Lessons in everyday life, courtesy of the Internet
Today I Learned (TIL) about Survivorship Bias or survivor bias is a form of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility....
Today I learned (TIL), how cinnamon is harvested. For more TIL, see our latest posts here
by theinternettaughtme · Published December 31, 2021 · Last modified December 30, 2021
Today I Learned (TIL), that there are 20 million tons of gold in the sea 🌊. This gold is spread throughout the normal mineral content of seawater to the tune of “parts per trillion.” From the article, ‘As the NOAA...
Today I Learned (TIL) the phrase “drinking the kool-aid” comes from the Jonestown massacre: “people drank the cyanide-laced punch, which birthed the phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid,” referring to those who blindly and foolishly follow something.” For more TIL, click here....
Today I Learned (TIL), that the shaka or ‘hang loose’ gesture originated when a Hawaiian named Hamana Kalili lost his three middle fingers in a sugar mill accident. For more TIL, click here.
by theinternettaughtme · Published December 10, 2021 · Last modified December 8, 2021
Today I Learned (TIL), about a man named Mario Rigby who walked from Cape Town, South Africa, to Cairo, Egypt. It took him 2 years and he walked 7,456 miles. He trekked through eight countries — South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi,...
by theinternettaughtme · Published December 9, 2021 · Last modified December 8, 2021
TIL (Today I Learned), when Clint Eastwood was approached for the role of James Bond he turned it down because he didn’t feel it was the right role for him saying “I was offered pretty good money to do James...
by theinternettaughtme · Published December 7, 2021 · Last modified December 6, 2021
The term “Occam’s Razor” comes from a misspelling of the name William of Ockham. Ockham was a brilliant theologian, philosopher, and logician in the medieval period. Occam’s razor is a principle of theory construction or evaluation according to which, other things...
Today I Learned (TIL), Blueberries 🫐 are the only fruit named after a color. 🤔 More thought provoking TIL posts here.
by theinternettaughtme · Published November 27, 2021 · Last modified December 10, 2021
Today I Learned (TIL), that a pilot’s 16 year old son was allowed to sit at the plane’s cockpit of an Aeroflot flight while it was on autopilot. He disengaged the autopilot, triggering a series of events which led to...
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