/r/todayilearned - top ten submissions for each month of 2019
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2019, December
139502 TIL actor Robert Pattinson dealt with an obsess...
123544 TIL BBC journalists requested an interview with...
105237 TIL only three people in the nation were qualif...
100999 TIL in 2012, a burger king employee anonymously...
94590 TIL Many products are getting smaller due to 's...
93522 TIL Bill gates purchased the Leonardo da Vinci'...
92973 TIL that Super Mario is named after real-life b...
92881 TIL that Sir Christopher Lee(who played Saruman...
92427 TIL that a man named Oswald can be heard only a...
92172 TIL according to Matt Groening, FOX was never s...
2019, November
123343 TIL: This year, the official Yu Gi Oh tournamen...
98455 TIL that a guy called Dale Schroeder used his l...
87717 TIL the food court at Costco makes so much mone...
86544 TIL that Glenn K. Tripp, a D.B Cooper copycat, ...
86324 TIL Queen Elizabeth once went for a walk near h...
80308 TIL in 2012, the Walmart with the most Facebook...
79446 TIL "Libations," the practice of pouring out al...
79082 TIL that a "white elephant gift exchange" gets ...
78553 TIL that when a bee hive becomes too full, bees...
77891 TIL about Keith Cutler, a judge summoned to be ...
2019, October
94311 TIL Mr. T had T-cell lymphoma. He said, “Can ...
88094 TIL a woman in France accidentally received a p...
81165 TIL: Tom Cruise is obsessed with sending his co...
80172 TIL: Ben Franklin was a slaveowner for much of ...
79855 TIL 71% of U.S. youth would not currently quali...
78548 TIL a legally blind hoarder whose son had not b...
77492 TIL The mother of a sick baby asked Ronaldo for...
72253 TIL that the final science exam for 8th grade s...
71798 TIL over 100 marijuana plants sprouted on the A...
70660 TIL that Chinese newspaper cited The Onion nami...
2019, September
87957 TIL that Schizophrenia's hallucinations are sha...
84356 TIL about "paired kidney exchange", which allow...
84261 TIL of The Rolex Murder. On July 28, 1996, a ma...
82114 TIL, in the 1928 Olympics, Australian sculler B...
80953 TIL After Oprah's famous "You get a car" episod...
79373 TIL George Clooney once gave 14 of his closest ...
77935 TIL shortly after returning from the moon Buzz ...
77648 TIL when Beethoven first performed his Ninth Sy...
77604 TIL that the first anti-hacking law was passed ...
77079 TIL that Saturns’ rings are, cosmically speak...
2019, August
122801 TIL that a 13-year-old opened a hot dog stand i...
112266 TIL about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia woman w...
105931 TIL that Mario Puzo, the author of the Godfathe...
98463 TIL that after visiting a prison in Norway that...
91089 TIL Of Billy Ray Harris, a beggar who was accid...
89747 TIL A boy dying of an incurable illness wanted ...
87419 TIL In 2004 actor Paul Walker secretly purchase...
82983 TIL the iconic Goldeneye 007 for the Nintendo 6...
82268 TIL that Teller (the silent half of Penn and Te...
79941 TIL The US Military still uses 8 inch floppy di...
2019, July
132749 TIL In 1959, police were called to a segregated...
125067 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub...
95611 TIL President Diouf began an anti-AIDS program ...
94143 TIL when Weird Al Yankovic asked Kurt Cobain to...
83759 TIL That all of McDonalds’ delivery trucks in...
82902 TIL just before Live Aid, Freddie Mercury was t...
82311 TIL In 2014, black taxi cab drivers brought par...
82284 TIL that Nike had conditions before giving rook...
79816 TIL the bishop of Orlando is also bishop of the...
79482 TIL Serial killer Ed Kemper befriended the very...
2019, June
108030 TIL the crew of 'Return of the Jedi' mocked the...
95142 TIL in 1959 a white man from Texas disguised hi...
94856 TIL that Charlie Chaplin made the Hitler mockin...
92965 TIL: When former slave Jordan Anderson was aske...
90787 TIL when Charlie Sheen came out as HIV positive...
86732 TIL prohibition agent Izzy Einstein bragged tha...
79519 TIL: During the time of the Great Depression, a...
79381 TIL human procrastination is considered a compl...
79031 TIL that 80% of toilets in Hong Kong are flushe...
76767 TIL in California all DUI convicts are made to ...
2019, May
99657 TIL that farmers in USA are hacking their John ...
77463 TIL - The inventor of the USB had originally in...
74702 TIL a Stanford study (2016) found a positive co...
72620 TIL that when the US military tried segregating...
69742 TIL In 1948, a man pinned under a tractor used ...
69357 TIL that Nintendo pushed usage of the term "gam...
68751 Til that in 1992, a man named Stefan Mandel won...
68405 TIL that NASA ground controllers were once shoc...
66523 TIL That President Andrew Jackson owned a parro...
66219 TIL that in 1982, the comic strip The Far Side ...
2019, April
109997 TIL that in 1998 Sony had the chance to buy the...
104450 TIL when Robert Ballard (professor of oceanogra...
98255 TIL that Volvo opened up the patent for three-p...
97919 TIL That Elvis Presley's manager sold "I Hate E...
93536 TIL that for four years, Hugh Grant pretended t...
85588 TIL: The oldest bar in the world is in Ireland....
85312 TIL The original word for 'bear' has been lost....
81109 TIL of Dmitry Argarkov who scanned a credit car...
80156 TIL There is a group of wolves in British Colum...
79794 TIL Kim Kardashian was paid to post a selfie on...
2019, March
136902 TIL of Dr. Donald Hopkins. He helped eradicate ...
117433 TIL that Pink Floyd's The Wall is implied to be...
105789 TIL - In 1836, a sewer worker accidentally disc...
105172 TIL the Japanese bullet train system is equippe...
104480 TIL when Lawrence Anthony, known as "The Elepha...
101640 TIL The reason why we view neanderthals as hunc...
100629 TIL after "the world’s largest beach clean-up...
95956 TIL that Billy West, who does the voice of Phil...
95303 TIL that Schwarzenegger faked interest in the m...
94627 TIL that the little boy known as Batkid who “...
2019, February
125748 TIL in the 1880s, the Harvard Observatory direc...
111578 TIL a Harvard study found that hiring one highl...
104592 TIL that a Polish environmental charity put a S...
98910 TIL that when Michael Jackson granted Weird Al ...
95724 TIL that the NFL made a commitee to falsify inf...
93675 TIL that an Anti seat-belt advocate, Derek Kiep...
90687 TIL a woman named Glenda Blackwell brought a sc...
90319 TIL: You were more likely to get a job if you h...
87583 TIL that Gordon Ramsay has chosen not to give h...
86839 TIL in 1981 a man named Roger Fischer had an id...
2019, January
126096 TIL that Willie, a parrot, alerted its owner, M...
121452 TIL Kate Winslet keeps her Oscar in the bathroo...
116372 TIL that a depressed Manchester teen used sever...
105865 TIL Gary Gygax's wife was convinced he was havi...
105831 TIL Max Planck was told by his professor to not...
104632 TIL Martin Short, Steve Martin and Tom Hanks ha...
100478 TIL that during the filming of the Sound of Mus...
99555 TIL that after studios refused, Monty Python an...
96853 TIL Hershey's does not meet the legal minimum c...
96044 TIL Why paper cuts are so painful is b/c at a m...
