/r/todayilearned - top ten submissions for each month of 2015
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2015, December
24737 TIL ABC has been cutting scenes from "A Charlie...
36339 TIL That the Sacramento Public Library started ...
36231 TIL Swedish blood donors first recieve a 'Thank...
35550 TIL that while John and Clarence Anglin, 2 of t...
37812 TIL A woman correctly detected 11 out of 12 sub...
31386 TIL Daniel Balsam is a US man who got so infuri...
26825 TIL of a three year old Russian girl who surviv...
26662 TIL there are 1,311 people who live in Verkhoya...
24084 TIL in 1941 the world’s largest seed bank (cr...
26210 TIL in 1976, Japan donated 53 bonsai trees to t...
2015, November
56655 TIL the mobile game "Send Me to Heaven" involve...
42721 TIL there is an island which is disputed territ...
15147 TIL Police in Clearwater, FL received 161 calls...
42138 TIL the Cult Awareness Network listed Scientolo...
20031 TIL On the 28th of September 2006 The City Coun...
25583 TIL a hacker was able to recreate the fingerpri...
21766 TIL language learning site Duolingo makes its m...
29692 TIL that in order to popularize potatoes in Fra...
32389 TIL magic mushrooms may give users trippy exper...
20129 TIL that British banking giant HSBC admitted to...
2015, October
35532 TIL Best Buy used to have a fake internal websi...
26271 TIL avocados contain more fat than any other fr...
28521 TIL of Ken Allen (1971–2000), an orangutan at...
39040 TIL that an Orca killed a Great White Shark nea...
43423 TIL The singer of Peanut Butter Jelly Time died...
23111 TIL of "Mr. Trash Wheel", a solar-powered devic...
23010 TIL during the riots in Ukraine, St. Michaels C...
16830 TIL that Armenian finswimmer Shavarsh Karapetya...
20183 TIL that it wasn't until the 1930s that product...
17992 TIL that dogs have only recently been able to w...
2015, September
27312 TIL in 2009 a pigeon named Winston raced Telkom...
31066 TIL after a Federal Reserve interest rate decis...
32364 TIL Director Robert Zemeckis, who has approval ...
27989 TIL that some Cuban cigar factories employed a ...
14179 TIL that the Cult Awareness Network (CAN), once...
20067 TIL that the Illiad and the Odyssey are just tw...
41502 TIL when a city in Indiana replaced all their s...
25107 TIL Elvis' manager sold "I Hate Elvis" badges t...
21510 TIL that the author of FIGHT CLUB came up with ...
30123 TIL one of Frank Abagnale's (Catch Me If You Ca...
2015, August
47318 TIL at a Marine Mammal Studies Institute, dolph...
56361 TIL that a newspaper posted a poll asking reade...
66143 TIL that Adidas will cancel any sponsorship dea...
39062 TIL millionaire Michael O'Leary, CEO of airline...
30624 TIL there was a song written in the 1630s that ...
35624 TIL There were ancient stone tablets in Japan's...
30737 TIL that the current CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojc...
37623 TIL that a father was denied access to see his ...
23217 TIL a man named Simon Bunce was arrested for bu...
35483 TIL that "inner speech" (the voice you hear ins...
2015, July
40281 TIL scientists attached stilts to the legs of a...
28444 TIL: There is a fern that has such a high level...
41672 TIL In 1987, a guy bought a lifetime unlimited ...
27358 TIL Vietnam War POW Doug Hegdahl pretended to b...
27155 TIL that all US astronauts are required to lear...
17588 TIL Bowhead whales may be the world's longest l...
26474 TIL In 1999 hackers revealed a security flaw in...
15467 TIL David Bowie performed at the Berlin Wall, w...
18093 TIL that over 1,000,000 Euros are thrown into t...
19418 TIL Petroleum Jelly was first discovered when a...
2015, June
39854 TIL Indonesia realized dead Manta Rays are wort...
29919 TIL when building the Golden Gate Bridge, the l...
23524 TIL that MIT students found out that by buying ...
32896 TIL that during the cold war, when navy divers ...
26102 TIL Indianapolis has a volunteer program called...
26778 TIL a guy implied he was going to build a 480 f...
16073 TIL that Pat Robertson diverted Rwandan Genocid...
26602 TIL the Han dynasty of China drilled for natura...
14484 TIL the largest single bloc of opposition to th...
34430 TIL of a monk who had taken an old book written...
2015, May
47776 TIL a sailor who wishes to grow a beard in the ...
24120 TIL that conservationists in South Africa are i...
33893 TIL that there is a surviving fantasy novel wri...
28655 TIL a Japanese interpreter once translated a jo...
13226 TIL there is service in Boulder CO called Hango...
25144 TIL Alexander I of Yugoslavia refused to attend...
16621 TIL In 1970, America's semiconductor industry g...
25182 TIL a prize of $1 million has been offered to a...
20269 TIL that when Syphilis first surfaced, the Engl...
33119 TIL that Howard Lutnick donated more than $65 m...
2015, April
23893 TIL an Air Canada passenger flight took a detou...
30611 TIL President James K. Polk is nicknamed by som...
23161 TIL astronauts must have good airflow around th...
27093 TIL Ten days after the Chernobyl disaster, furt...
28296 TIL that some areas in Scotland and Japan switc...
18682 TIL that California uses inmates to fight fores...
20988 TIL that on April Fools Day in 1989, billionair...
14132 TIL of Central American Stingless Bees that hav...
25266 TIL that rats who were trained to press a lever...
35210 TIL of a Californian care home that went bankru...
2015, March
66914 TIL of a Malawian teenager who taught himself h...
40912 TIL the first animal to ask an existential ques...
26860 TIL that in the process of trying to catch seri...
29794 TIL a set of 19 questions such as “Do we have...
24465 TIL that vampire bats will die if they can't fi...
15793 TIL that. in the US, the "we'll be back after t...
30521 TIL that when one hermit crab finds a bigger sh...
19431 TIL while free to watch online, the single tick...
16507 TIL that 75% of Japanese homes have a hi-tech t...
15172 TIL the Church of Scientology ran several smear...
2015, February
41558 TIL most Japanese schools do not employ janitor...
27612 TIL that, after his disabled owner was struck b...
19971 TIL Albuterol, one of the oldest asthma medicin...
21129 TIL in 2013 The Wall Street Journal discovered ...
27576 TIL that when Benjamin Franklin died in 1790, h...
47791 TIL Weird Al turned down $5 million, in the lat...
22102 TIL That the Dutch East India Company was the m...
27102 TIL that in the New Deal, FDR called for a new ...
13803 TIL The CEO of Spotify was the CEO of uTorrent ...
16356 TIL Dolphins will communicate with one another ...
2015, January
49120 TIL Pimps wear lots of gold jewelry bought at p...
21257 TIL it is illegal in many countries to perform ...
21063 TIL that two Undercover Agents repeatedly tried...
26027 TIL Polish doctor Eugene Lazowski saved 8,000 J...
30891 TIL That Alfred Hitchcock filmed a Holocaust Do...
21657 TIL of an indoor vegetable factory in Japan tha...
15142 TIL City birds have learned to line their nests...
15353 TIL no one born blind has ever developed schizo...
31035 TIL anyone can purchase a Volvo and get a free ...
22647 TIL during WWII Canada gave out buttons to peop...
