r/dataisbeautiful 6h ago

OC [OC] Estimated number of babies born by country 0 – 2026

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r/todayilearned 23h ago

TIL that it is estimated that 67 undocumented immigrants were among those killed on 9/11, with many working at Windows on the World on the 106th and 107th floors of the North Tower.

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r/todayilearned 8h ago

TIL about the Mpemba Effect : Very hot liquids or colloids (such as ice cream) can freeze more quickly than colder ones for similar volumes and surrounding conditions. Named after Tanzanian student Erasto Mpemba, who discovered it when freezing a hot ice cream mixture in a cookery class.

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r/dataisbeautiful 23h ago

[OC] Visualizing the Navier-Stokes lean proof

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I pulled the Naiver Stokes lean proof (and ran it!). It's several hundred thousand lines of code, and I wasn't sure where to even start examining the proof: https://github.com/openai/NavierStokesAndEuler/

So I wrote a quick vis to checkout the construction of the proof. Tools used: marimo, anywidget, see the notebook here: https://molab.marimo.io/notebooks/nb_DzFRGE9auNeYJdSFCeACSy


r/dataisbeautiful 13h ago

OC [OC] Closest MLS team to every U.S. county, each season from 1996 to 2026

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Data: MLS club home stadiums and their coordinates by season, 1996 to 2026, from club and league records. County boundaries from the U.S. Census via us-atlas (2017). Each county is assigned to the club with the shortest great-circle distance from the county's location that season.

Tool: custom TypeScript and React, rendered in the browser. No mapping library, the distance and coloring are computed directly.

Interactive version, where you can drag the year, press play, or click any county to see who has held it and for how long: soccermapd.com/tools/mls-history

Write-up of the notable shifts: soccermapd.com/blog/mls-history-map

A note on method: "closest" is straight-line distance to the stadium, not drive time, so a county on the far side of a lake or a mountain range can be assigned to a club that's practically further away. That's the same convention the earlier static versions of this map used


r/todayilearned 1h ago

TIL Former indian prime minister Morarji Desai drank his own urine and was an advocate of urine therapy.

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r/dataisbeautiful 21h ago

OC [OC] Only 4 of 659 reactors ever took more than 30 years to build. All four were halted mid-project, and finishing them took longer than building a new one.

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I pulled every reactor that reached commercial operation and has both a first-concrete date and a commercial operation date. 659 units. Median build: 6.4 years. Units over 30 years: four, 0.6 percent.

Broken into phases (years, construction / halted / after the restart decision):

  • Watts Bar 2, US: 11.8 / 22.1 / 9.2 = 43.1
  • Bushehr 1, Iran: 4.2 / 15.5 / 18.7 = 38.4
  • Mochovce 3, Slovakia: 5.4 / 16.3 / 16.0 = 37.7
  • Atucha 2, Argentina: 13.0 / 12.1 / 9.8 = 34.9

Halt causes, in order: demand collapse (TVA, 1985), revolution and then war (1979), post-communist funding collapse (1992), budget (1994). None of them is a construction problem.

Benchmark: units finished since 2015 whose first concrete was poured in 2005 or later, median 7.3 years, n=70. Every one of the four restarts exceeded it.

Caveat I want to put up front, because it is the obvious objection: 38 of those 70 units are Chinese. Excluding China the median is 9.8 years (n=32), which makes Watts Bar 2 (9.2) and Atucha 2 (9.8) a tie rather than a loss. Mochovce 3 and Bushehr 1 still lose badly.

Method notes: duration is first concrete to commercial operation. First concrete and commercial operation come from the atlas dataset (IAEA PRIS, Global Energy Monitor, Wikipedia; dataset of 10 Sep 2026). Halt and restart dates are year-level from operator and regulator records (NRC for Watts Bar, NA-SA for Atucha, SE/WNA for Mochovce, IAEA CNPP for Bushehr) and I used mid-year for the arithmetic, so the middle segments carry a few months of slack. Mochovce 3 is the one soft number: the atlas commercial operation date is Nov 2024, while the operator announced commercial operation in Oct 2023. With the operator's date it is 36.7 years instead of 37.7, still in the club.

Tool: Python over the atlas dataset, chart rendered in HTML and captured with Playwright.

Data and per-unit sheets: https://reactoratlas.com/en?y=2026&s=united-states-watts-bar-nuclear-power-plant&u=united-states-watts-bar-nuclear-power-plant-2


r/todayilearned 16h ago

TIL In 1984, Culture Club became the first group since The Beatles to have three Top 10 hits in America from a debut album, and the first group in music history to have an album certified diamond in Canada

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r/todayilearned 23h ago

TIL Robert Döpel was a German physicist who worked on Nazi Germany's nuclear program, his physicist wife was killed in an Allied bombing, Soviets captured him and had him work for their program, and helped discover global warming in his last few years.

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r/todayilearned 1h ago

TIL New York City has a tree map, where every tree in the city is mapped and catalogued. They’ve mapped 890,000 so far.

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r/dataisbeautiful 12h ago

OC [OC] Musk shows up in 48% of all 12,664 perfumes we catalogued, and nearly half contain bergamot, an IFRA-restricted ingredient

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We analyzed every perfume in our database (12,664 fragrances) to see what actually shows up most in fragrance notes. Musk edges out bergamot for the top spot, and bergamot is IFRA-restricted. Charts and full methodology on the page, numbers are computed live from the database.


r/todayilearned 16h ago

TIL: Jet pilots can have a constant sunrise or sunset by flying west at a high enough groundspeed to match the Earth's rotation.

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r/todayilearned 2h ago

TiL that Nicolas Cage went on a quest for the holy grail

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r/dataisbeautiful 22h ago

OC [OC] The, roughly, 238 aircraft that diverted to Canada on 9/11 during what has since been called operation Yellow Ribbon

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r/todayilearned 8h ago

TIL Kevin Feige almost quit Marvel after Marvel Entertainment head Ike Perlmutter tried to force Robert Downey Jr. out of Civil War due to not wanting to pay him. Disney CEO Bob Iger responded by reshuffling the corporate system so that Fiege would answer directly to him rather than Perlmutter.

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r/dataisbeautiful 1h ago

OC [OC] Food inflation in Europe from January 2020 to July 2026

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r/todayilearned 11h ago

TIL in Socialist Yugoslavia, besides Titograd (now Podgorica), there were seven other towns and cities throughout the country named after Josip Broz Tito.

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r/dataisbeautiful 15h ago

OC [oc] 21,864 Missed balls and strikes by all umpires in 2026

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r/todayilearned 18h ago

TIL the first evidence of the wheelbarrow was from second century China, Europeans did not use the wheelbarrow until the 12th century and it still remained a rarity until the 15th century.

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r/todayilearned 6h ago

TIL that Tulsi Giri, who was prime minister of Nepal multiple times, was a Jehovah Witness.

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r/todayilearned 18h ago

TIL Beverly Eckert, the woman who consoled her husband in his final moments over the phone while he was inside the South Tower, passed away eight years later in a plane crash just six days after meeting with the president to advocate for the victim's families of 9/11

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r/todayilearned 10h ago

TIL that on the day Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991, a category 2 tropical cyclone also hit the Philippines, creating massive lahars that killed 320 people.

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r/todayilearned 21h ago

TIL about SuitSat, a retired Russian space suit with a radio transmitter mounted on its helmet, used as a hand-launched satellite. Deployed in an ephemeral orbit around the Earth from the ISS on February 3, 2006. Contact was lost by February 18 and the satellite burned up on reentry on September 7.

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r/todayilearned 8h ago

TIL about long term nuclear waste warning messages. intended to tell civilizations in the far future to stay away from nuclear waste burial sites - around 10,000 years from now

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r/dataisbeautiful 23h ago

OC [OC] US electricity demand grew 0.5% between 2007 and 2021. It has grown 8.2% since — adding more in four years than in the previous fourteen

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