r/todayilearned is a subreddit with 41.5M members. The community frequently discusses til, looking, found, lookingfor, and history, and they frequently recommend/review condom, and the most common flair used is frequent/recent repost: removed, (r.6d) too general, (r.4) related to politics, rule 4, and invalid source.
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Til
502 posts
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Looking
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Found
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Lookingfor
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History
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Struggling
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Today
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Worst
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Hard
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Hate
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#1
Frequent/Recent Repost: Removed
: "TIL that Hershey's Chocolate and Hershey's Ice Cream are completely separate companies. Both were founded in Pennsylvania in 1894 by men named Hershey, but the founders weren't related."
11 posts
#2
(R.6d) Too General
: "TIL a woman bought a lottery scratch-off out of spite to prove her husband was wasting money, and won $1 million"
8 posts
#3
(R.4) Related To Politics
: "TIL four times as many Europeans die from heat-related deaths annually than Americans do from gun violence"
4 posts
#4
Rule 4
: "TIL Bill Clinton’s biological father was married five times (two were sisters) by the time he was 28 and Bill was the child of his fifth (and bigamous) marriage."
4 posts
#5
Invalid Source
: "TIL that Ancient Greek had no word for blue. Homer's Odyssey describes the sea as "wine-dark" and never calls the sky blue. Researchers studying the Himba tribe in Namibia who also lack a word for blue found they struggle to pick a blue square out of green squares, but can instantly identify sha"
3 posts
#6
(R.3) Recent source
: "TIL Cristiano Ronaldo is of Cape Verdian descent."
2 posts
#7
Repost List
: "TIL thousands of British and German soldiers stopped fighting on Christmas Day in 1914, exchanged gifts, buried their dead together, and in some places even played football before returning to war the next day"
2 posts
#8
(R.5) Misleading
: "TIL Acadians were a stateless French people who lived peacefully alongside Native American tribes for 150 years, until the British mass-deported them during the Seven Years’ War. Native tribes protected and sheltered escapees, while deportees went on to become what we now know as the Cajun people."
1 post
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Repost: Removed
: "TIL that the thinnest building in Lebanon, at only 2 feet wide at its narrowest point, was built after a brotherly inheritance fight for their father’s 2 properties. When one of them got the smaller plot, they built an extremely skinny building in order to block the sea view of his brother’s house."
1 post
#10
(R.5) Out of context
: "TIL in 1987, Chinese artist Xu Bing published a book containing thousands of made-up Chinese characters, arranged like a Ming dynasty woodblock manuscript. People in China now use the title of his book (天書) as shorthand to mean "incomprehensible gibberish" or "nonsense"."
1 post
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Last updated: June 30, 2026