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Popular Themes in r/todayilearned
#1
News
: "TIL an NFL player intentionally crashed his car to avoid getting cut for being late to a team meeting."
25 posts
Popular Topics in r/todayilearned
#1
Til
94 posts
#2
Looking
38 posts
#3
Found
38 posts
#4
Lookingfor
38 posts
#5
Worst
7 posts
#6
Struggling
5 posts
#7
History
5 posts
#8
China
: "TIL that the youngest person to have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's is a 19-year-old boy from China."
4 posts
#9
Okinawa
: "TIL that in 1945, villagers in a remote Okinawan town killed three African American service members and hid the bodies in a cave. The local community kept the secret for 52 years until a 1997 tip, and no charges were ever filed because the statute of limitations had expired"
4 posts
#10
Caddyshack
3 posts
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#1
(R.6d) Too General
: "TIL George Clooney secretly scooped his roommate Richard Kind’s cat litter for weeks, convincing him his cat had stopped pooping. When Kind started worrying the cat was constipated, Clooney escalated the prank by taking a dump in the litter box himself."
6 posts
#2
Frequent/Recent Repost: Removed
: "TIL redheads are linked to higher anesthesia tolerance"
6 posts
#3
(R.4) Related To Politics
: "TIL a prisoner in 1803 survived three hangings. The rope snapped twice and slipped of his head once, at which point the assembled crowd agreed that it was a sign from God that he had not committed a crime deserving of execution. He later died escaping prison when he was swept out to sea by a storm."
4 posts
#4
(R.1) Not verifiable
: "TIL the hit show Ted Lasso was based on this skit from 13 years ago"
4 posts
#5
Rule 4
: "TIL that in 1945, villagers in Katsuyama, Okinawa killed three marines accused of raping local women and hid their bodies in a cave. The killings were kept secret for 52 years, and no one was ever charged because the suspects had died and the statute of limitations had expired"
4 posts
#6
Word Origin/Translation/Definition, removed
: "TIL Spam emails get their name from a Monty Python sketch in which two people are tryin to order a meal in a cafe but every option on the menu comes with spam. One customer asks to have his meal without spam but soon all conversation is drowned out by the increasingly loud shouts of 'SPAM!'"
3 posts
#7
Invalid Source
: "TIL that when male anglerfish find a mate, they permanently fuse their tissue and bloodstream together. The male lives by sharing the female's blood and provides sperm. The anglerfish is one of only 20 species that use sexual parisitism for reproduction."
3 posts
#8
(R.1) Invalid src
: "TIL George Washington once broke up a brawl involving around 1,000 soldiers by jumping off his horse, charging into the fight and grabbing two large men by the throat, holding one at arm’s length in each hand. The rest of the soldiers saw him and scattered."
1 post
#9
Word Origin/Translation/Definition, removed
: "TIL that "liberal arts" actually encompasses most sciences and is not just about fine arts and humanities. Mathematics and physics are examples of liberal arts degrees."
1 post
#10
(R.2) Anecdote
: "TIL Nicolas Cage once took magic mushrooms with his cat after discovering the cat had eaten some from a bag in his refrigerator. The two stared at each other for hours, and Cage said he became convinced the cat was his brother."
1 post
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Last updated: October 4, 2026