THC Science

THE TOP 50 REPORT – 2017

Most viewed article of the day[edit]

Key
Reddit
Google
Television
Film
Sports
Politics
In the news
Disaster
Death
Holiday

Bold: Led the week's Top 25
Reddit articles without links have them in the respective week's Top 25

January[edit]

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
Jan. 1	Bielefeld Conspiracy [1]	396,474	44
Jan. 2	Götz von Berlichingen [2]	401,376	42
Jan. 3	Jimmy Carter	616,466	31
Jan. 4	Charles Manson	357,237	68
Jan. 5	Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7 [3]	269,097	22
Jan. 6	Om Puri	810,962	72
Jan. 7	Sandford Fleming	653,146	36
Jan. 8	Burnum Burnum [4]	376,183	23
Jan. 9	Ryan Gosling	588,065	79
Jan. 10	Marcel Petiot [5]	374,280	20
Jan. 11	Barack Obama	281,619	73
Jan. 12	Interstellar (film)	415,496	19
Jan. 13	Bill Werbeniuk [6]	513,235	32
Jan. 14	A Series of Unfortunate Events	352,365	73
Jan. 15	A Series of Unfortunate Events	318,607	73
Jan. 16	Queen Victoria	553,715	78
Jan. 17	Chelsea Manning	396,911	60
Jan. 18	Chelsea Manning	1,036,015	66
Jan. 19	Ludger Sylbaris	400,736[7]	34
Jan. 20	Donald Trump	2,050,488	68
Jan. 21		1,577,812	74
Jan. 22		705,094	71
Jan. 23	Ed Roberts (activist)	839,682	17
Jan. 24	Donald Trump	416,286	59
Jan. 25	Mary Tyler Moore	757,877	57
Jan. 26	Mary Tyler Moore	1,055,090	67
Jan. 27	Lincoln Logs [8]	501,173	25
Jan. 28	John Hurt	1,188,133	69
Jan. 29	Roger Federer	1,060,694	78
Jan. 30	Royal Rumble (2017)	1,485,291	64
Jan. 31	Sally Yates	748,781	51

February[edit]

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
Feb. 1	Neil Gorsuch	2,023,067	61
Feb. 2	Milo Yiannopoulos	753,671	58
Feb. 3	Milo Yiannopoulos	398,387	62
Feb. 4	Bowling Green Massacre	234,265	60
Feb. 5	2003 Boeing 727-223 disappearance	493,980	44
Feb. 6	Tom Brady	2,505,897	80
Feb. 7	Betsy DeVos	540,118	53
Feb. 8	Betsy DeVos	459,563	62
Feb. 9	Charles Oakley	272,470	71
Feb. 10	Jamie Hyneman [9]	245,277	23
Feb. 11	Omayra Sánchez [10]	354,916	58
Feb. 12	UFC 208	400,686	62
Feb. 13	Oroville Dam	554,201	47
Feb. 14	Valentine's Day	761,983	65
Feb. 15	Michael T. Flynn	217,296	60
Feb. 16	Jaguar [11]	190,475	29
Feb. 17	United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote [12]	204,130	34
Feb. 18	Tulsa race riot [13]	194,035	32
Feb. 19	Almon Brown Strowger [14]	279,682	17
Feb. 20	DeMarcus Cousins	248,237	73
Feb. 21	Mary (elephant)	593,882	46
Feb. 22	Buddhas of Bamiyan	400,398	39
Feb. 23	Discoveries of exoplanets	364,671	35
Feb. 24	VX (nerve agent)	498,746	54
Feb. 25	Ida Lewis (lighthouse keeper)	431,670	25
Feb. 26	Bill Paxton	2,470,116	79
Feb. 27	Moonlight (2016 film)	1,750,042	58
Feb. 28	Moonlight (2016 film)	561,589	56

Excluded:

Feb. 16: Alexander Hamilton - 98%
Feb 18: The Cat in the Hat Comes Back - no understable reason for spike

March[edit]

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
Mar 1	Ash Wednesday	342,759	61
Mar 2	Logan (film)	290,864	61
Mar 3		486,551	65
Mar 4		569,658	71
Mar 5		586,258	72
Mar 6	Fastlane (2017)	498,155	66
Mar 7	Logan (film)	317,270	62
Mar 8	International Women's Day	672,568	53
Mar 9	Shavarsh Karapetyan	402,271	28
Mar 10	Logan (film)	220,931	64
Mar 11		244,247	71
Mar 12		264,435	72
Mar 13	Holi	616,851	33
Mar 14	Blendo	576,093	39
Mar 15	Ides of March	218,569	48
Mar 16	Idiot plot	449,004	25
Mar 17	Saint Patrick's Day	1,508,611	57
Mar 18	Yogi Adityanath	617,336	83
Mar 19	Chuck Berry	1,032,407	67
Mar 20	David Rockefeller	392,259	57
Mar 21	Charo	468,346	87
Mar 22	BuzzFeed	309,571[15]	21
Mar 23	Dry county [16]	217,736	35
Mar 24	Power Rangers (film)	277,289	63
Mar 25	Devin Booker	258,261	81
Mar 26:	Power Rangers (film)	197,880	69
Mar 27	Chevy Chase [17]	239,117	16
Mar 28	PXL-2000	390,769	24
Mar 29	Joe Medicine Crow	534,225	26
Mar 30	It (novel)	303,352	59
Mar 31	Cincinnati Freedom [18]	259,752	19

Excluded March 7, XXX, 469,710; March 10, XXX (film series), 316,516

April[edit]

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
Apr. 1	April Fools' Day	442,770	44
Apr. 2	WrestleMania 33	401,376	42
Apr. 3	WrestleMania 33	1,566,746	67
Apr. 4	The Undertaker	311,692	75
Apr. 5	Thirteen Reasons Why	222,549	74
Apr. 6	Don Rickles	382,996	55
Apr. 7	Tomahawk (missile)	654,307	59
Apr. 8	13 Reasons Why	319,318	77
Apr. 9	13 Reasons Why	385,900	77
Apr. 10	Sergio García	811,432	78
Apr. 11	13 Reasons Why	383,970	77
Apr. 12	Charlie Murphy	810,278	71
Apr. 13	GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast	957,281	48
Apr. 14	GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast	569,468	48
Apr. 15	The Fate of the Furious	406,560	74
Apr. 16	Easter	396,999	78
Apr. 17	Bee Gees	626,735	83
Apr. 18	Esther Afua Ocloo	364,450	17
Apr. 19	Aaron Hernandez	2,108,020	68
Apr. 20		771,737	68
Apr. 21		328,141	68
Apr. 22	Casualties of the September 11 attacks [19]	360,946	33
Apr. 23	Erin Moran	1,131,616	74
Apr. 24	Emmanuel Macron	496,217	52
Apr. 25	13 Reasons Why	225,673	77
Apr. 26	13 Reasons Why	200,943	77
Apr. 27	Vinod Khanna	779,065	74
Apr. 28	Baahubali 2: The Conclusion	464,321	76
Apr. 29	Baahubali 2: The Conclusion	517,130	76
Apr. 30	Anthony Joshua	544,801	74

May[edit]

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
May 1	Red panda	531,630	32
May 2	Baahubali 2: The Conclusion	457,684	73
May 3		424,503	74
May 4		422,144	74
May 5	Cinco de Mayo	1,249,280	68
May 6	Cinco de Mayo	583,187	86
May 7	Emmanuel Macron	844,649	57
May 8	Emmanuel Macron	844,649	56
May 9	Ferdinand Monoyer	754,010	33
May 10	Christopher Boykin	495,803	82
May 11	Baahubali 2: The Conclusion	301,154	75
May 12	Baahubali 2: The Conclusion	283,486	75
May 13	Eurovision Song Contest 2017	364,926	61
May 14	Eurovision Song Contest 2017	414,669	53
May 15	Powers Boothe	375,390	57
May 16	Moors murders	484,430	68
May 17	Antikythera mechanism	1,124,489	32
May 18	Chris Cornell	2,318,353	62
May 19		1,151,834	69
May 20		389,006	70
May 21	Bernard Madoff	286,815	86
May 22	Richard Oakes (activist)	773,804	19
May 23	Ariana Grande	1,734,805	66
May 24	Ariana Grande	530,669	64
May 25	Police uniforms of the United States [20]	282,014	22
May 26	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	277,211	64
May 27	Egyptian calendar [21]	399,696	28
May 28	Gregg Allman	485,510	70
May 29	Carlos Kaiser (footballer)	348,443	41
May 30	Grumman LLV	247,236	26
May 31	Zaha Hadid	827,919	27

Excluded

May 14: Hamilton (musical), 99.85%

June[edit]

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
June 1	Paris Agreement	460,596	55
June 2	Paris Agreement	878,102	64
June 3	Wonder Woman (2017 film)	410,472	69
June 4	Ariana Grande	1,015,036	88
June 5	Ariana Grande	512,200	74
June 6	Bill Millin	450,658	30
June 7	Gal Gadot	345,123	70
June 8	James Comey	489,407	54
June 9	Democratic Unionist Party	894,446	54
June 10	Adam West	633,326	74
June 11	Adam West	479,233	72
June 12	Dear Evan Hansen	362,101	74
June 13	Kevin Durant	755,181	81
June 14	Steve Scalise	468,016	61
June 15	McLibel case [22]	264,884	13
June 16	Cyril Smith [23]	221,627	23
June 17	Susan La Flesche Picotte	250,966	48
June 18	2017 FIFA Confederations Cup	215,727	69
June 19	Brooks Koepka	545,120	83
June 20	Otto Warmbier	702,286	59
June 21	Transformers: The Last Knight	303,625	62
June 22	Oskar Fischinger	383,036	15
June 23	2017 NBA draft	329,750	52
June 24	Transformers: The Last Knight	199,075	69
June 25	Transformers: The Last Knight	201,911	70
June 26	1993 child sexual abuse accusations against Michael Jackson	356,842	20
June 27	Tubelight (film)	143,643	78
June 28	Michael Nyqvist	142,954	47
June 29	2017 FIFA Confederations Cup	131,406	62
June 30	Victor Hugo	379,150	17

July[edit]

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
Jul 1	Goods and Services Tax (India)	227,767	78
Jul 2	Manny Pacquiao	249,858	78
Jul 3	Mercedes McCambridge	316,966	22
Jul 4	Independence Day (United States)	546,217	74
Jul 5	Independence Day (United States)	274,957	82
Jul 6	Hustler	479,469	44
Jul 7	Omar Khadr	390,874	91
Jul 8	Spider-Man: Homecoming	368,946	72
Jul 9	Nelsan Ellis	409,101	75
Jul 10	Eva Ekeblad	1,371,052	19
Jul 11	Aaron Judge	612,957	84
Jul 12	Eiko Ishioka	306,957	18
Jul 13	Conor McGregor	276,952	68
Jul 14	Conor McGregor	306,609	69
Jul 15	Garbiñe Muguruza	495,873	80
Jul 16	Roger Federer	950,602	80
Jul 17	Game of Thrones (season 7)	622,010	58
Jul 18	Jason Jordan	576,189	78
Jul 19	Cephalopod intelligence	314,489	30
Jul 20	Chester Bennington	2,359,641	66
Jul 21		2,463,689	70
Jul 22		695,981	74
Jul 23		375,621	72
Jul 24	Game of Thrones (season 7)	367,105	53
Jul 25	Dunkirk (2017 film)	222,245	61
Jul 26	Thioacetone [24]	236,939	34
Jul 27	Jeff Bezos	261,928	54
Jul 28	Silent Parade	388,021	21
Jul 29	Dunkirk (2017 film)	189,885	71
Jul 30	UFC 214	554,438	66
Jul 31	Sam Shepard	811,678	56

August[edit]

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
Aug 1	Sam Shepard	811,678	56
Aug 2	Laverne Cox	539,919	86
Aug 3	Dolores del Río	383,790	27
Aug 4	Neymar	287,327	63
Aug 5	Justin Gatlin	413,573	86
Aug 6	Justin Gatlin	270,257	78
Aug 7	Game of Thrones (season 7)	456,521	55
Aug 8	Glen Campbell	257,567	64
Aug 9	Glen Campbell	569,977	63
Aug 10	United States military chocolate	473,603	42
Aug 11	Guam	257,631	59
Aug 12	Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park [25]	221,616	28
Aug 13	Robert E. Lee	171,617	70
Aug 14	Game of Thrones (season 7)	602,806	56
Aug 15	Luxor Las Vegas	418,960	45
Aug 16	Robert E. Lee	366,092	62
Aug 17	Robert E. Lee	348,398	63
Aug 18	Bruce Forsyth	451,854	75
Aug 19	"Lose Yourself"[26]	245,847	22
Aug 20	Jerry Lewis	638,778	73
Aug 21	Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017	893,364	59
Aug 22	Chad Smith	481,113	50
Aug 23	Kyrie Irving	224,977	75
Aug 24	Queen's Champion [27]	408,115	42
Aug 25	Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh	619,814	73
Aug 26	Conor McGregor	567,114	77
Aug 27	Floyd Mayweather Jr.	1,731,505	80
Aug 28	Game of Thrones (season 7)	700,827	52
Aug 29	Game of Thrones (season 7)	283,787	52
Aug 30	Hurricane Harvey	189,791	49
Aug 31	Blue Whale (game)	254,740	73

September[edit]

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
Sep 1	Blue Whale (game)	232,557	77
Sep 2	Blue Whale (game)	188,417	85
Sep 3	Nirmala Sitharaman	263,256	83
Sep 4	Introspection Rundown [28]	317,319	28
Sep 5	Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals	471,031	61
Sep 6	Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals	584,468	69
Sep 7	It (2017 film)	299,463	63
Sep 8		493,586	68
Sep 9		608,513	76
Sep 10		637,057	75
Sep 11		569,781	62
Sep 12		393,357	65
Sep 13		352,331	66
Sep 14		318,015	65
Sep 15	Mother!	305,414	61
Sep 16	Harry Dean Stanton	463,354	64
Sep 17	Gennady Golovkin	533,553	83
Sep 18	Samuel Johnson	590,763	32
Sep 19	Così fan tutte[29]	290,339	21
Sep 20	Oligodynamic effect	417,034	29
Sep 21	Concerns and controversies at the 2008 Summer Olympics [30]	198,634	19
Sep 22	Chronic traumatic encephalopathy	182,980	70
Sep 23	Asima Chatterjee	552,848	41
Sep 24	It (2017 film)	299,463	63
Sep 25	No Mercy (2017)	420,517	71
Sep 26	Gloria E. Anzaldúa	366,670	26
Sep 27	Lyle and Erik Menendez	273,716	86
Sep 28	Hugh Hefner	3,181,267	72
Sep 29		873,028	75
Sep 30		319,165	78

October[edit]

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
Oct 1	Catalonia	378,496	68
Oct 2	Tom Petty	1,822,980	64
Oct 3		2759776	69
Oct 4		484649	65
Oct 5	Kazuo Ishiguro	268,102	41
Oct 6	Blade Runner 2049	263,707	55
Oct 7	Ralphie May	342,662	79
Oct 8	UFC 216	331,595	64
Oct 9	Harvey Weinstein	451,720	62
Oct 10	Fridtjof Nansen	1,156,284	27
Oct 11	Harvey Weinstein	1,221,432	63
Oct 12		833,133	63
Oct 13		547,170	65
Oct 14		391,034	73
Oct 15		484,581	70
Oct 16	Olaudah Equiano	456,057	26
Oct 17	Selena	963,597	27
Oct 18	Boris Yeltsin	314,387	20
Oct 19	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	646,785	27
Oct 20	Diwali	161,214	71
Oct 21	Nain Singh Rawat	275,080	45
Oct 22	Tom Lehrer	397,052	33
Oct 23	"TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs (2017)"	386,995	69
Oct 24	Carson Wentz	134,027	78
Oct 25	"Alone Again, Natura-Diddily"	409,281	31
Oct 26	Fats Domino	219,173	62
Oct 27	Catalonia	393,764	54
Oct 28	Stranger Things	588,790	70
Oct 29	Stranger Things	624,870	72
Oct 30	Kevin Spacey	1,315,570	65
Oct 31	Halloween	996,893	67

November[edit]

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
Nov 1	Halloween	440,601	78
Nov 2	George Springer	328,474	83
Nov 3	Stranger Things	278,251	65
Nov 4	Thor: Ragnarok	315,475	73
Nov 5	Christopher Paul Neil	708,186	50
Nov 6	Stranger Things	289,372	63
Nov 7	Roy Halladay	518,115	67
Nov 8	Roy Halladay	645,824	73
Nov 9	Corey Haim	285,199	65
Nov 10	Louis C.K.	313,313	63
Nov 11	Anasuya Sarabhai	348,015	40
Nov 12	UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Pettis	225,073	63
Nov 13	Stranger Things	198,141	64
Nov 14	Hole punch	321,114	35
Nov 15	Cornelia Sorabji	481,653	39
Nov 16	Lil Peep	1,192,195	73
Nov 17	Justice League (film)	688,858	67
Nov 18	Malcolm Young	519,531	70
Nov 19	Manushi Chhillar	620,594	87
Nov 20	Charles Manson	1,697,521	69
Nov 21	Charles Manson	796,366	74
Nov 22	David Cassidy	911,521	66
Nov 23	Thanksgiving	436,788	65
Nov 24	Black Friday (shopping)	339,604	68
Nov 25	Interstellar (film)[31]	224,280	35
Nov 26	Starbucks	368,342	38
Nov 27	Meghan Markle	3,303,749	69
Nov 28		2,851,752	71
Nov 29		1,083,592	72
Nov 30	Matt Lauer	753,500	71

December[edit]

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
Dec 1	Meghan Markle	475,255	73
Dec 2	Meghan Markle	433,387	80
Dec 3	UFC 218	404,437	65
Dec 4	Shashi Kapoor	583,782	78
Dec 5	Shashi Kapoor	583,782	78
Dec 6	Israel	238,463	58
Dec 7	August Ames	419,848	72
Dec 8	A Way Out (video game)	568,844	11
Dec 9	Jester [32]	251,751	26
Dec 10	Robert Koch	392,551	53
Dec 11	Max Born	682,903	24
Dec 12	Anushka Sharma	447,072	85
Dec 13	Doug Jones (attorney)	422,232	59
Dec 14	Net neutrality	900,723	75
Dec 15	Net neutrality	1,107,059	84
Dec 16	Star Wars: The Last Jedi	657,392	70
Dec 17	Star Wars: The Last Jedi	568,261	70
Dec 18	Kim Jong-hyun (singer)	579,593	73
Dec 19	Kim Jong-hyun (singer)	428,696	68
Dec 20	Cosmopolitan (magazine)[33]	354,866	35
Dec 21	Winchester Model 1897 [34]	242,629	38
Dec 22	List of Twenty20 International records	372,227	90
Dec 23	Johannes Gumpp	580,285	54
Dec 24	Bright (film)	225,777	74
Dec 25	A Christmas Story	212,279	87
Dec 26	Boxing Day	587,113	78
Dec 27	Marlene Dietrich	559,288	34
Dec 28	Charles Lightoller [35]	229,668	20
Dec 29	David Choe [36]	314,124	34
Dec 30	Primate cognition [37]	256,494	26
Dec 31	UFC 219	433,873	69

Records[edit]

Most days at #1: It (2017 film), 9; Logan (film), 8
Most consecutive days at #1: It (2017 film), 8; Harvey Weinstein, 5
Highest single day views: Meghan Markle, 3,303,749; Hugh Hefner, 3,181,267
Longest gaps between #1 appearances: Charles Manson (following his hospitalization in January, and his death in November), Interstellar (film) (two separate r/TIL topics, in January and November)
Top 50 entries that topped at least one day: Donald Trump (#2), Game of Thrones (season 7) (#4), Meghan Markle (#5), 13 Reasons Why (#10), Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (#11), It (2017 film) (#12), Queen Victoria(#13), Gal Gadot (#15), Logan (film) (#16), Stranger Things (#19), Wonder Woman (2017 film) (#20), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (#22), Justice League (film) (#23), Barack Obama (#30), Conor McGregor (#33), Charles Manson (#34), Thor: Ragnarok (#39), Floyd Mayweather Jr. (#40), Spider-Man: Homecoming (#43), Ariana Grande (#46), Dunkirk (2017 film) (#47)

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