/r/todayilearned - top ten submissions for each month of 2017
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2017, December
108760 TIL apes don't ask questions. While apes can le...
104767 TIL that after Beethoven went deaf, he found he...
104355 TIL that the Mythbusters once tested a combinat...
126408 TIL Carrie Fisher delivered a cow tongue inside...
101978 TIL scientists discovered a dinosaur tail perfe...
89639 TIL the second officer of the Titanic, who surv...
86091 TIL in the 1880s, many farmers communicated by ...
104072 TIL that Angelina Jolie once tried to hire a hi...
94049 TIL an Icelandic tradition called JólabókaflÃ...
86823 TIL for the first 40 million years that woody t...
2017, November
97617 TIL A researcher once played a recording of an ...
99181 TIL" George Washington allegedly said before hi...
103233 TIL: Nirvana played a concert in Beunos Aires w...
85601 TIL Vitaminwater is basically sugar-water, to w...
84217 TIL While rendering Toy Story, Pixar named each...
80030 TIL when George Westinghouse fell into financia...
79089 TIL that when humans domesticated wolves, we ba...
60112 TIL Belugas can mimic the human voice so well a...
63500 TIL in 1972 Canada had a contest to complete th...
57941 TIL Although the show ended 14 years ago, FRIEN...
2017, October
88690 TIL an American woman never learned what happen...
111726 TIL that Eminem watched his daughter, Hailie, g...
60149 TIL that the Retail Credit Company's public ima...
71299 TIL that when the 24-7-365 restaurant Denny's d...
78641 TIL that Harvard professor Tom Lehrer was asked...
78846 TIL The German Parliament building has a glass ...
64095 TIL a lawyer was hired for a traffic case. Inst...
59713 TIL in 1986, 12 members of a Florida jury got s...
58583 TIL in 1926, Poland sent the US a birthday card...
61000 TIL there was a global search to find a mate fo...
2017, September
118607 TIL hundreds of love letters between two gay Wo...
84717 TIL that Mozart disliked performer Adriana Ferr...
78612 TIL that the CDC has urged that schools open la...
71009 TIL that in South Africa,2009, an employee of a...
79228 TIL Scientists put slime mold onto a model of a...
79401 TIL that roundabouts reduce fatalities from acc...
81875 TIL Ben Franklin left the cities of Boston and ...
66242 TIL that in Sweden you have a constitutional ri...
82220 TIL David Letterman created a scholarship for t...
68338 TIL while working on "Malcolm In The Middle," B...
2017, August
102481 TIL a woman was sentenced to life in prison for...
101272 TIL Eminem's song "Lose Yourself" was the first...
87540 TIL that the refrain “when one door closes, a...
85302 TIL about the Rosenhan experiment, in which a S...
76342 TIL during the filming of Matilda, Danny Devito...
82567 TIL that following the death of Nicole van den ...
81407 TIL that in Japan, Hiroshima Peace Flame has be...
75611 TIL a Chinese father hired a 'hitman' to kill h...
72998 TIL that a cow named Cincinnati Freedom evaded ...
74235 TIL 20,000 year-old fossilized human footprints...
2017, July
119480 TIL when a millionaire gave everyone in a Flori...
93513 TIL Mark Twain traveled extensively and once sa...
78170 TIL an octopus named Otto caused an aquarium po...
78962 TIL that James Doohan (Scotty on 'Star Trek') r...
76090 TIL The town of Dull in Scotland has been twinn...
70382 TIL the owner of Macy's died on the Titanic. He...
72203 TIL after a waitress at a pizzeria helped a cus...
58897 TIL that thalidomide, the infamous morning sick...
65960 TIL Johnny Cash took only three voice lessons i...
63939 TIL that the FBI started compiling a file on Sa...
2017, June
127173 TIL that Billy Joel never sells front row seats...
111894 TIL when Nintendo had a fall in revenue from th...
90062 TIL a Comcast customer who was constantly dissa...
92781 TIL not long before his death, Freddie Mercury,...
91160 TIL that Anonymous sent thousands of all-black ...
81129 TIL that tigers can, and will, take revenge on ...
66531 TIL In 1988 Mad Magazine drew attention to a ci...
80493 TIL When Eminem wanted to get clean he called E...
75659 TIL that during the Holocaust, Polish doctors E...
57582 TIL instead of donating money, Toyota helped th...
2017, May
78172 TIL a rodent that was believed to be extinct fo...
79014 TIL that Norman Mineta's baseball bat was confi...
72876 TIL that the Ancient Egyptians used 12 months o...
80609 TIL in 1724 Margaret Dickson was hanged but lat...
68303 TIL of Steve Comisar, who sold a 'solar-powered...
70755 TIL meth is so common in North Korea that suite...
56667 TIL that in the 18th century John Harrison clai...
67519 TIL "call of the void" is that feeling when you...
61889 TIL a man almost went to jail for child porn on...
62987 TIL former president of Liberia Charles King ho...
2017, April
93887 TIL A man was once sued by United Airlines for ...
70184 TIL In the USA if you are delayed by an airline...
72885 TIL United airlines promised to help a blind wo...
54485 TIL: The CIA is supposed to release the JFK ass...
64012 TIL that because of an old superstition, severa...
53539 TIL in 2005, Sony used music CDs to illegally i...
62581 TIL German animal protection law prohibits kill...
56513 TIL Raccoons were able to open 11 of 13 complex...
60451 TIL a small lake in Africa killed 1,700 village...
61321 TIL that in 1981, a Turkish man shot Pope John ...
2017, March
85960 TIL Water is used in rice fields to prevent wee...
75502 TIL of the "idiot plot". The term was populariz...
73384 TIL when Beethoven was challenged to an improvi...
74763 TIL During WW2 Joe Medicine Crow, a native Amer...
70313 TIL Former US President Calvin Coolidge enjoyed...
64286 TIL that 50 years before women were allowed to ...
56518 TIL while penniless and dying, Ulysses S Grant ...
55459 TIL a nurse wanted to know if her farts were co...
59423 TIL that adding a type of seaweed to the diet o...
61810 TIL anybody can walk into a Sikh temple after p...
2017, February
72324 TIL a Romanian-born Israeli and American scient...
74554 TIL Bill Gates Has Given Away $28 Billion Since...
68265 TIL an Italian schoolboy who was selling snacks...
69744 TIL George Washington feared the growing influe...
61233 TIL that when asked for his thoughts on the mig...
59647 TIL when a Long Island woman accidentally threw...
60211 TIL Due to the Taliban dynamiting two famous 4t...
52481 TIL that Florida investigators recreated a home...
59010 TIL in England, after 2 thieves broke into a ma...
60683 TIL that despite supporting one of the highest ...
2017, January
89253 TIL the term "genuine leather" isn't reassuring...
70191 TIL that in 1986, when a five year old boy fell...
66721 TIL the seven sins according to Gandhi: "Wealth...
62475 TIL When Willie Nelson's assets were auctioned ...
62432 TIL that diarrhea was the leading cause of deat...
61873 TIL a 2013 survey showed 91% of Chinese people ...
60917 TIL Steven Spielberg wanted to direct a James B...
54570 TIL shortly before she died, Majel Barrett reco...
62818 TIL that the Queen of England once "terrorised"...
55589 TIL that it cost $20 million to evict the last ...
