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2023, December
48600 TIL in 1943, a US bomber over Germany was hit b...
40708 TIL A company in Japan gives employees who don'...
39751 TIL a New Zealand woman was detained in Kazakhs...
32826 TIL the hacker group anonymous tried to hack a ...
32680 TIL “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” is the ...
32206 TIL after getting LASIK surgery, Horace Grant c...
29292 TIL that Queen Victoria was raised on to the 'K...
29263 TIL of Dr. Benjamin Spock, a pediatrician whose...
27362 TIL in 1972, astronaut Neil Armstrong visited t...
26704 TIL that Better Call Saul was nominated for 53 ...
2023, November
40893 TIL in 1963 a 16 year old sent a 4 question sur...
39840 TIL James Earl Jones was officially replaced as...
39061 TIL a death row inmate in Tennessee discovered ...
38143 TIL that Disney attempted to trademark the cent...
34536 TIL Coco Chanel tried to screw over her Jewish ...
33072 TIL Aretha Franklin required that she be paid i...
31305 TIL about Darius McCollum, a man who was arrest...
29642 TIL that Skoda test their car horns 150,000 tim...
28205 TIL any person who succesfuly parachutes out of...
27526 TIL Alaska is so large and deserted, it has the...
2023, October
50130 TIL that in 2015 a 46 yr-old woman accidentally...
42821 TIL The role of April Ludgate in Parks and Recr...
36017 TIL The firm who repaired seat covers on San Fr...
35389 TIL the Australian Navy formally enlisted a six...
34061 TIL that mathematician John von Neumann had an ...
33510 TIL in his old age Marlon Brando spent hours in...
33123 TIL that in 2011 a court in the U.K. banned a m...
32080 TIL that instead of using his Make-A-Wish for s...
31225 TIL that "Jews for Hitler" was a real organizat...
31038 TIL Michelin started reviewing restaurants so p...
2023, September
52609 TIL that in the event that the moon landing fai...
46158 TIL: Local Indonesian mythology says that Orang...
39590 TIL Jane Kaczmarek was nominated by the Emmys f...
36031 TIL that when a Japanese pilot was accepted int...
35754 TIL there is an IQ floor (80 points) to serve i...
33506 TIL when US President Harding died unexpectedly...
33449 TIL about the "Gimli Glider", a Boeing 767 jet ...
33098 TIL In Jerusalem, there is an 'immovable ladder...
33017 TIL ant corpses release a chemical when they di...
32739 TIL that the Japanese have a word "Busshu-suru"...
2023, August
51529 TIL the Majority of Millennials and Gen Z use s...
47979 TIL: The amount of abs you can attain is purely...
47628 TIL in 1993 a fan at a Chicago Bulls game won a...
46199 TIL that Jim Carrey was paid $7 million for ''D...
44780 TIL that MIT will award a Certificate in Piracy...
42291 TIL Svalbard, Norway is the only visa-free zone...
41384 TIL that in the 2022 World Cup, Qatar became th...
40112 TIL of Triboulet: a Royal jester for King Franc...
39614 TIL that Mike Brown, the astronomer most respon...
38931 TIL There's a Japanese beetle that when eaten b...
2023, July
47592 TIL; Bayer knowingly sold AIDS Contaminated Hem...
46786 TIL Jet Li turned down a role in The Matrix Rel...
45532 TIL that after filing a lawsuit for assault aga...
43687 TIL in 2013 two Iranian F-4 Phantoms attempted ...
42348 TIL that when Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981, h...
41808 TIL: Momofuku Ando, the inventor of insta ramen...
40451 TIL Keanu Reeves has never won an Oscar, Golden...
40131 TIL In 2022, 68 year-old Maya Murmu was collect...
40116 TIL that in 2017 all GPS coordinates in Austral...
2023, June
78797 TIL Mr. T stopped wearing virtually all his gol...
66289 TIL Many haunted houses have been investigated ...
65039 TIL that rapper Redman outed MTV Cribs as compl...
62903 TIL that Walmart tried and failed to establish ...
57426 TIL a victim of the SS Atlantic wreck was found...
56506 TIL Fungi in Chernobyl appear to be feeding off...
55363 TIL: TLC was the first all-female group to sell...
54092 TIL in 1998, a preservation group began restori...
48214 TIL that Sigourney Weaver only earned $35,000 f...
47423 TIL 91% of all the dives to the bottom of the M...
2023, May
104614 TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed ...
74711 TIL that Magnus Carlsen intentionally plays non...
66840 TIL Highway hypnosis, also known as white line ...
66442 TIL I learned that the the town of Boring (Oreg...
63591 TIL Sublime’s debut album "40oz. to Freedom" ...
61945 TIL of the Jim twins, separated at birth and re...
60493 TIL birth rates in the U.S. have dropped more t...
57502 TIL that when Zlatan Ibrahimovic signed for MLS...
56787 TIL the last writers strike in 2008 led the fir...
55242 TIL that the deepest scuba dive of all time was...
2023, April
87720 TIL that a 2019 Union College study found that ...
75192 TIL the production for Mork and Mindy had to hi...
72630 TIL: The consensus is that octopuses are most l...
69809 TIL of a Brazilian football referee that stabbe...
66536 TIL of a court in France which stopped a girl b...
62409 TIL that when a man had a heart attack at a gro...
61863 TIL that Patrick Stewart, a theater actor, was ...
61136 TIL that the once-ubiquitous "Mmm... Toasty!" Q...
60393 TIL During pregnancy, if the mother suffers org...
58462 TIL that is not possible to exceed the weight l...
2023, March
96381 TIL: an Italian former porn star, Carlo Masi, q...
86338 TIL by passing a law requiring pharmacies to be...
85861 TIL Thomas Jefferson was so impressed by macaro...
84298 TIL A High School Teacher who coerced teens int...
81859 TIL that the reason we see fewer fireflies nowa...
81691 TIL in 1952, Jimmy Carter led a team of nuclear...
81087 TIL the Myers-Briggs has no scientific basis wh...
74376 TIL Crypto.com mistakenly sent a customer $10.5...
63709 TIL that Channel 5 was the only major UK televi...
60359 TIL When random people of varying physical attr...
2023, February
100936 TIL about Third Man Syndrome. An unseen presenc...
92124 TIL of "Earthquake diplomacy" between Turkey an...
85436 TIL that dogs intentionally try to make humans ...
83277 TIL : TIL a female reporter attempted to recrea...
80844 TIL Procrastination is not a result of laziness...
80257 TIL that in The Shawshank Redemption, when Morg...
77768 TIL that during Prince's Super Bowl halftime sh...
75509 TIL The average life span of a pet cat has rise...
70136 TIL: Founding Father and author of the Bill of ...
69075 TIL Mount Everest is named after Sir George Eve...
2023, January
94367 TIL Terry Crews said the reason Fox didn't prom...
86574 TIL: To "protect the truth," a woman recorded h...
81637 TIL Hirsoshima, Japan is one of the few places ...
80595 TIL Fender Guitars did a study and found that 9...
77936 TIL more than 1 in 10 Americans have no close f...
76183 TIL, after U.S. President Garfield was shot, hi...
75197 TIL of a very rare condition called Anton syndr...
71213 TIL the "empty London" scenes in 28 Days Later ...
67855 TIL a woman flying from Manchester to Florida h...
65866 TIL the USA was supposed to adopt the metric sy...
