts must be about an actual fact that you have learned, but it doesn't matter if you learned it today. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.**

Rule 2- Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.

Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.

Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.

Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.

Rule 6- Regarding non-TIL posts.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-TIL posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.

If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.

For further explanation, clarification and feedback about this rule, you may follow this link.

Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.

Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.

Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.

Unless included in our Whitelist for Bots, your bot will not be allowed to participate in this community. To have your bot whitelisted, please contact the moderators for a short review.

Partnered Communities

You can view our partnered communities list by following this link. To partner with our community and be included, you are free to message the moderators or comment on a pinned post.

Community Moderation

For inquiry on becoming a moderator of this community, you may comment on the pinned post of the time, or simply shoot a message to the current moderators.

What did you learn today? Share it with us!

We learn something new every day. This is a community dedicated to informing each other and helping to spread knowledge.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)

Rule 1- All posts must begin with TIL. Linking to a source of info is optional, but highly recommended as it helps to spark discussion.

** Posts must be about an actual fact that you have learned, but it doesn't matter if you learned it today. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.**

Rule 2- Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.

Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.

Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.

Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.

Rule 6- Regarding non-TIL posts.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-TIL posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.

If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.

For further explanation, clarification and feedback about this rule, you may follow this link.

Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.

Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.

Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.

Unless included in our Whitelist for Bots, your bot will not be allowed to participate in this community. To have your bot whitelisted, please contact the moderators for a short review.

Partnered Communities

You can view our partnered communities list by following this link. To partner with our community and be included, you are free to message the moderators or comment on a pinned post.

Community Moderation

For inquiry on becoming a moderator of this community, you may comment on the pinned post of the time, or simply shoot a message to the current moderators.

Welcome to the nostalgia-filled piefed instance of yesteryear.

Open Registration with Application questionnaire.

If you have a question or comment you can post in !meta@retrofed.com or message @DosDude@retrofed.com or @Die4Ever@retrofed.com

In case of downtime and/or emergency, we will post updates on @DosDude@mastodon.social

Some rules we try to uphold:

Be civil. Bigotry is not welcome. This includes (but is not limited to): transphobia, queerphobia, racism, ageism and ableism. We do not promote hate.
Communities need to be Retro or Retro-adjacent.
Please don't upload pornographic content. (use an external image host for that)

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TIL the longest field goal kick belongs to Cam Little of the Jacksonville Jaguars vs Las Vegas Raiders. It was a kick of 68 yards. (en.wikipedia.org)	1	Don_Dickle	7	Tue Jun 9, 2026 1:54 am »
TIL Arkansas was not originally the Natural state it went by The Bear State and Toothpick State and lastly the Rackensack state. (www.nwahomepage.com)	1	Don_Dickle	16	Sat Jun 6, 2026 5:38 am »
The earliest known reference to the "Windy City" was actually to Green Bay in 1856. (en.wikipedia.org)	2	Don_Dickle	14	Sat Jun 6, 2026 4:17 am »
TIL Writing in Egypt was 'invented' around 3250 BC to organise the distribution and storage of goods. (www.britishmuseum.org)	3	Don_Dickle	57	Sat Jun 6, 2026 5:58 am »
TIL that the world’s most valuable banknotes meant for public circulation are the $10,000 Singapore and Brunei Dollar bills (en.wikipedia.org)	4	Don_Dickle	34	Sat Jun 6, 2026 1:46 pm »
TIL it takes roughly 600 to 800 grapes to make a standard bottle of wine (willorch.com)	40	Don_Dickle	260	Mon Jun 8, 2026 10:05 am »
TIL it takes about 100lbs of force to rupture a testical. (drsuemilstein.medium.com)	4	Don_Dickle	17	Sat Jun 6, 2026 1:27 pm »
TIL that the United States was selling raw materials to Nazi Germany in the middle of the battle of kursk in 1943 (oblongmedia.net)	35	Tolc	175	Sat Jun 6, 2026 8:26 pm »
TIL Paul Reiser who played Burke in Aliens was so hated that his sister hit him during the films premiere and his mother approved (www.moviemistakes.com)	8	stenAanden	34	Sat Jun 6, 2026 12:17 am »
TIL the stop motion film industry is propped up by one rich kid (www.youtube.com) [ Goto page: 1, 2, 3 ]	118	stenAanden	492	Mon Jun 8, 2026 12:56 am »
TIL: That in 2021 almost 50% of adult Canadians struggle with literacy (www.cbc.ca)	23	Riverview_Legal	123	Mon Jun 8, 2026 8:28 pm »
TIL one of the Unabomber's victims had a six-year correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein. (en.wikipedia.org) [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	59	potoooooooo 🥔	408	Tue Jun 9, 2026 3:06 pm »
TIL the cost of transporting energy around (feddit.org)	21	Aniki	46	Sat Jun 6, 2026 1:12 am »
TIL there is a movie named Ooga Booga. Ooga Booga follows an African American medical student who is brutally murdered by a cop, but his soul is magically transferred into an action figure (www.imdb.com)	6	Valuy	50	Wed Jun 3, 2026 3:12 pm »
TIL the Celts once lived in a large part of europe (en.wikipedia.org)	6	ManfredMumpitz	68	Tue Jun 16, 2026 8:51 am »
TIL Rave Ramsy fired one of his employees over premarital sex (www.nbcnews.com)	41	Possibly linux	146	Wed Jun 3, 2026 6:23 am »
TIL Porto, Portugal's official name is The Ancient, Very Noble, Ever Loyal and Undefeated City of Porto (en.wikipedia.org)	17	Stamau123	162	Tue Jun 2, 2026 6:13 pm »
TIL about industrial electric heating technologies (feddit.org)	0	Aniki	39	Sun May 31, 2026 10:48 pm »
(This post is being modified)	0	Kat	0	Sun May 31, 2026 10:13 pm »
TIL about the Spark-gap transmitter (en.wikipedia.org)	3	jaykrown	38	Tue Jun 2, 2026 4:04 pm »
@til Today I learned that the first Xerox copier regularly caught fire, so they shipped it with a fire extinguisher	5	Kat	61	Wed Jun 3, 2026 12:28 am »
TIL about Hormesis. small doses of toxins can be good (en.wikipedia.org)	6	Aniki	65	Fri May 29, 2026 2:11 pm »
TIL that the U.S. Congress has its own intelligence agency (www.kenklippenstein.com)	9	Wudi	75	Tue Jun 16, 2026 8:55 am »
TIL: Peter Jackson made the decision to model one of the orc leader's face mask after Harvey Weinstein (www.theguardian.com)	48	𝜯𝐞𝐡 𝜝𝐚𝐦𝐬𝐤𝐢	492	Sat May 30, 2026 4:45 am »
TIL about the Nikon F (en.wikipedia.org)	10	jaykrown	39	Sat May 30, 2026 12:38 am »