/r/todayilearned - top ten submissions for each month of 2016
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2016, December
113349 TIL Carrie Fisher told her fans: "No matter how...
83061 TIL there have been no beehive losses in Cuba. ...
63442 TIL Because the number 8 is considered very luc...
57112 TIL When Britain changed the packaging for Tyle...
56497 TIL a 9000 member indigenous tribe in Guyana is...
44402 TIL Scientology obtained their tax exemption fr...
65941 TIL that in 2012 when Taylor Swift held a publi...
54427 TIL, Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of such Nintendo...
48441 TIL by eating herbivores with seeds in their st...
50375 TIL when 50 deaf Nicaraguan children, who didn'...
2016, November
70451 TIL that a holocaust denial group offered $50,0...
59609 TIL that in 1986, nurse Sandra Clarke could not...
72473 TIL that President Lyndon B. Johnson once said,...
67813 TIL the world's oldest man is celebrating his b...
60649 TIL that Anonymous sent thousands of all-black ...
54047 TIL a 30-year-old elephant named Ben sought hel...
52983 TIL that a chimpanzee has been observed wearing...
43218 TIL a dying farmer scratched his will on the fe...
39293 TIL there's a version of "The Tortoise and the ...
31472 TIL that a New Orleans police officer committed...
2016, October
35879 TIL New Mercedes-Benz cars will play a short bl...
54146 TIL With funds from ALS 2014 Ice Bucket Challen...
54089 TIL The actor who played Darth Vader, David Pro...
44362 TIL A 9,000 Year Old Skeleton Was Found in a Ca...
56411 TIL that after Norway banned Life of Brian for ...
43594 TIL a Black Robin named Old Blue has become the...
27317 TIL Many American public libraries carry video ...
23594 TIL Mitsubishi once offered "0–0–0" financi...
26766 TIL when congress asked physicist R.R. Wilson t...
22035 TIL that a $350m drillship built in the early '...
2016, September
83485 TIL that in 2013, after more than 20 years of s...
56601 TIL Usain Bolt demands his ad shoots to be done...
45481 TIL: Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Hammer was purch...
60399 TIL that in 1984, Steven Tyler heard an old Aer...
28684 TIL One of the thirteen articles in the 1781 US...
26407 TIL A U.S. FDA study showed 90% of more than 10...
44422 TIL the CEO and co-founder of Spotify was also ...
37649 TIL in 1957 an airplane crashed onto Rikers Isl...
26784 TIL When Julius Caesar died, he left today's eq...
25001 TIL that life in Puritan New England was so har...
2016, August
63654 TIL that 'Kung-Fu Panda' (2008) was so successf...
43248 TIL Prosecutors tried to put wrongfully convict...
39280 TIL that most toilets in Hong Kong are flushed ...
42732 TIL Wounded Viking warriors were given strong o...
42169 TIL South Park saved all scene files used to cr...
28879 TIL that if you are INVOLUNTARILY bumped off yo...
54266 TIL Tic tacs are almost pure sugar but due to t...
51190 TIL Yao Ming's conservation campaigns have led ...
63407 TIL Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is the fir...
35376 TIL that when a whale dies and its carcass fall...
2016, July
34724 TIL In 1898 Nikola Tesla once tricked an entire...
22457 TIL: Google sought out to make the most efficie...
41817 TIL Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Super Mario Br...
32026 TIL in 2000 a man looking for a barber chair at...
30613 TIL that the reason Top 40 has specifically for...
19753 TIL from 1993 to 2008, the same DNA was discove...
22398 TIL when a crow dies, the other crows investiga...
19511 TIL that Tinder, Match.com, PlentyOfFish, and O...
17026 TIL that in 1993 Pepsi ran a contest in the Phi...
33279 TIL a man who was sentenced to 30 years in pris...
2016, June
71499 TIL that President Carter once told a joke duri...
69785 TIL that in 2006, 75% of Chinese didn't know th...
69137 TIL a pig named Lulu saved her owner’s life w...
18694 TIL that last summer the city of Albuquerque st...
36905 TIL Stockholm, Sweden tested a "Speed Camera Lo...
65472 TIL of a millionaire who announced he would bur...
53667 TIL Julia Stewart, who worked as a waitress at ...
22294 TIL that TBS speeds up shows up to 9% to gain e...
38644 TIL That a mountaineer found a wallet in the An...
36163 TIL bubbles from a bubble bath thermally insula...
2016, May
52196 TIL a philosophy riddle from 1688 was recently ...
42672 TIL Romanian sewer workers accidentally discove...
42390 TIL NASA has 2 satellites chasing eachother aro...
50341 TIL Louis Armstrong asked Richard Nixon to carr...
34408 TIL that after a 1946 plane crash, Howard Hughe...
26831 TIL of the 'loneliest organism' in the world. A...
40258 TIL that in 1987, FBI agent Robert Hanssen was ...
31611 TIL in the 18th century many prominent voices w...
34793 TIL that several European countries dealt with ...
27426 TIL in 2001 a Los Angeles man, upset at the poo...
2016, April
53697 TIL the USSR had a televised song contest. Sinc...
50061 TIL the makers of the 'Airplane!' and "Naked Gu...
30940 TIL J.J. Thomson won the Nobel in Physics (1906...
19388 TIL Bob Ross used to receive up to 200 letters ...
38527 TIL a lawyer was hired for a traffic case. Inst...
44292 TIL Billionaire Daniel Keith Ludwig Had Frozen ...
34210 TIL the satirical news outlet 'The Onion' is no...
35461 TIL the September 11 terror attacks on the WTC ...
29307 TIL A German biologist who claimed measles is p...
27983 TIL Aerosmith earned more money from Guitar Her...
2016, March
21723 TIL a Russian mathematician solved a 100 year o...
45810 TIL blood donors in Sweden are sent a text mess...
38272 TIL the number of vasectomies during March Madn...
33620 TIL in 1983, 90% of US media was controlled by ...
19828 TIL The very first attempted assassination of a...
12608 TIL a single ant can live to be 29 years old
33558 TIL of a 1993 proposal to build a giant adverti...
29624 TIL During the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, educ...
17979 TIL in 2014, South Korean Christians put up a C...
43380 TIL a 75 year old woman was arrested after she ...
2016, February
23862 TIL that Robert Landsburg, while filming Mount ...
29003 TIL the Federal Trade Commission says four canc...
44448 TIL two con men sold a fake painting for €1.5...
29285 TIL: In 2008 two judges were found to be accept...
22811 TIL CIA created a gun that could shoot darts th...
29008 TIL in 2005, a guy named Doug Heckman read the ...
19599 TIL Estonian ID cards have a chip with public-p...
26821 TIL that in 1946 Kodak customers complained abo...
35010 TIL Pearl Jam cancelled their 1994 summer tour ...
18655 TIL That during the height of the cold war, Nei...
2016, January
31822 TIL: Rice does not need to grow in water, but s...
52225 TIL in 2001 a man wrestled a 7-foot bull shark ...
31690 TIL Sergei Bubka repeatedly and deliberately br...
30739 TIL there's a hotline filmmakers can call for s...
29698 TIL that Dr Seuss's first book was rejected 20+...
24795 TIL Harry Markopolos determined Bernie Madoff w...
24189 TIL that if you drive one mile to the convenien...
16073 TIL that the Ancient Greeks had a word, akrasia...
34519 TIL the first man to perform cardiac catheteriz...
22045 TIL London only reached its pre-WW2 population ...
