r/todayilearned is a subreddit with 41.6M members. The community frequently discusses til, looking, found, lookingfor, and worst, and they frequently recommend/review condom, and the most common flair used is frequent/recent repost: removed, (r.3) recent source, (r.6d) too general, (r.4) related to politics, and (r.1) invalid src.
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Til
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Looking
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Found
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Lookingfor
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Worst
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Struggling
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History
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Caddyshack
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Lose Weight
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Razzie
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#1
Frequent/Recent Repost: Removed
: "TIL Christopher Lee was the only member of the Lord of the Rings cast who had actually met J.R.R. Tolkien. They crossed paths by chance in the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford. Lee, a lifelong fan who reread LOTR every year, was so nervous all he said was "How do you do?""
12 posts
#2
(R.3) Recent source
: "TIL the company behind Disney World’s Tree of Life took its theme park expertise and turned it into a business disguising cell towers as trees. California is now its biggest market."
4 posts
#3
(R.6d) Too General
: "TIL that Drew Barrymore’s godparents include two Hollywood legends: actress Sophia Loren as her godmother and director Steven Spielberg as her godfather."
4 posts
#4
(R.4) Related To Politics
: "TIL: Eyes of female shrimp are systematically cut off, pinched, or burned away in nearly every commercial shrimp farm in order to stimulate more egg production"
3 posts
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(R.1) Invalid src
: "TIL from 2011 - 2021 the South Korean Customs Service had seized 62,104 capsules made from the flesh of human beings. The pills were marketed to buyers as "Health Tonics" for stamina, vitality and to cure disease"
3 posts
#6
Rule 4
: "TIL that in 1938, a manufacturer printed fake Social Security cards for their wallets sold at Woolworth's. Some buyers used the number as their own as late as 1977."
2 posts
#7
(R.5) Omits Essential Info
: "TIL NASA named a crated on the moon "Wan-Hoo", after 'Wan-Hu', an ancient Chinese official who strapped kites and 47 rockets to a chair in order to reach space. His body was never found."
1 post
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(R.2) Anecdote
: "TIL that actor M. Emmet Walsh was known for giving $2 bills to crew members, with the advice, "Don't spend it, and you'll never be broke.""
1 post
#9
(R.2) Opinion
: "TIL that Hitler was never elected. He was named Chancellor, equivalent to prime minister, then named himself "Führer" when Germany's president died in 1934."
1 post
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reposted to death
: "TIL that plans had originally proposed that Sesame Street’s Big Bird, and his actor Caroll Spinney were to be part of the crew on the doomed Challenger Space Shuttle"
1 post
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Last updated: September 13, 2026