Til Posts facts
While investigating facts about Til Posts, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Contrary to popular belief, Jerry Maren was not the last surviving Wizard of Oz cast member; he was the last one with a speaking role. An actor for a Winkie guard survived til late 2018, and Dorothy's own dance stunt double is still alive as of this posting.
Despite widespread media reporting and TIL posts, the most recent scientific evidence suggests Komodo Dragons DO NOT in fact possess or use venom, nor bacterial infection, to overcome and bring down prey. They kill through ambush attacks and laceration, resulting in trauma and heavy blood loss.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 35 of the best facts about Til Posts I managed to collect.
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A Scottish Town’s post office has a dog for ‘free stamp licks’.
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that the actual deadliest job in America is ... President (4 assassinated out of 44 men who've held the post)
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A post on TIL's front page can bring 45,000 people to a wikipedia article in one day.
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Daniel Radcliffe visited my Daniel Radcliffe TIL post and used it in a YouTube video! It is the one about him wearing the same clothes for six months.
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Twitter user @WhatTheFFacts goes on TIL and steals people's posts.
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Half the people who post in TIL didn't really learn it today
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If you read a TIL post for the first time you can repost it without feeling guilty because technically, it's true
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The Drew Carey Show theme was done by none other than The Presidents of the USA, and there are a lot of TIL Drew Carey posts.
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I made a TIL post recently about how the Blue Star Line is planning on making a Titanic II. Four days ago they posted this animated video about it.
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People don't usually actually look at the links attached to til posts.
What is true about til posts?
You can easily fact check it by examining the linked well-known sources.
[TIL]Morning Post, a conservative British newspaper, raised a hefty sum of "26,000 pounds" for the benefit of General Reginald Dyer, the man behind the dreadful Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
A very popular series of videos on YouTube of a White man meeting an "Uncontacted tribe", is actually highly disputed and may at least partly be fake or manipulated. Explanation in comments. Because apparently TIL won't allow Text Posts. - source
The best time to post to TIL is 9:00 AM Eastern (on the weekend).(I know i missed it). - source
Reddit's TIL can be learned by a machine. A bot, trained from previous posts, was created to mine Wikipedia for new content and has been on the front page multiple times.
The TIL mods will remove posts they deem to be 'misleading', even when they are actually well sourced, generate good discussion, and are upvoted to >4000 by the TIL community - source
The majority of TIL posts cite Wikipedia as a source.
Everything in Reddit's TIL section is basically a repost of a wiki article posted elsewhere. Everything in Reddit's TIL section is basically a repost of a wiki article posted elsewhere.
That O.J. Simpson's first movie role was in an unfinished 1969 counterculture western called "The Dream of Hamish Mose", about some post-Civil War Buffalo Soldiers attempting to lay their friend to rest in a sacred burial ground. The production was heavily troubled, and the movie was shelved.
You can't post photos to TIL, only links
TIL deleted a user submission about Bill Clinton bombing Iraq in 1993 because "Hilary is still active, so TILs about Bill can't be posted."
Your thread can be locked on TIL if you post any information on Israel
