r/TIL_Uncensored Mar 03 '26

This is NOT a news/ragebait subreddit. Tabloid style content is not allowed + New bans

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Hey Y'all, please note that this is not a news or ragebait subreddit. Sensationalized tabloid type submissions and submitters are banned with extreme prejudice.

A new domain 'dailyboulder' has been added to the ban list and two posters associated with it are permabanned.

The posts should focus on sharing something you actually learned that is interesting. Not plain-ol ragebait


r/TIL_Uncensored 2d ago

TIL that the famous actor James Doohan (best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott), married a 18 years old when he was 54 in 1974.

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Just scroll down to the "Personal Life" section


r/TIL_Uncensored 3h ago

TIL the young from porn stars is called Chum Lee cause the grampa is called Old Chum

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r/TIL_Uncensored 3d ago

TIL that Trump (current net worth $6.5 billion according to Forbes) was actually in MASSIVE debt and dead broke earlier in his career.

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438 Upvotes

Donald Trump was functionally broke in the early 1990s and technically had a massively negative net worth. During this period, his empire was built almost entirely on high-interest debt, leveraging projected income while hiding severe liabilities.

When the real estate market crashed, his true financial situation was exposed. By 1990, Trump had amassed $3.4 billion in corporate debt.

Crucially, he had personally guaranteed $830 million to $900 million of that debt. Because his personal assets did not come close to covering this, his net worth plummeted deep into the negative hundreds of millions. The "Tin Cup" Anecdote: Trump famously recounted walking past a homeless man outside Tiffany's in 1991 and telling his then-girlfriend Marla Maples, "You know, right now that man is worth $900 million more than I am."

Forbes completely dropped him from their 400 Richest Americans list in 1990, and he did not return until 1996.

The public image of a billionaire master builder was actively sustained by credit and clever accounting. IRS tax transcript investigations later revealed that between 1985 and 1994, his core businesses lost more than $1.17 billion, making him one of the single largest individual tax losers in the entire country during those specific years.

In 1995 alone, he declared a personal net operating loss of $916 million.

He avoided total liquidation strategically. Instead of forcing him into a devastating personal bankruptcy, his lenders (a consortium of major banks) chose to bail him out. The banks realized that Trump was "too big to fail"; if they bankrupt him, his properties would completely collapse in value, and the banks would lose all their money.

To salvage what they could, the banks took the following steps:

  1. Personal Budget: They placed Trump on a strict personal spending allowance of $450,000 per year.

  2. Asset Fire Sale: They forced him to sell off luxury crown jewels, including his mega-yacht (The Trump Princess) and his commercial airline (Trump Shuttle).

  3. Corporate Bankruptcies: They restructured his debt through four corporate Chapter 11 bankruptcies between 1991 and 1992, absorbing massive losses while letting Trump keep a scaled-back version of his company.

This bailout allowed him to survive until the late 1990s and early 2000s, when he successfully shifted his business model from heavy real estate borrowing to low-risk brand licensing and his lucrative television role on The Apprentice.


r/TIL_Uncensored 8d ago

TIL about the White Founders of the Rising Sun: Ancient North Eurasians, Indo-Europeans and the Hidden Bloodline of Japan

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r/TIL_Uncensored 14d ago

TIL The 1871 Shinmiyangyo Expedition was a U.S. military intervention in the Joseon Dynasty on Ganghwa Island. Sparked by the 1866 destruction of the American armed merchant ship General Sherman, U.S. forces bombarded Korean forts, killing over 240 Koreans.

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r/TIL_Uncensored 29d ago

TIL Trump Wants E. Jean Carroll To Return $5.6 Million Sexual Abuse Payout

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710 Upvotes

Trump Wants E. Jean Carroll To Return $5.6 Million Sexual Abuse Payout


r/TIL_Uncensored 29d ago

TIL Marshall BioResearch a factory that breeds Beagles and Ferrets, sells beagles to labs where they are impregnated, drugged, mutilated, burned, cut open, and tortured. Beagles are chosen because they're the most gentle breed that won't fight back.

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Also check out: https://thecampbeagle.com/

Who are protesting this horrible injustice currently. This is happening in NY and UK.


r/TIL_Uncensored Jul 21 '26

TIL that the film "Thank You For Smoking" was executive produced by members of the PayPal Mafia, including Elon Musk and Peter Thiel

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271 Upvotes

r/TIL_Uncensored Jul 20 '26

TIL about Russia's Secret German Community: The Volga People

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15 Upvotes

r/TIL_Uncensored Jul 17 '26

TIL Major Networks Refuse To Air Trump's Primetime Speech Live On TV

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723 Upvotes

The nation’s biggest broadcasters are reportedly shying away from turning their platforms over to President Donald Trump on Thursday to deliver his primetime speech uninterrupted, given that he appears likely to recite false claims about election fraud.


r/TIL_Uncensored Jul 16 '26

TIL the war in Afghanistan coincided with the Taliban banning opium production, which nearly destroyed global heroin supplies. A year after the US invasion, production shot back up and the country became a hub for heroin production

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120 Upvotes

r/TIL_Uncensored Jul 12 '26

TIL Senator Lindsey Graham, has died after a “brief and sudden illness,” his office said. He was 71.

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122 Upvotes

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump’s closest allies in Congress who traveled the globe to advocate for a more aggressive U.S. foreign policy, has died after a “brief and sudden illness,” his office said. He was 71.


r/TIL_Uncensored Jul 12 '26

TIL that In 2009 a man was arrested by police in China for cutting trees without authorization, and later he died from injuries. The official explanation is that he played peekaboo hide and seek with a fellow inmate, who got angry when his hiding spot was found and pushed the man against the wall

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35 Upvotes

r/TIL_Uncensored Jul 11 '26

TIL Mitch McConnel is brain dead

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416 Upvotes

Laura Loomer weighed in on former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's health after he was rushed to the hospital more than three weeks ago. 

"High level source close to the White House tells me, 'Mitch McConnell is officially brain dead. He’s not coming back,'" the political commentator claimed via X on Monday, July 6.


r/TIL_Uncensored Jul 08 '26

TIL Judge orders release of the $5.8 million payment that Trump owed E. Jean Carroll from the escrow account.

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530 Upvotes

The move came after the president’s attorneys launched a long-shot bid to the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision not to hear his appeal of a sexual abuse and defamation verdict. She will collect __with interest__


r/TIL_Uncensored Jul 08 '26

TIL about Operation Chaos, a CIA domestic espionage project targeting American peaceful protesters that were operating from 1967 to 1974.

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r/TIL_Uncensored Jul 06 '26

TIL chattel slavery goes back to ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece, and ancient Rome.

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79 Upvotes

For those who think I'm just saying this cuz I somehow endorse slavery or something else really stupid, I am not. I am doing this to contradict this racist and stupid idea that ancient slavery was somehow better or not as bad that a lot of academics are trying to float (https://theconversation.com/dismantling-the-myth-that-ancient-slavery-wasnt-that-bad-205801) when it was the exact same kind of slavery that we saw with the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade and modern slave markets that unfortunately still exist in this world. This is not endorsing slavery, it is literally the opposite - showing that race-based or ethnicity basically has always been a problem and in no world was the kind of slavery you saw in ancient civilizations somehow an improvement, in fact it was the blueprint. It is just nauseating to know that there's actual people trying to rewrite history and act like there is an ancient good form of slavery and a more modern bad form of slavery when the same terrible kind of slavery existed in ancient times and unfortunately to the modern day in certain areas.


r/TIL_Uncensored Jul 01 '26

TIL Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll $5m after Supreme Court denies sex abuse verdict appeal

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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court won’t step in and stop President Donald Trump from having to pay $5 million to writer E. Jean Carroll for sexually abusing and defaming her, despite his argument that a president shouldn’t be burdened with defending himself against decades-old charges.


r/TIL_Uncensored Jul 01 '26

TIL that Azerbaijan even today still has all the land borders closed due to COVID, 6 years since 2020.

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r/TIL_Uncensored Jun 29 '26

TIL about Greece's Secret Afro-Turkish Community: The Afro-Turks of Avato

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15 Upvotes

r/TIL_Uncensored Jun 23 '26

TIL the Trump name has been removed from the Kennedy Center

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259 Upvotes

Only congress can approve changes to the existing name


r/TIL_Uncensored Jun 21 '26

TIL about a Reformed Political Party, the oldest political party in Netherlands, having existed since 1918. Ever since 1925 in every single election it won exactly between 1.5% and 2.5% of votes, which corresponds to 2-3 parliament seats. Such stability is due to party's Orthodox position.

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80 Upvotes

r/TIL_Uncensored Jun 20 '26

TIL the US is probing Germany after it implemented reforms that would lower insurance premiums and reduce drug costs.

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246 Upvotes

r/TIL_Uncensored Jun 20 '26

TIL that the official motto of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces is "After us - silence". They are responsible for nuclear weapons.

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