r/todayilearned is a subreddit with 41.6M members. The community frequently discusses til, looking, found, lookingfor, and struggling, and they frequently recommend/review condom, and the most common flair used is frequent/recent repost: removed, (r.1) not verifiable, (r.4) related to politics, (r.1) tenuous evidence, and (r.3) recent source.
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Popular Topics in r/todayilearned
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Til
97 posts
#2
Looking
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#3
Found
39 posts
#4
Lookingfor
39 posts
#5
Struggling
7 posts
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Worst
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History
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Pope
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#9
Caddyshack
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#10
Youtube
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Flair Used in r/todayilearned
#1
Frequent/Recent Repost: Removed
: "TIL That Cleopatra was ethnically Greek and not Egyptian"
13 posts
#2
(R.1) Not verifiable
: "TIL In 1926, Agatha Christie vanished for 11 days after a fight with her husband, sparking a massive manhunt. She was found safe at a spa hotel, registered under the surname of her husband's mistress. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle became involved by taking one of her gloves to a psychic to help find her"
4 posts
#3
(R.4) Related To Politics
: "TIL In the U.S., 90% of households have AC. Meanwhile In Europe Just 20% on average have AC. In some countries, such as the UK, that number falls to less than 5%. Also, most European nations don’t have the grid infrastructure to support mass AC adoption."
4 posts
#4
(R.1) Tenuous evidence
: "TIL that for 50 million years, dead trees didn't decompose because the microbes capable of digesting wood hadn't evolved yet. The dead trees just piled up miles deep, eventually being crushed into the massive coal reserves we use today."
3 posts
#5
(R.3) Recent source
: "TIL that Christopher Nolan's older brother Matthew Nolan is an alleged assassin who used the alias "Oppenheimer""
3 posts
#6
Repost: Removed
: "TIL that during WWII, the US military developed the T13 Beano Grenade to be exactly the size, weight, and shape of a standard baseball. The theory was that almost any young American man would already know how to throw it with accuracy and distance."
2 posts
#7
reposted to death
: "TIL Males of all ages are consistently over-represented in fatal vehicle collisions, and account for an average of 70%, whereas females typically account for 30%"
2 posts
#8
(R.6d) Too General
: "TIL the Nehru-Ghandi family, who has lead the Indian National Congress for most it's history, is unrelated to Mahatma Gandhi"
2 posts
#9
Paywall/Survey Wall
: "TIL that a Canadian academic study on Mother Teresa found that her clinics often lacked proper pain medication due to a philosophy that glorified human suffering, while she herself received advanced care in modern Western hospitals."
1 post
#10
(R.1) Not supported
: "TIL Jefferson scholars denied for generations that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman in his household, until a 1998 DNA study established his paternity."
1 post
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Last updated: July 26, 2026