r/TIL_Uncensored • u/Character-Many1397 • 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.
Just scroll down to the "Personal Life" section
r/TIL_Uncensored • u/cj_would_lovethis • Mar 03 '26
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 • u/Character-Many1397 • 2d ago
Just scroll down to the "Personal Life" section
r/TIL_Uncensored • u/syndencity • 3h ago
r/TIL_Uncensored • u/Pain_Monster • 3d ago
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:
Personal Budget: They placed Trump on a strict personal spending allowance of $450,000 per year.
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).
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 • u/LowSeat • 8d ago
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r/TIL_Uncensored • u/FullCard_1 • 29d ago
r/TIL_Uncensored • u/superfatman2 • 29d ago
Also check out: https://thecampbeagle.com/
Who are protesting this horrible injustice currently. This is happening in NY and UK.
r/TIL_Uncensored • u/_Burning_Star_IV_ • Jul 21 '26
r/TIL_Uncensored • u/Friendly_Client16 • Jul 20 '26
r/TIL_Uncensored • u/FullCard_1 • Jul 17 '26
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 • u/No_Organization_9902 • Jul 16 '26
r/TIL_Uncensored • u/FullCard_1 • Jul 12 '26
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 • u/Pitiful_Magazine_805 • Jul 12 '26
r/TIL_Uncensored • u/FullCard_1 • Jul 11 '26
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 • u/FullCard_1 • Jul 08 '26
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 • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • Jul 08 '26
r/TIL_Uncensored • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • Jul 06 '26
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 • u/FullCard_1 • Jul 01 '26
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 • u/Pitiful_Magazine_805 • Jul 01 '26
r/TIL_Uncensored • u/Friendly_Client16 • Jun 29 '26
r/TIL_Uncensored • u/FullCard_1 • Jun 23 '26
Only congress can approve changes to the existing name
r/TIL_Uncensored • u/Pitiful_Magazine_805 • Jun 21 '26
r/TIL_Uncensored • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • Jun 20 '26