/r/todayilearned - top ten submissions for each month of 2022
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2022, December
112726 TIL after being scolded by a woman who felt tha...
86505 TIL Ozzy Osbourne gave up taking acid during th...
82667 TIL brussels sprouts used to have a bitter tast...
70685 TIL about the small town of Swastika, Ontario. ...
69810 TIL ,in 1997, a Russian poacher, Vladimir Marko...
65902 TIL that in 2011 a Russian would-be suicide bom...
60704 TIL that most, if not all, uncontacted groups l...
60538 TIL that famed aviator, Charles Lindbergh, once...
57007 TIL David Bowie used to travel around in New Yo...
55773 TIL about Tommy Manville, the heir to the Johns...
2022, November
88936 TIL Princess Diana didn't initially die at the ...
85984 TIL Tomatoes are native to the Americas, so the...
84009 TIL Andre Agassi won 10 of 11 matches after see...
83752 TIL no child has been harmed or killed by poiso...
82307 TIL boxer Jack Johnson was once pulled over for...
81731 TIL 27% of Americans 18 and older have cut off ...
78229 TIL Actor Kevin Bacon pays off DJ’s when he a...
76910 TIL that photographer Carol Highsmith donated t...
74114 TIL that in 1977 Bob Marley was diagnosed with ...
72828 TIL that George Washington asked to be bled hea...
2022, October
93242 TIL in the early 90s LL Cool J shared with his ...
90850 TIL During the 2000's, Google, Apple, Adobe, In...
86155 TIL the pet food company Chewy sends flowers an...
72447 TIL that Steve McQueen had a habit of demanding...
72309 TIL in 2016 a man ate a ghost pepper in an eati...
69337 TIL that the disability with the highest unempl...
63771 TIL The band Redbone, who played the 70’s hit...
63174 TIL in 1912 4 yr-old Bobby Dunbar disappeared, ...
62949 TIL Sugar does not cause hyperactivity in child...
62456 TIL since its premiere in 1987 the show Unsolve...
2022, September
77135 TIL that in response to fans demanding the show...
70241 TIL that Jimmy Carter, at 97, is the oldest liv...
69778 TIL that in 1845 79 people died in a bridge col...
63872 TIL Senator Strom Thurmond had a child out of w...
63502 TIL prostitution is illegal in Japan but the la...
62173 TIL: In 1990 a courier was robbed on a street i...
60637 TIL Hummingbirds have an exceptional memory due...
59152 TIL that in 2006, FBI agents attempted to arres...
57498 TIL The Carmen Sandiego Show (1991-1995; 295 ep...
56253 TIL an Orange County man named Jeff Reitz went ...
2022, August
72516 TIL that 65% of cancer survivors surveyed by wa...
64511 TIL: In the 25 years since Ron Goldman’s fami...
60959 TIL during a preview of the Sistine Chapel pain...
59866 TIL landlords in Glasgow, Scotland tried to inc...
59268 TIL that in 2013 a climber found a box full of ...
57250 TIL in 2013 a surgeon in the UK was struck off ...
53050 TIL that there's something called the "prepared...
52347 TIL that Nike created a pair of shoes that were...
49462 TIL 36-yr-old Jamie Siminoff founded the compan...
47161 TIL that The British Pound is the oldest curren...
2022, July
76818 TIL that Billie Joe Armstrong once dropkicked a...
75067 TIL that New Zealand author Janet Frame was fal...
73099 TIL that when Yoshitaro Shibasaki and his team ...
71189 TIL about Janet Stephens, a hair stylist turned...
70848 TIL Eleanor Roosevelt held her own press confer...
66414 TIL traditional grass lawns originated as a sta...
65971 TIL at a 1915 auction, Cecil Chubb bought Stone...
60637 TIL Andromachi Papanicolaou, the wife of the ma...
60365 TIL that George Washington lost as many battles...
60074 TIL after General Dwight D. Eisenhower found vi...
2022, June
88637 TIL: Bats eat enough insects to save the US ove...
87425 TIL George Lucas not only gave his blessing to ...
86369 TIL that in the operatic song in The Fifth Elem...
74847 TIL that Batman's suit, arsenal of awesome gadg...
72687 TIL Wells Fargo was forced by the feds to rehir...
69109 TIL Darius McCollum, a New Yorker diagnosed wit...
66163 TIL that an FBI informant secretly wore a wire ...
62132 TIL that during World War II, the United States...
57029 TIL the Masai Tribe in Africa donated 14 cows t...
56936 TIL United Airlines once forgot to escort a bli...
2022, May
116871 TIL in 2011, a 29-year-old Australian bartender...
83719 TIL that by letting a wolf population recover, ...
82172 TIL The Wright Brothers only flew together on t...
81179 TIL to collect taxes, Christian IV of Denmark a...
80447 TIL in 2000, an art exhibition in Denmark featu...
79866 TIL a father, John Crowley, was told his two in...
79581 TIL after the TV show Teletubbies ended, the ow...
79468 TIL that the new Rolls-Royce Ghost soundproofin...
69513 TIL that when Abraham Lincoln took off his Stov...
68513 TIL that Harambe’s mother, only full brother,...
2022, April
92343 TIL that after Lance Armstrong was stripped of ...
90623 TIL dogs "play sneeze" when they're feeling exc...
77601 TIL that Outback Steakhouse was founded in Tamp...
76011 TIL the IRS still operates largely on mainframe...
69046 TIL when one adventurer drove a Jeep Wrangler t...
66622 TIL that Alan Turing (cryptographer responsible...
66198 TIL that when David Bowie died in 2016, the Ger...
65628 TIL that Harry Houdini had skepticism of anythi...
65526 TIL about “teaser†stallions whose job it i...
2022, March
149108 TIL that the Animal Planet reality series ‘Ri...
116581 TIL an FBI whistleblower reported multiple prob...
96317 TIL that a "Silent Man" in the UK repeatedly ge...
86203 TIL Wayne Gretzky's stats were so far ahead of ...
84446 TIL: Robin Williams autopsy revealed he had abo...
70876 TIL that the Nazis funded search missions for t...
70193 TIL the New State Assembly voted to honor Bruce...
66271 TIL during WW1, Canadians exploited the trust o...
62883 TIL in 2015 an Australian woman put a bet on a ...
61385 TIL that two dim stars from the Big Dipper serv...
2022, February
122772 TIL George Miller had his wife Margaret Sixel e...
95522 TIL in 2009 Burger King ran the "Whopper sacrif...
86100 TIL someone translated Dracula into Icelandic a...
84740 TIL during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, R...
84248 TIL Lonnie Johnson, the man who created the “...
79759 TIL that the fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis...
67924 TIL that In World War II, British spies plotted...
66771 TIL a female reporter attempted to recreate the...
64831 TIL in 1999, financial analyst Harry Markopolos...
2022, January
92818 TIL Jonah Hill was only paid $60,000 to appear ...
79940 TIL: The inventor of shopping carts, Sylvan Gol...
74192 TIL a depressed man built a secret room within ...
73358 TIL In 2017, scientists began a global search t...
71667 TIL the British Hedgehog Preservation Society w...
71242 TIL Burt Reynolds took revenge from National En...
70296 TIL NASA only uses 15 digits of pi for calculat...
68953 TIL that in the 1800s, US dairy producers would...
67318 TIL Dolly Parton sleeps in make-up (and washes ...
62649 TIL A boneless ham is a ham from which the bone...
