/r/todayilearned - top ten submissions for each month of 2018
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2018, December
125399 TIL Dennis Ritchie who invented the C programmi...
123986 TIL there was an early 1900s act named "Sober S...
122337 TIL A man created a fake restaurant on TripAdvi...
116633 TIL: Laurence Tureaud named himself professiona...
115616 TIL That the Cuban Missile Crisis began when a ...
115068 TIL when Mr Rogers heard his limo driver was go...
114644 TIL planned obsolescence is illegal in France; ...
96212 TIL Frank Zappa was a futurist who was enthusia...
94533 TIL that soon after Bill Gates had gone to star...
90201 TIL about an orangutan named Ken who escaped fr...
2018, November
123553 TIL of Syndrome K: a fake disease that Italian ...
122259 TIL During the American Revolution, an enslaved...
117437 TIL an actor in Nazi Germany lost his job for b...
101443 TIL that in 1825 painter Samuel Morse received ...
96506 TIL Stan Lee, co-creator of Daredevil, worried ...
94879 TIL that the "drink 8 glasses of water a day" i...
93297 TIL when the territory of Wyoming applied to jo...
87600 TIL A Japanese rail company has apologised afte...
86791 TIL that the creators/directors/writers for Par...
86590 TIL marine biologist, Stephen Hillenburg, creat...
2018, October
119761 TIL: Some farmers in Bangladesh have switched t...
103188 TIL of Bob Fletcher, a man who took care of the...
102307 TIL in 2005, a guy named Doug Heckman read the ...
99301 TIL after Columbine, Marilyn Manson wrote an ar...
93402 TIL Wrigley’s was originally a soap company t...
91925 TIL that there is a monument in Georgia which g...
88185 TIL when the Bulgarian monarch died at 49 durin...
85352 TIL L. Ron. Hubbard’s own son, L. Ron Hubbard...
83457 TIL that Ernest Hemingway lived through anthrax...
82645 TIL that reindeer are the only mammals that can...
2018, September
104352 TIL that in ancient Rome, commoners would evacu...
98742 TIL that Harper Lee’s friends gave her a full...
96012 TIL that after firefighters saved piglets from ...
87293 TIL that Cards Against Humanity joked that they...
84875 TIL that while filming "Star Wars: The Force Aw...
83623 TIL about Tokyo's incredibly efficient recyclin...
81596 TIL Chris Pratt stole his Peter Quill/Star-Lord...
81497 TIL that residents in Surabaya, Indonesia can p...
80601 TIL 48 hours before Deadpool was green lit by 2...
80305 TIL that the Vatican has nominated St. Isidore ...
2018, August
121952 TIL After closely investigating Michael Jackson...
118849 TIL that there was a rumor that Stephen Hawking...
108770 TIL that in the 1950's, donut shops were some o...
99864 TIL that in Germany, it is illegal to kill any ...
97173 TIL after Chamillionaire won a Grammy for “Ri...
92888 TIL Ryan Reynolds has openly spoken about his l...
86855 TIL Bill Gates, since 2007, has given away 48% ...
84561 TIL "All Star" by Smash Mouth was written with ...
81681 TIL the creator of the TV show Archer became bo...
81021 TIL when the inventors of Silly String were try...
2018, July
130240 TIL A Japanese company has awarded its non-smok...
97342 TIL: When roosters open their beaks fully, thei...
95474 TIL Anthony Daniels, who endured years of disco...
94489 TIL : When Queen Elizabeth visited the set of "...
93870 TIL of the Great Whiskey Fire of Dublin that ki...
93112 TIL In 1988, Israel Kamakawiwoʻole called a st...
89988 TIL MRI of dog's brains show that they see owne...
85808 TIL that in 1997, a poacher wounded a tiger and...
85356 TIL two trapped miners once asked for an ipod w...
84840 TIL that a British bomb detection dog named The...
2018, June
111841 TIL an 86-year-old wrote an upbeat review for h...
99917 TIL that the second officer of the Titanic stay...
90520 TIL Guns and Roses guitarist Slash did not allo...
88889 TIL that when released in France in 2007, Ratat...
86350 TIL there is no antivenom for a blue-ringed oct...
86089 TIL Adam West and Frank Gorshin were kicked out...
81510 TIL all "warranty void if removed" stickers are...
81334 TIL The band blink-182 officially named their h...
77474 TIL Viggo Mortensen purchased the horse he rode...
77042 TIL that Lebron James rejected a $10 million of...
2018, May
146460 TIL that in 1916 there was a proposed Amendment...
108965 TIL a man falsely imprisoned for 10 years spent...
107469 TIL Washington Redskins' owner Dan Snyder once ...
106494 TIL That Yao Ming's conservation campaigns has ...
103062 TIL the creators of "Parks and Recreation" did ...
102145 TIL that Prince William and Prince Harry pulled...
98129 TIL Hugh Jackman took a pay cut to ensure "Loga...
96760 TIL of the speed camera lottery in Stockholm, S...
95778 TIL that the moon is 1/400th the size of the su...
95580 TIL Donnie Yen (the blind monk in Star Wars: Ro...
2018, April
98469 TIL Grand Theft Auto V cost $265 million to mak...
97434 TIL when pimps get arrested, their cash can leg...
91831 TIL psychologist László Polgár theorized tha...
90406 TIL on the set of The Princess Bride, André th...
88016 TIL that NYC beekeepers noticed their bees maki...
87672 TIL a riddle from 1688 goes. "If a man born bli...
87620 TIL: Of the United States' 2.9 million female h...
84873 TIL that Steven Spielberg wanted to direct a Ja...
83210 TIL that out of the top 30 100m sprint times, o...
78788 TIL that the actor who played Luca Brasi in the...
2018, March
101249 TIL a group of undercover Detroit police posing...
97935 TIL an 18-month-old German Shepherd named Luna ...
97138 TIL that Keanu Reeves runs a private charitable...
94301 TIL The two parts to the word “helicopter†...
87740 TIL: China creates so much synthetic diamonds t...
86185 TIL upon hearing about the death of Teddy Roose...
83468 TIL that after Michael Jordan dunked over 6-foo...
82828 TIL: In 2010, Microsoft banned a user from Xbox...
82511 TIL of Heart Attack Grill, a Las Vegas restaura...
81750 TIL Socrates was very worried that the increasi...
2018, February
129110 TIL when the Nazis burned Sigmund Freud's books...
116894 TIL Michael Jordan once tipped a waitress a $5 ...
103439 TIL there's a restaurant in New York that doesn...
96969 TIL the Catholic Church has accepted Darwinian ...
96735 TIL: CBS used to add bird songs to their golf b...
94885 TIL that comedian Ryan Stiles from Whose Line i...
92447 TIL after his wife was denied water by upper ca...
90250 TIL then 13 year-old Danielle Lei, a Girl Scout...
89261 TIL on 2009 Stephen Hawking held a party open t...
82153 TIL that when a man had a heart attack at a gro...
2018, January
145715 TIL After Col. Shaw died in battle, Confederate...
117115 TIL Keanu Reeves often foregoes some of his pay...
113756 TIL : IN 2006, a man in Portland, Oregon hired ...
95714 TIL that Lake Superior has an island which has ...
94989 TIL if you publish a book in Norway, the govern...
91626 TIL that when Diogenes, the ancient Greek philo...
84117 TIL Australian opium farmers found mysterious c...
82580 TIL flow is the mental state in which a person ...
81906 TIL that while filming â€The Wireâ€, Andre Ro...
80877 TIL that Usain Bolt was offered a position as w...
