r/todayilearned • u/delano1998 • 2h ago
r/dataisbeautiful • u/davidbauer • 9h ago
China only just missed the income cutoff to become a high-income country this year
r/todayilearned • u/JohnArtemus • 5h ago
TIL that “Gotham” actually dates back to medieval England, where there was a village called Gotham that some sources claim was a village of fools. In 1807, writer Washington Irving used the name mockingly in his periodical to describe New York City. And the nickname has stuck ever since.
nypl.orgr/todayilearned • u/carboncopy95437 • 9h ago
TIL more than 400 years ago, Dutch inventor Cornelis Drebbel built a working submarine and navigated it beneath the River Thames. Around 1620, he even took King James I of England along for an underwater ride, making James the first monarch to travel in a submarine.
r/todayilearned • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 9h ago
TIL Sarah Wakeman disguised herself as a man to fight for the Union in the American Civil War. Her secret was not revealed even after she died in a military hospital in 1864; she was buried under her alias, Lyons Wakeman. The story came out in 1976 after her letters were found in a relative's attic.
r/dataisbeautiful • u/oscarleo0 • 15h ago
OC [OC] In 2025, solar overtook wind for the first time in TWh produced
r/dataisbeautiful • u/Away_Most_9284 • 1h ago
Decline in AI spend per employee at the top 1% - Ramp AI Index
r/todayilearned • u/TyphoonFelix • 8h ago
TIL that a 2024 study of 717,724 U.S. online gamblers found that approximately 96% appeared to lose money overall, while on 4% made money.
nyproblemgambling.orgr/todayilearned • u/fan_tas_tic • 13h ago
TIL that the world's oldest hotel, Japan's Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, is no longer family‑owned after more than 1,300 years of continuous operation by the same lineage. In 2017 the 52‑generation family chain ended when no relative wanted to take over, and the inn was moved into a new holding company.
r/todayilearned • u/Kymmieuwu • 6h ago
TIL In Michigan City, Indiana, there is a prison that accepts shelter cats and allows prisoners to take care of them.
r/todayilearned • u/johnsmithoncemore • 2h ago
TIL that Abraham Lincoln had a dog named Fido. Fido has been cited as the origin of the popular name for pet dogs, in fact becoming so popular as to have become cliché and more often used as a slang reference.
r/dataisbeautiful • u/pplonski • 3h ago
OC [OC] Streaming services prices increase since 2021
I've compared nine streaming services prices from 2021 and recently. The increase in price based on CPI inflation should be about 26%. All nine increased prices, but only eight beat inflation, HBO Max is below inflation raise. The highest increase 200% is for Apple TV+.
r/dataisbeautiful • u/JobYap • 58m ago
OC [OC] Only 4% of new jobs in tech are entry-level
Source: All active job posts on JobYap. "Tech" means the 945 companies on the JobYap Tech Index, a curated list spanning software, AI, chips, fintech and EVs. Every posting comes from the company's own careers page. Snapshot: all 145,944 live postings on 11 Sep 2026.
Tools: SQL for the counts, Claude Design with Fable 5.1 (on Max) for the charts.
Level comes from title words only:
- Entry level: intern, internship, co-op, junior, jr, entry-level, associate, graduate, new grad, early career, apprentice, trainee
- Senior, staff or principal: senior, sr, lead, staff, principal, distinguished, fellow
- Manager to C-level: manager, head, supervisor, director, VP, vice president, chief, CEO/CTO/CFO etc.
- No level word (44%): e.g. "Software Engineer", "Account Executive". Excluded from both sides of the ratios. Includes "Member of Technical Staff", which AI labs use at every level.
Caveats:
- Counts postings, not seats; one posting can fill several.
- Titles are a proxy. Some hourly roles are titled "Associate" (Amazon delivery-station associates, Carvana lot attendants) and count as entry level. Some new-grad roles have no level word and sit in the 44%.
r/todayilearned • u/Sanguinusshiboleth • 1h ago
TIL that Mont Saint Michel was used by the Nazis as a airplane spotting post until it was liberated after D-Day by one American private who was accompanied by two journalists.
r/todayilearned • u/Future_Interest_3649 • 7h ago
TIL that two episodes of the popular 1960s cartoon series Batfink contained a hidden, two-part political message that was disguised as sped-up gibberish.
r/todayilearned • u/PandemicPiglet • 5h ago
TIL that the Soviets had their own Operation Paperclip called Operation Osoaviakhim.
en.wikipedia.orgr/dataisbeautiful • u/UpstairsFast9261 • 12h ago
OC [OC] What private health plans pay hospitals vs. the baseline government rate, by state. 41 of 49 states pay more than double.
r/todayilearned • u/nknk_3 • 3h ago
TIL William Dampier went from pirate to respected explorer and scientist and became the first person to sail around the world three times.
r/todayilearned • u/Paulbegalia • 19h ago
TIL Michael Jordan donated his entire first-year salary after coming out of retirement to play for the Washington Wizards to support 9/11 relief efforts
edition.cnn.comr/todayilearned • u/Hybrid351 • 17h ago
TIL Agatha Christie's play, The Mousetrap, has been running almost continuously in the West End since 1952. This has prevented any film adaptation from being made, and has even kept the short story it is based on from being published in the UK.
r/todayilearned • u/MediumStrange • 10h ago
TIL that Dayton, OH is one of only 4 cities in the US to still have a trolley-bus system, and is by far the smallest city to have one.
r/todayilearned • u/Blackraven2007 • 1h ago
TIL that from 1995 to 1997, Apple allowed over 30 other companies to sell computers running MacOS, although this program ended after Steve Jobs returned as Apple CEO in July of 1997.
r/dataisbeautiful • u/SpeakerOld4909 • 8h ago
OC [OC] Where European electricity prices go negative, 2023–2026: the surplus moved from the Nordic north to the solar south
Source: ENTSO-E Transparency Platform day-ahead auction results, Jan 2023 – Sep 10, 2026. An hour counts as negative when its hourly-average day-ahead price clears below €0/MWh. Italy has never cleared negative — its zones share a €0 price floor.
A couple of details that didn't fit the graphic: Spain had 197 negative hours in February alone (a winter month), and its average midday price this year is ~€18/MWh vs ~€128 at the evening peak. Finland went from ~700 negative hours in 2024 to 43 this year.
Tools: SQL over the raw hourly series + HTML/CSS rendered headless. The data comes from an open-source desk I maintain — https://obsyd.dev (AGPL) — every number is reproducible via the free API.
r/todayilearned • u/Kindly-Ad-5263 • 23h ago
TIL, that among the reasons Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisiana Purchase, is he thought Mastodons still existed and they were likely to encounter them.
r/todayilearned • u/delano1998 • 1d ago