/r/todayilearned - top ten submissions for each month of 2014
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2014, December
25990 TIL that in 2010 George Lucas said “I am dedi...
30307 TIL that scientists created a completely enclos...
23462 TIL Dr. Kelsey, despite immense pressure from p...
30484 TIL that in 2010 Microsoft banned a user from X...
33581 TIL after Hurricane Ike in 2008, Comcast custom...
40817 TIL that Topher Grace of 'That 70's Show' edite...
47915 TIL in 2004 North Korea demanded that the Czech...
17423 TIL traffic in central London moves at the same...
13205 TIL a man named Simon Bunce was arrested for bu...
21050 TIL a serial killer in New Orleans stated he wo...
2014, November
41073 TIL Swedish millionaire Johan Eliasch purchased...
56394 TIL that when the CEO of the Sesame Street Work...
26178 TIL that in order to prove that the bacteria H....
30213 TIL when a Virginia school board tried to ban "...
29225 TIL a U.S. senator was called a hero for refusi...
32249 TIL of a Chinese general with 100 troops who ha...
40559 TIL When Patrick Stewart was first asked to con...
28870 TIL of a British Marine who flung himself back-...
12974 TIL J.J. Thomson won the Nobel in Physics (1906...
24675 TIL Hitachi once produced an ATM that heated bi...
2014, October
43116 TIL two men were brought up on federal hacking ...
40548 TIL that Steven Russell escaped from prison by ...
26623 TIL we typically do not start to think of foods...
18486 TIL a Baltimore woman locked a police officer i...
22618 TIL in order to discover that penguins sleep mo...
20570 TIL that Manhattan Project mathematician Richar...
20947 TIL Kids Wish Foundation was named America's Wo...
19725 TIL When Kim Peek managed payrolls of 160 peopl...
20671 TIL that a man spent several years acting as th...
2014, September
14270 TIL Japanese police fire paint-balls at fleeing...
26149 TIL Ernest Hemingway begged his wife not to sen...
42155 TIL during the 2008 world hops shortage, the Sa...
22834 TIL that Mexican shamans began to use Coca-Cola...
27896 TIL that a captive killer whale at MarineLand d...
25685 TIL when skydiver Joan Murray's parachute faile...
18424 TIL that during the Ming dynasty (approx. 1570)...
24539 TIL when the KGB tried to blackmail Indonesian ...
16779 TIL "Space Invaders" the game was intended to a...
17271 TIL the 1883 eruption on Krakatoa produced the ...
2014, August
32534 TIL that in order to preserve the state's natur...
34042 TIL knife manufacturer, Victorinox, claims neve...
23961 TIL: In 1963, a man knocked down a wall of his ...
21935 TIL in 1945 a group of Soviet school children p...
29017 TIL Billy Joel gives away all of his front row ...
31610 TIL that Alice Walton, heir to the Wal-Mart for...
21825 TIL Nike made a commercial depicting a Samburu ...
19628 TIL Singer Tom Waits successfully sued the LAPD...
15682 TIL that in 1951, MGM owed the dog who played L...
30727 TIL after a Florida Highway Patrol Officer tick...
2014, July
30260 TIL during the late 1800s a baboon was employed...
27976 TIL The guy who snagged windows2000.com happene...
18761 TIL in 1993 a Missouri man purposely damaged a ...
12999 TIL that the bar tab of a 1787 farewell party f...
16751 TIL that an Australian man living by a cliff ha...
20327 TIL after the killer of a Frenchman's daughter ...
14987 TIL The Museum of Endangered Sounds exists to a...
11344 TIL Henry Ford once balked at paying $10,000 to...
17879 TIL that James Cameron was homeless when writin...
18029 TIL Landmines planted on the coasts during the ...
2014, June
4960 TIL that three hunters in Oregon were discovere...
4705 TIL The cost of college textbooks has risen 812...
4433 TIL Scientists had to purge Urban Dictionary's ...
4425 TIL that Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxe...
4413 TIL The pilot episode of LOST was so expensive ...
4345 TIL During WW2, captured German officers, sent ...
4199 TIL Alcatraz was the only federal prison at the...
4119 TIL that in 2011, two men para-glided from the ...
4113 TIL there's a teddybear in every Dutch police c...
4072 TIL in 1994, a convicted murderer was granted a...
2014, May
5182 TIL there was was a movement in the early 1900s...
4271 TIL that Sony BMG used music cds to illegally i...
4168 TIL that in 1956, for a bet, while drunk, Thoma...
4048 TIL that in 1997, four years before being arres...
4043 TIL that when Canadian reporter Mellissa Fung w...
3896 TIL that Fair Oaks Farms in Indiana produces co...
3890 TIL termites are being researched as a possible...
3821 TIL that the body fat of a 440 lbs woman caught...
3824 TIL that sleep deprived drivers cause accidents...
3733 TIL that the Chief Translator for the European ...
2014, April
5293 TIL that in 2008, after becoming fed up with pe...
4115 TIL Queen Elizabeth does not hold a passport. S...
4092 TIL A 2-year study that linked Ecstasy to Parki...
4009 TIL When the leading emergency asthma medicatio...
3923 TIL scientists are excavating the ruins of a ma...
3844 TIL that Glucose (sugar) has an opposite "hande...
3644 TIL That by following up on an ancient Russian ...
3595 TIL that Harvard earns enough money on interest...
3580 TIL Allie Brosh's (of Hyperbole and a Half) com...
3554 TIL A man thought to be in a vegetative state i...
2014, March
4617 TIL former US President Calvin Coolidge (1924-2...
4157 TIL a full-time cashier at Costco makes about $...
4139 TIL that according to English law, the "Right t...
4104 TIL Nintendo has banked so much money, that the...
3947 TIL The asteroid impact that killed the dinosau...
3857 TIL that Buddhists have been selecting monks to...
3845 TIL in 2006, VH1 Classic ran fundraiser for Hur...
3638 TIL Alfred Hitchcock was notoriously hard on ac...
3562 TIL: When ketchup is labeled "Fancy" it's actua...
3518 TIL ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are o...
2014, February
4524 TIL For those who have trouble sleeping researc...
4032 TIL Yang (Lenovo's CEO) received a $3 million b...
3765 TIL that pineapples were such a status symbol i...
3668 TIL After denied rights to use "Another One Bit...
3603 TIL John Swartzwelder, a writer for the Simpson...
3567 TIL the "strawberries" and "peaches" in Quaker ...
3545 TIL Colombian drug trafficker Carlos Lehder bou...
3524 TIL the wrestler Mick Foley became a fan of Tor...
3480 TIL that a shot in Hannibal of a flayed naked c...
3471 TIL that reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone ch...
2014, January
6138 TIL the longest ever recorded sniper kill was s...
5721 TIL that Gordon Ramsay challenged James May fro...
5719 TIL Leonardo DiCaprio was named Leonardo becaus...
5431 TIL a Hungarian man was shot in the frontal lob...
5099 TIL 1994 NBA MVP Hakeem Olajuwon released a $35...
4862 TIL Marvel Comics created a superhero, Blue Ear...
4459 TIL Verizon received $2.1 billion in tax breaks...
4447 TIL that in one WWII battle, German soldiers fo...
4249 TIL: Shin Dong-hyuk is the only man in recorded...
4116 TIL The bezel on a dive watch only rotates coun...
