/r/todayilearned - top ten submissions for each month of 2013
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2013, December
4869 TIL that a pound of any combination of dimes, q...
4453 TIL that reddit has spent a total of $500 on ad...
4432 TIL that William Whipple freed his slaves when ...
4277 TIL an Indian flight attendant hid the passport...
4263 TIL that under current South Korean laws if war...
3513 TIL The cost of college textbooks has risen 812...
3486 TIL Guinness World Records had to ban a certain...
3463 TIL many areas are using a beet juice and salt ...
3445 TIL that when George Washington passed away in ...
3340 TIL in 1995 Newsweek published an article scoff...
2013, November
4426 TIL that self-made millionaire Harris Rosen ado...
3738 TIL that in 2011, two men para-glided from the ...
3537 TIL Due to name confusion, staff of the Slovak ...
3482 TIL that during WWII, the Japanese invaded Alas...
3329 TIL there's a proposal to build an underground ...
3310 TIL that the company that makes the Etch a Sket...
3297 TIL that during World War II in Australia, ther...
3209 TIL that audio experts could not tell the diffe...
3153 TIL Awarding people money for doing well in IQ ...
3131 TIL on Titan the atmosphere is so thick and the...
2013, October
5082 TIL there's a experimental project in Stockholm...
4124 TIL since the 1990s, Carmel, Indiana has been r...
3450 TIL that the Tourette Syndrome Association rele...
3426 TIL the almost final words of writer Roald Dahl...
3395 TIL, after Rocky IV's release, a joke was makin...
3330 TIL: Rick Moranis was on board for a Spaceballs...
3288 TIL Newman's own foods donates 100% of its post...
3273 TIL the CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure make...
3184 TIL that despite having 70+ million viewers, Re...
3164 TIL there is a term for the opposite of "ambide...
2013, September
5365 TIL George Lucas allowed the band members of 'N...
5018 TIL that People were confused how a Chinese cou...
4918 TIL that 70% of the land in England is still ow...
4192 TIL That J.K. told Alan Rickman the end to Snap...
3899 TIL an African tribe still wears Victorian clot...
3596 TIL that the creator of NBA Jam hated the Chica...
3268 TIL Canada deemed "Third World" in Broadband In...
3228 TIL in 2005, Swedish millionaire Johan Eliasch ...
3212 TIL In 1818, an Englishman was accused of murde...
3205 TIL that if the Native Americans really did sel...
2013, August
5804 TIL that when Ichiro Suzuki learned the Seattle...
4777 TIL that 29% of San Francisco's air pollution c...
4321 TIL that the band D12 planned to find the 12 be...
4274 TIL the German government refuses to recognize ...
3911 TIL there is an ancient old growth forest borde...
3504 TIL In 1904, tea bags were invented accidentall...
3423 TIL That breast cancer survivors from all over ...
3305 TIL most Japanese schools don't have janitors. ...
3275 TIL 'Miami Vice' star Don Johnson once asked Hu...
3093 TIL after Pablo Escobar's death, the 4 hippos h...
2013, July
7145 TIL: (former) Billionaire Chuck Feeney has give...
4252 TIL that in some cities police officers were re...
3735 TIL that after FIJI Water ran an ad joking that...
3457 TIL when child actor Jackie Coogan turned 18 he...
3450 TIL The SEC was repeatedly and explicitly warne...
3355 TIL 28% of IT Professionals hide their career f...
3194 TIL the Cult Awareness Network listed Scientolo...
3191 TIL in 2009 an NY cop was placed in a psychiatr...
3192 TIL that The Shawshank Redemption's director an...
3153 TIL that Speedy Gonzales was fully removed from...
2013, June
5736 TIL that there is a company that provides priva...
5592 TIL a male tiger in India adopted a litter of o...
5093 TIL that cheetahs were almost wiped out by the ...
4196 TIL a man committed to a high-security psychiat...
3699 TIL that 12 African nations have come together ...
3378 TIL Blockbusters declined several offers to acq...
3338 TIL that Hugh Thomson, the man who during the V...
3317 TIL that Nikola Tesla was voluntarily chaste, d...
3230 TIL that Ernest Hemingway grew paranoid and tal...
3166 TIL The first time a Navajo baby laughs, the fa...
2013, May
4555 TIL George Zimmer, the owner and founder of The...
4380 TIL that some fruit spreads use 3 different typ...
3051 TIL during the Siege of Leningrad in WWII, 9 So...
3042 TIL A woman had a heart attack on a plane, when...
3034 TIL that lobsters are functionally immortal. Th...
2921 TIL Australian Bill Morgan was declared dead fo...
2880 TIL: During the Great Potato Famine, the Ottoma...
2874 TIL that during a dissection of a mother tiger ...
2846 TIL in WWII,Germans tank drivers in Africa woul...
2834 TIL A newspaper reporter in Toronto, gave homel...
2013, April
7139 TIL Ray Bradbury originally titled Fahrenheit 4...
4076 TIL Albert Einstein was approached so often by ...
3884 TIL In exchange for Pepsi products, Russia gave...
3722 TIL in 1964, a man photographing his daughter i...
3692 TIL in the 1980s a man with severe OCD shot him...
3458 TIL that Ticketmaster was investigated by the D...
3407 TIL Mr. Rogers made a point of mentioning out l...
3275 TIL... When Alan Shepard was waiting for liftof...
3270 TIL the German word for 'birth control pill' is...
3252 TIL Samuel L Jackson has a clause in all his mo...
2013, March
5692 TIL that BOA wrongfully foreclosed a couple, wh...
5604 TIL when Astronaut Ed Mitchell was asked what i...
3657 TIL that it would take 76 8-hour work days for ...
3484 TIL that when Michael Foot was put in charge of...
3420 TIL a software company buried a $1,000 prize de...
3225 TIL sleeping on the job is acceptable in japan....
3129 TIL that 62% of bankruptcies in the US are due ...
3009 TIL if you have no debts and $10 in your pocket...
2979 TIL that when a dignitary complained to Preside...
2937 TIL that an Oregon survey found that panhandler...
2013, February
3668 TIL that Dolly Parton thinks it is so important...
3416 TIL that a struggling young Harper Lee once rec...
3280 TIL a man spent 67 years of his life stereoblin...
3134 TIL the most successful interrogator of WWII pr...
3037 TIL an Italian brain surgeon had a heart attack...
3028 TIL that between the time it was discovered and...
2888 TIL The first person sentenced to the stocks in...
2878 TIL that residents of Churchill, Canada leave t...
2761 TIL the octopus is so intelligent, the UK consi...
2731 TIL Costco audits the companies it buys from to...
2013, January
8201 TIL that after needing 13 liters of blood for a...
3870 TIL that in 1861 a slave took over on a confede...
3789 TIL that the reason rubbing alcohol burns when ...
3501 TIL that in 1945, Dwight D. Einsenhower predict...
2931 TIL Scientists are working on a "GPS" that work...
2872 TIL that domestic cats instinctively don't want...
2758 TIL That the Dominican Republic offered to take...
2750 TIL that in 1808, a gentlemen's duel took place...
2718 TIL that in 1976, an underachieving Princeton j...
2710 TIL that in 2010 an unlucky airline passenger w...
