We're here to add to our "Today I Learned ..." lists.
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Today, I learned Richard Marx restrained a guy on a plane.
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Today I learned that the WWE has some really great benefits.
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Today I Learned: Climate — You can't really argue with MIT scientists.
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Today I learned they've all been there for more than 100 days.
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Today I learned there's a live-cam of the world's longest (known) burning lightbulb.
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"I'd say today I learned from Felix's loss, having three match points," Shapovalov said.
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Today I learned that my departure is on the 24th of the month — in two days.
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" "Today, I learned that my parents record CSPAN, all day, every single day we are in session.
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Today, I learned The Verge has never written a single post that so much as mentions Animorphs.
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Today I learned about a similar product called Kushion that's a pillow speaker that plays music aloud.
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For example, today I learned that the eels in the River Thames — there are eels in the Thames?
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Today I learned that the winner of the INDY 500 race is given a bottle of milk to drink.
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" Sánchez elaborated later in a statement, saying, "Earlier today I learned that my husband is facing charges in Connecticut.
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Well today I learned that Dick Van Dyke played the old man in the bank in the original Mary Poppins!
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Today I learned that if you add Eric Trump to enough Twilight promotional photos he will eventually block you pic.twitter.
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Today I learned that you need to remove the RADIATOR CAP to add coolant to your engine, so that was helpful.
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And today I learned you shouldn't just assume that the leader of your country doesn't have a thorough knowledge of quantum computing.
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Today I learned that vegan and gluten-free food tech is light years beyond where it was when I last checked in.
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The name is delightful to write into the grid and the clue is stellar in a "today I learned" kind of way.
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Today I learned that POTPIES can be written as a single word, and that CODFISH and COMMISH are only two letters apart.
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The Today I Learned subreddit — a forum within the website Reddit — is a quirky destination that highlights random and sometimes surprising facts.
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"Well today I learned that Dick Van Dyke played the old man in the bank in the original Mary Poppins!" one user wrote.
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Today I learned that rhinos are experts at finding Easter eggs, or least the rhinos who reside at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo are.
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Before the Internet became what it is today, I learned my makeup tips from books by Kevyn Aucoin, Laura Mercier, and Bobbi Brown.
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Today I learned, thanks to this good find from Rob Price, that the company has engineers assigned to the task of moderating internal employee discussions.
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Yeah, well, I say the other thing I learned, and it's really about our whole talk today, I learned from my mom, do not let someone else redefine you.
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Photo: Gordon Brandly (Flickr)Today, I learned that people—namely, the people I work with—do absolutely unthinkable shit to their computers, and that this is seemingly the norm.
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According to Thrillist, it did, however, occur to a Reddit user by the name of Ihatethemuffinman, which is why they recently posted the answer in the Today I Learned subreddit.
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Writer Anne Thériault recently pointed out a few on Twitter: Today I learned Cern's website has hundreds of typos referring to the Large Hadron Collider as the "Large Hardon Collider" pic.twitter.
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"A year ago today, I learned that nursing babies have ZERO rights in the eyes of family law," she wrote in a tweet to mark the anniversary of the court decision.
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"Today I learned that it is coming to our students' attention via social media that former coach and substitute teacher Greg Conte is a member of the 'alt-right' movement," Prebble wrote.
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"A year ago today, I learned that nursing babies have ZERO rights in the eyes of family law," Curtis wrote in a tweet from July 7, which marked the anniversary of the court decision.
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Update: Mckesson has clearly had a long day, but he has learned how the hacker infiltrated his account: Today I learned that it is rather easy for someone to call the provider & change your SIM.
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I like to think that I am more than proficient in my knowledge of hot beverages, but today I learned about a new one called HYSON tea, spelled as the plural in Ryan McCarty's puzzle.
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"Harold and Kumar go to White Castle" aside, there were some pop culture references that were probably lost on plenty of solvers, including myself, but fell squarely in the "Today I Learned" category that makes puzzles fun.
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Parts of the grid were challenging for me (today I learned that those poems and songs that seem obsessed with the dawn are called AUBADEs), and parts of it fell easily, enabling me to solve the rest of the grid.
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Today I learned about AMAZON ANTS, that ZZ TOP recorded the albums "Tres Hombres" and "El Loco" (I'm a latecomer to ZZ TOP) and that the object you insert into a tree to tap the sap is called a SPILE.
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I had BIRTH before ONSET for "Earliest stage, genesis" and today I learned that the ASPHODEL is a flower that played a role in Greek mythology and was the titular flower in a poem by William Carlos Williams, who wrote it when he wasn't busy eating cold plums.
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Today I learned that the Moulin Rouge is like Lip Sync Battle but without Chrissy Teigen or LL Cool J. (Bekah and Arie lip sync on stage, and, uh, that's it!) This gives way to the two-on-one, an awkward showdown that doesn't leave anyone with a good taste in their mouth.
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Out of frustration, he wrote about his experience on Reddit, in a thread titled: "[Today I Learned] that someone can change your Facebook email, password, and two step verification just by asking Facebook to turn off login approvals, and sending in a fake ID." On Tuesday morning, after I reached out to Facebook about the incident, a spokesperson told me that the company had secured Thompson's accounts and pages, and they were working to reestablish his regular access.
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