/r/todayilearned - top ten submissions for each month of 2020
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2020, December
115740 TIL that when filming the TV series "The Mandal...
114564 TIL Frank Sinatra died the night of Seinfeld's ...
110459 TIL Rome has major struggles with expanding the...
106592 TIL the Make-a-Wish Foundation granted a child ...
100791 TIL that In 2018, A hacker broke into people’...
96796 TIL, That since domestication, dogs' eyes have ...
96257 TIL: Jim Carey used to get to do stand up in hi...
93240 TIL African elephants often bury dead or sleepi...
90851 TIL George Clooney purchased a Vietnamese pot-b...
90210 TIL Tchaikovsky had a patron who gave him enoug...
2020, November
109733 TIL That in 2007, Rockstar Games allowed fans t...
108725 TIL why Five Guys gives extra fries at the bott...
108641 TIL Gordon Ramsay set up a business inside a Lo...
107103 TIL the Hawaiian island of Kauai encourages tou...
96255 TIL - CIA revealed a "heart attack" gun in 1975...
91437 TIL that elephants are tremendous distance swim...
91019 TIL James Earl Jones decided to go uncredited f...
88289 TIL firefighters that responded to last year's ...
83171 TIL about the symbiotic relationship of wolves ...
79436 TIL America's oldest, unbroken treaty relations...
2020, October
116522 TIL in 1980 the FBI formed a fake company and a...
114860 TIL a very frugal librarian, the late Robert Mo...
109378 TIL the founder of Hyundai was born to an impov...
99291 TIL Mel Gibson could not get any studio to fund...
99069 TIL in the 1790s, an Oxford student introduced ...
92170 TIL in 1506, a 1000+ year old statue was uneart...
91166 TIL that "All Along the Watchtower" was a Bob D...
89078 TIL that when Eli Wallach, who played "The Ugly...
87849 TIL scientists used 2,000 year old seeds to reg...
85325 TIL that someone in New York state bought an ol...
2020, September
137551 TIL Costco's hot dog has remained $1.50 since i...
111051 TIL that Persian King Agha Mohammad Khan ordere...
110339 TIL The ashes of Stephen Hawking were buried be...
102052 TIL while Sharon was giving up, sick in bed wit...
99583 TIL that in Japan, if a working day falls betwe...
99526 TIL in 2015 a fan of the Austrailian band Pekin...
98525 TIL that when Winston Churchill Sold Chartwell,...
96646 TIL Dreamworks used to punish their animators w...
96194 TIL that the Michelin Man is white is because r...
93821 TIL that as a schoolboy, JRR Tolkien felt "bitt...
2020, August
146528 TIL a fan drove three hours to deliver rapper, ...
141707 TIL The cast of FRIENDS each made $1M per episo...
113400 TIL United Airlines had assured a blind woman t...
108486 TIL that in “Forrest Gump,†when his microp...
105931 TIL: Teddy Roosevelt was chosen as Vice Preside...
104720 TIL Jim Carrey was the first actor to have thre...
102890 TIL that “TurboTax Free†is not actually fr...
102612 TIL learned that in 1985 a guy programmed his c...
102458 TIL that in 2020 two rival Drug Cartels Decided...
102198 TIL Ghostbusters actor Ernie Hudson, who played...
2020, July
125340 TIL that everyone in Singapore above the age of...
124902 TIL “Military Grade†is just a marketing pl...
113853 TIL That while filming Tokyo Drift, they couldn...
104478 TIL a suicide bomber with explosives in his lap...
104236 TIL Seth Putnam, lead singer of the grindcore b...
100982 TIL Fred Rogers proposed to his wife Joanne via...
100035 TIL that LBJ constantly asked the flight crew o...
99733 TIL in 1954, Ernest Hemingway survived two plan...
95569 TIL that a man in the UK grew tired of cold cal...
94424 TIL that five Lithuanian soldiers serving in a ...
2020, June
148984 TIL During an interview with Stephen Hawking, t...
130270 TIL many doctors have stopped calling cancer tr...
109350 TIL in Lord of War starring Nicholas Cage, they...
107753 TIL that the firm Cantor Fitzgerald lost 658 em...
107707 TIL a guide dog named Roselle led a group of pe...
107583 TIL after writing the main riff of Seven Nation...
106740 TIL After Martin Luther King was killed in 1968...
100785 TIL that even though Philo Farnsworth, the inve...
99203 TIL "Nearly 75 percent of all aluminum ever pro...
97864 TIL that Ethan Zuckerman, the man who invented ...
2020, May
145189 TIL the FBI has struggled to hire hackers becau...
115049 TIL Six Georgia inmates out on work detail save...
107946 TIL that an outlaw isn't any mere criminal, but...
104690 TIL a local folk remedy in Boho, Ireland was to...
96278 TIL that Ancient Babylonians did math in base 6...
96108 TIL that an annual supply of bottled water for ...
95873 TIL Even though he received surgery to correct ...
93367 TIL that thanks to his Internet popularity, the...
92363 TIL after a student failed the math portion of ...
91383 TIL That Avatar: The Last Airbender won a Peabo...
2020, April
134957 TIL a waitress was tipped a lottery ticket and ...
123985 TIL Canadian researchers watched 40 episodes of...
117564 TIL Dr. Phil lost his license to practise psych...
111870 TIL 29-yr-old Marine veteran Taylor Winston sto...
95521 TIL that when quirky theatrical producer David ...
94846 TIL of Gabe Sonnier, a man who started off as a...
94407 TIL: Patch Adams only agreed to the 1999 film o...
91226 TIL Less than a quarter of U.S. workers report ...
91084 TIL a principal once punished a mischievous stu...
89614 TIL “Mushroom management†is where employee...
2020, March
111874 TIL a New Jersey man bought a $5 bottle of oran...
111654 TIL Garden Veggie Straws, which shows fresh veg...
108091 TIL Dogs get sprayed by Skunks so often because...
102351 TIL The bellybutton is so dirty scientists are ...
102304 TIL: You are less likely to die during an econo...
102145 TIL 22-yr-old Canadian man John McCue took it u...
99780 TIL Research shows that starting school at 10am...
92372 TIL of patient AB - "the first and only instanc...
87815 TIL that, in America, before TV was on 24 hours...
86682 TIL a New York deaf man sued Pornhub for not pr...
2020, February
113845 TIL a Georgia teacher who bought a $400 travel ...
111118 TIL that Jimmy Carter is the longest-lived pres...
107623 TIL in 1995, France found a man guilty of killi...
94381 TIL of Kelly, a dolphin whose trainers gave her...
91067 TIL the Nazis ordered 2 Auschwitz prisoners to ...
90709 TIL Shrek was originally given a thick Canadian...
87755 TIL of Jackie Coogan, a child actor in the sile...
86132 TIL Casey Anthony had “fool-proof suffocation...
81580 TIL the line of thinking 'If I Can't Have It, N...
80942 TIL that roundabouts reduce fatalities from acc...
2020, January
139555 TIL that millennial dads are spending 3 times a...
130216 TIL Romans were known to create tombs for their...
109109 TIL that Japan has chosen Dragon Ball Z's Goku ...
96276 TIL in 1714, a Norwegian captain and an English...
96025 TIL that in Singapore, people who opt-out of do...
93499 TIL during 2005 in Glendale, CA a suicidal man ...
90006 TIL NYPD officer John Perry was turning in his ...
89637 TIL that Robert Downey Jr. only got clean becau...
83974 TIL a Florida man accidentally locked his 1 yr ...
80083 TIL in 1990, the high school dropout rate in Se...
