/r/todayilearned - top ten submissions for each month of 2021
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2021, December
112675 TIL that Javier Bardem's performance as Anton C...
98663 TIL GM recalled 800k cars in 2014 for faulty ig...
78300 TIL about environmental activist Julia “Butte...
73603 TIL The Soup Nazi from Seinfeld was based on Al...
70559 TIL Jurassic Park was meant to use stop motion ...
63139 TIL of Theodore Hall, among the youngest Manhat...
60629 TIL I learned that in 2002, two airplanes colli...
58150 TIL a cancer treatment known as Dynamic Phototh...
57647 TIL: When the Titanic rammed an iceberg, Willia...
56816 TIL that nature has evolved different species i...
2021, November
97488 TIL after the massive success of his #1 hit "So...
83093 TIL that an underachieving Princeton student wr...
79495 TIL a Brazilian priest strapped himself to 1000...
72558 TIL Cats domesticated themselves. They existed ...
66607 TIL 3 days before D-Day, a 21 year old Irish wo...
66538 TIL that a pilot's 16 year old son was allowed ...
65890 TIL the 2006 movie Idiocracy was released in on...
62341 TIL In 1975 Elvis went to see a movie with his ...
60879 TIL in 1990 a Peter Maxwell of California owned...
59584 TIL about Ève Curie, the youngest daughter of ...
2021, October
113643 TIL Playboy ran a story that depicted a future ...
88186 TIL about the Finnish "Day-fine" system; most i...
82028 TIL that the CIA recruited one of Fidel Castro'...
67658 TIL that instead of taking their usual salaries...
63342 TIL about "Operation Moolah", which offered lar...
63074 TIL A duet sung by Freddie Mercury and Michael ...
62964 TIL When sliced bread was first announced in 19...
62906 TIL, While alcohol made from apples is called c...
60059 TIL Stephen Hawking found his Undergraduate wor...
59557 TIL Anchorage, Alaska, is almost equidistant fr...
2021, September
83765 TIL Due to casino distributions, every Seminole...
73903 TIL Mexico was the only country to protest the ...
73692 TIL hospitals throughout the NYC area were brac...
68533 TIL Harrison Ford was frozen in The Empire Stri...
67720 TIL two high school students found that despite...
59636 TIL Krabby Patty is a veggie burger, as he seri...
56848 TIL The Vatican has its own telescope staffed b...
55045 TIL that the FTC actually recommends against or...
53701 TIL that the song "Scary Monsters and Nice Spri...
50129 TIL when Muhammad Ali lost to Larry Holmes in 1...
2021, August
102682 TIL Nas listed his then 7-year-old daughter, De...
98195 TIL that Mike Judge moved to Texas and a storm ...
92605 TIL the McDonald's corporation quietly phased o...
82084 TIL Los Angeles is the first major city in the ...
74484 TIL that the details of the Manhattan Project w...
73345 TIL that when Wayne Rogers left M*A*S*H, the pr...
69798 TIL when he was 13, Davy Crockett attacked a sc...
68166 TIL Steve Harvey sent a television for Christma...
67346 TIL there is a group of wolves in British Colum...
67268 TIL beavers build their dams as an instinct to ...
2021, July
95114 TIL when Brendan Shanahan was 14 years old, he ...
92944 TIL Norway hires sherpas from Nepal to build pa...
90027 TIL Norway discovered oil in its country 40 yea...
87737 TIL A local fisherman in Costa Rica nursed a cr...
81443 TIL of Eliahu Itzkovitz, a Romanian Jew who wit...
76411 TIL Salvador Dali once conned Yoko Ono into pay...
74918 TIL that Jimmy Carter is the longest-lived pres...
72732 TIL American rapper Jay-Z stabbed a man at an a...
67069 TIL that while only 9.7% of Americans don't wea...
66537 TIL of "Psychogenic death" - when a person give...
2021, June
128424 TIL before any details of Pixar’s ‘Soul’ ...
98458 TIL that in 1986 an astronomer trying to trace ...
98328 TIL a homeless man found a 10 000$ check on the...
91093 TIL when former NFL safety Dave Duerson took hi...
90922 TIL as a prank, a man once climbed Mount Hood i...
82577 TIL Michael Jackson was a virtuoso composer, de...
81459 TIL During World War II, an American lieutenant...
78982 TIL that Maui in Maori Mythology- who influence...
76295 TIL Shrek was selected for preservation in the ...
73869 TIL in 1965, Arnold Schwarzenegger went AWOL in...
2021, May
94477 TIL Texas didn’t have safety regulations on n...
94107 TIL Pope Benedict XVI resigned in 2013, but ann...
92851 TIL that at the age of 17, Steven Spielberg dir...
92381 TIL a Japanese man noticed food disappearing in...
88045 TIL It would take 375,000 Lego bricks stacked o...
84511 TIL that the north star is 4000 times brighter ...
83245 TIL although Wayne’s World (1992) was release...
76596 TIL British Parliament had an official discussi...
75819 TIL author H.P. Lovecraft was never able to sup...
75387 TIL that veterinarians kill themselves at rates...
2021, April
112789 TIL Judith Love Cohen, who helped create the Ab...
102212 TIL when former 'Tonight Show' host Johnny Cars...
102039 TIL about FBI agent Robert Hanssen. He was task...
99697 TIL that in 1995, a man received a "check" for ...
96107 TIL ADHD doesn't always mean 'short attention s...
92786 TIL the most successful Nazi interrogator in wo...
82827 TIL that James K. Polk is the only US president...
81233 TIL Tame Impala is a single person named Kevin ...
80507 TIL Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and hund...
80058 TIL that Casey Kasem, the original voice of Sha...
2021, March
134175 TIL: Microsoft tried a 4-day workweek in Japan ...
110840 TIL that the F.B.I. and C.I.A. recruit heavily ...
110174 TIL a 75-year Harvard study found close relatio...
107415 TIL fish eggs can survive and hatch after passi...
106214 TIL that Samuel L. Jackson heard someone repeat...
101007 TIL when a 400-year rare old Japanese bonsai tr...
98370 TIL: Researchers taught African grey parrots to...
95205 TIL that a woman who successfully underwent a l...
95198 TIL that Wayne Gretzky is the only Hockey playe...
93241 TIL in the months before his sudden death, form...
2021, February
152592 TIL Genghis Khan would marry off a daughter to ...
132579 TIL that William Whipple, one of the 56 signers...
112110 TIL Shia LaBeouf came under heavy fire for plag...
96972 TIL GoldeneEye 007’s multiplayer mode was so ...
96200 TIL that eight years after JFK’s assassinatio...
94738 TIL Joseph Bazalgette, the man who designed Lon...
94161 TIL Judge Judy earns $47 MILLION a year for tap...
91075 TIL on the set of Blade: Trinity, Jessica Biel ...
90829 TIL Apple's policy of refusing to repair phones...
89138 TIL that an ancient Roman oracle once prophesie...
2021, January
159042 TIL that slaveholders in the US knew that ensla...
118092 TIL Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has disdain ...
117901 TIL that a school principal once made a student...
103549 TIL astronomer Harlow Shapley firmly believed t...
103134 TIL Steve Jobs never coded for Apple. According...
100938 TIL Larry Hillblom, the H of DHL, regularly too...
98071 TIL that four high-school students in the ‘70...
97913 TIL a majority of the people Christopher Walken...
90159 TIL that in the 1830s the Swedish Navy planted ...
84635 TIL that 30 years ago you had 15-17 minutes to ...
